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20 Most Recent News Stories
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Mon 15th Feb 2010
It is a stretch to refer to the latest ideas to manage Whitstable's traffic as a 'plan'. There are significant flaws, as the ideas have yet to be developed into a workable scheme. Even at this early stage, the best estimate of the costs is £2 million. KCC admits there is no money in the budget to fund these ideas.
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Read "Whitstable One-way? Letter to Editor of Whitstable Gazette" in full
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Thu 11th Feb 2010
Conservative-controlled Canterbury City Council has announced plans to close the Roman Museum and the Westgate Towers Museum in Canterbury.
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Read "Save Canterbury Museums " in full
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Mon 18th Jan 2010
There are over 4,400 empty properties across the Canterbury City Council area which are no longer used as homes but can be brought back into use with some investment. Under Liberal Democrat proposals, people who own these homes will get a grant or a cheap loan to renovate them so they can be used: grants if the home is for social housing, loans for private use.
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Read "4,400 empty houses should be brought back into use" in full
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Mon 18th Jan 2010
Doctors working in the East Kent Hospitals University NHS Foundation Trust earned over £250,000 last year in so called 'ash cash' payments made by grieving families, figures released today by the Liberal Democrats have revealed. The payment is made to doctors to sign a form releasing a body for cremation. Last year payments were made on 1,815 occasions in East Kent.
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Read "Local doctors receive £250,000 in 'ash cash' payments " in full
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Thu 7th Jan 2010
The city council has set out its vision for the future of the district in its Core Strategy Options Report. The council's strategy lacks imagination. At the moment, the council's strategy suggests building thousands of new houses on green field sites to the south of Canterbury, on land highlighted as an Area of High Landscape Value. If concreted over, this landscape will be lost forever. There will be other problems too - for example, it will make congestion around the city centre worse.
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Read "Letter to Editor of Kentish Gazette" in full
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Fri 1st Jan 2010
Canterbury City Council's controversial plans to build a £5m football hub at Ridlands Farm off South Canterbury Road have still not been made public. Originally these were to have been out for public consultation in the autumn.
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Read "Dithering and secrecy over the football hub" in full
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Fri 11th Dec 2009
The Council appear to have deliberately misled the public over the extent of cuts in local services needed to balance the books. A Government grant INCREASE this year means there is actually no need for museums and toilets to close.
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Read "Council Budget 'cover Up' Exposed" in full
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Thu 3rd Dec 2009
David Cameron's Tory MEPs have launched a last minute attempt to scupper the EU's Copenhagen position of cutting carbon emissions and increasing climate change aid for developing countries.
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Read "Green or a Deeper Shade of Blue?" in full
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Sat 28th Nov 2009
Canterbury City Council has put off any decision to cut its carbon footprint until next year. At the council meeting last Thursday a motion was put by Lib Dem Cllr Nick Eden-Green to join hundreds of other organisations who have signed up to a 10:10 commitment. This is a national campaign to cut CO2 emissions by 10% in 2010.
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Read "Will Canterbury cut carbon?" in full
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Sat 10th Oct 2009
The church council in Kingston were told that their ancient flint wall along the churchyard was in danger of collapse. Attempts had been made to repair it, but it needed a complete rebuild at a huge cost of £20,000!
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Read "St Giles, Kingston" in full
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Wed 7th Oct 2009
Adisham residents are working on plans for a new village hall. Martin Vye attended the first meetings of the committee formed to take this forward. School leadership, village hall committee, and the parish council have come together to find a solution.
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Read "New Adisham Village Hall?" in full
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