Farmer receives three figure compensation after waste dumped in Reculver field
A Herne Bay man who dumped waste in a farmer’s field in Reculver has pleaded guilty to the offence in court and must pay £500 compensation to the farmer, following…
Work to begin next week on Folkestone’s Folca building
Works to bring the Folca building in Folkestone back into use are due to start next week from Monday 6 March. Folca will be separated into two parts: the Edwardian…
Folkestone and Hythe MP ‘reassured’ Saga is planning to move back to district in near future
Constituency matters… a weekly column by the Member of Parliament for Folkestone and Hythe, Damian Collins 2 March 2023 ‘Poor’ water quality on bathing beach On 1 March I met…
Don’t mix up your recycling or lorry loads will end up in landfill warns council
Folkestone & Hythe District Council has launched a new campaign aimed at preventing loads of recycling being lost when the wrong items are put in bins. The Don’t Let Your…
These Boots are made for Walking!
Photo: Maidstone Borough Council Booking is now open for Maidstone’s Heart of Kent Walking Festival, taking place between Friday 24 March to Sunday 2 April. The festival is run by…
Dover cleans up at national Keep Britain Tidy Awards!
Andrezj Kluczynski and Cllr Martin Bates from DDC receive the Great British Spring Clean Award from Stacey Lovering of sponsors, Helping Hand Environmental Dover District Council (DDC) has won the…
Veolia waste contract in Folkestone and Hythe sees 5% drop in carbon emissions
A 5% drop in carbon emissions by the district’s waste operator has been welcomed by Folkestone & Hythe District Council. As part of its contract with the council, Veolia had…
Dover putting Greens to the fore with The Open golf Legacy Fund
Sir Roger Manwood’s students held a presentation evening in December to update guests on their Solar for Manwood’s’ project success Students are being congratulated and news is being welcomed that…
School’s imaginative green project has countywide potential
Rory Love and Langton Girls’ Grammar students School pupils across the county are being encouraged to take part in a wide range of ecology and environment lessons thanks to an…
Huge impact of fly-tipping across Kent and South East
Newly-released figures from Defra show that there were more than a million incidents of fly-tipping on public land in the last year – and more than 100,000 in the South…