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16th December 2016Golding Homes scoops design award
Golding Homes has won an award for its Wallis Fields Regeneration Scheme in Park Woodat the Kent Design and Developments Awards ceremony held at County Hall, Maidstone. The awards, ...
16th December 2016Multi-million pounds contract to build new M20 junction
A contract to builda new junction on the M20 has been awarded to Vinci, Highways England has confirmed. A new junction – junction 10a - is proposed approximately 700 metres east of the ...
PM backs MP Helen Whately's campaign on illegally parked lorries
PRIME Minister Theresa May has backed MP Helen Whately'scampaign over antisocial and illegal HGV parking which has blighted Kent for years. The PM gave unequivocal backing to the Mid ...
Royal Mail site to become parking spaces for council workers
Part of the siteof the former Royal Mail sorting office in central Maidstone is to become a car park for council workers. The area bought by Kent County Council (KCC) and Maidstone Borough ...
Maidstone's red phone boxes face removal
EIGHTEEN classic red telephone boxes in Maidstone could be lost after a 90% decline in their use in the past decade. Communications giant BT has launched review into 430 of the 1,165 phone boxes ...
Ann Widdecombe: toughen up on prisons and prisoners
FORMER Maidstone MP Ann Widdecombe says prisoners in Britain’s drug-riddled jails should be made to work all week and be subject to daily drug-testing. The former shadow prisons minister ...
M20: Warning of delays this weekend for works
Motorists are being warned of possible delays to journeys this weekend on the M20 as works to junction 4 continue, according to Highways England. A lane closure and speed limits will be ...
M20 SERVICES: Digging a trench to prevent travellers returning
Workmen using a digger excavate a trench just days after a month-long occupation by travellers ofa patch of grass at the M20 Roadchef service station at junction 8 for Leeds Castle Now days ...
LATEST: M20 work could cause delays to journeys
Highways England has announced a series of works on the M20 which could cause delays to journeys. They are: M20 junctions 4 to 9, Kent: motorway improvement work Work to improve journeys by ...
Village primary school receives GOOD Ofsted report
LEEDS and Broomfield Primary School has been rated “good” by education inspectors Ofsted. The Church of England school was inspected on October 19 and 20. The result follows years ...