Before the school summer holidays, residents in Ashdown Close had been suffering a large number of ASB incidents. These were all related to secondary school children from the Oakwood Campus and ranged from general nuisance and litter dropping incidents up to criminal damage. Cllr’s Dan Daley, Peter Hooper, David Pickett along with myself have had […]

Lack of posts have been due to an overloaded schedule this past week. Four Council meetings, a few campaign literature meetings, a PTA disco (for which I’m treasurer) to help with arranging, a ‘Morsbag’ making session, attempting to arrange kids Christening, general kids taxi service, full-time mum and a fair few constituent problems cropped up this […]

Following the sad death of Corporal Ivano Violino after just 16 days in Afghanistan, a fundraising event for the 36 Royal Engineers Benelovent Fund was held today. Six teams of six people took part in a sports challenge event in the Mall Chequers. Each team raised a minimum of £500 to take part and a tombola […]

Coriander Drive  Case opened 18th Sep ’07 – Lamp posts have been placed around the shops on the Oakwood Hospital estate without proper consultation with neighbours. I am investigating the possiblitiy of having them moved. Update – 25th Sep ’07 – Have confirmed that these are not Kent County Council lamp posts and have been […]

  Today saw the start of Brunswick House Primary School joining the “Walk On Wednesday” scheme. At it’s simplest, the idea is that pupils walk to and from school on Wednesdays. My kids couldn’t wait, as you get a sticker every time you walk. After so many stickers, you get a certificate. It’s a well known […]

I’m feeling really sorry for myself today. I’ve come down with tonsillitis, which I get really often. I’m already on penicillin for an unrelated thing, and top it all off, I’ve got a headache. To cut a long story short, Rachael’s going to write todays post… Today was a grat day. I had Frech-club computr-club […]

Have just been sent a link about Hebden Bridge, a town that’s just made become free from plastic bags. More information can be found here: http://www.hebdenbridge.co.uk/news/news07/59.html One of the initiatives I particularly liked, was a session organised in the town with material and sewing machines, which gave people the chance to make their own reusable […]

Cllr. Tony Harwood (Cabinet Member for Environment – Maidstone Borough) is keen to see the practise of shops giving out carrier bags stopped, and instead replaced with a reuseable “Maidstone bag”. Following some publicity in the papers with this, Pat Fyfe contacted all Borough Councillors to bring to our attention the “Mors bag” concept and […]

No point carrying on sulking – it’s not like it’ll achieve anything. I’m going to make a bag. Update tomorrow.

The KM didn’t print my letter… again… Have given away said paper to friend Lisa whose daughter Katy did get a mention!