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Showing posts with label Kent. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Kent. Show all posts
Saturday, 3 May 2025

Over and Out

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It’s pretty old news now, but worth summarising yesterday’s Kent County Council election results. The pace of events yesterday left no time ...
Wednesday, 30 April 2025

Vote Conservative on Thursday 1 May

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Vote for your local Conservative candidate in tomorrow (Thursday’s) election to Kent County Council. There’s a lot at stake.  FACT: Across t...
Wednesday, 5 February 2025

Devolution - but NOT for Kent and Medway

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The government announced today that a number of areas have been taken forward for the Devolution Priority Programme (DPP) set out in the En...
Saturday, 12 October 2024

EES: a welcome delay

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It has been the week of two delays. The first - that of a decision on Lower Thames Crossing until next May - which came on Monday, was deepl...
Monday, 29 July 2024

Kent Leaders warn on EES

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The European Entry Exit System (EES), the new external frontier of the European Union, comes into force in the autumn. The expected date of ...
Thursday, 20 July 2023

New nuclear: the case for Dungeness

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I’m a bit behind with this, but on Monday the Minister for Nuclear and Networks Andrew Bowie visited Dungeness and we had a tremendous oppor...
Friday, 24 February 2023

Kent Stands with Ukraine on invasion anniversary

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Today Kent County Council, like so many organisations, communities and individuals across the country, marked the anniversary of the Russian...
Thursday, 19 January 2023

Levelling Up Fund: good news for Kent

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This morning the Department of Levelling Up, Homes and Communities (DLUHC) announced awards under round 2 of the Levelling Up Fund - and it ...
Saturday, 31 December 2022

From 2022 to 2023

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I am conscious that, for a time in October-November, I posted relatively little. This was not because there was little going on, but that th...
Saturday, 10 September 2022

Her Majesty the Queen: Book of Condolences and Proclamation of King Charles III

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It is hard to find the right words to respond to the death of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II - especially when so much has been said so well...
Saturday, 12 March 2022

Hosting Lord Deben: Kent and Climate Change

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Earlier in the week - and it has been a long and busy one - we at KCC hosted Lord Deben (formerly the Cabinet Minister John Gummer), chairma...
Friday, 25 February 2022

Brompton Bicycle investment: good news for Ashford and for Kent

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Brompton Bicycle, the UK’s largest bicycle manufacturer, announced this morning its commitment to a new factory and HQ in Ashford, with inve...
Friday, 31 December 2021

Looking towards 2022

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As 2021 ends, Covid - in particular, through the Omicron variant - remains a major factor in our lives. Yet we are, through the vaccination ...
Tuesday, 8 June 2021

Asylum seeking children: Kent under pressure (again)

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Once more, Kent faces big challenges reflecting the large scale arrival of unaccompanied under 18s claiming asylum - unaccompanied asylum se...
Tuesday, 5 January 2021

2021 begins: Schools, testing sites and lockdown again

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Happy 2021. It’s over a fortnight - embracing Christmas and the New Year - since I last posted. There’s been a lot since then that I’ve just...
Sunday, 20 December 2020

Now, Tier 4

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Yesterday’s government announcement that Kent, along with London and much of the south east, was due to enter (from midnight last night) a n...
Thursday, 17 December 2020

Taking the Test

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  This morning Andrew Scott-Clark, KCC’s Director of Public Health and I attended the site (Sheerness Working Men’s Club in Halfway on the I...
Thursday, 26 November 2020

Kent in Tier 3

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Today’s government announcement that Kent as a whole is being placed in Tier 3, the highest level of Covid-19 restrictions, comes as a seve...