Kent on Sunday (North & West), January 17, 2015

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www.kentnews.co.uk January 18, 2015 W E E K L Y F R E E N E W S P A P E R O F T H E Y E A R North&West edition No 643
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WEATHER
Snow joke - it’s
going to get cold
After the wind and the rain,
temperatures are set to drop
TRANSPORT
Southeastern boss on
DEVELOPMENT London Bridge work
Paramount
We speak to chief as commuters
face headache at terminal
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Who will be the Gills’
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Snow joke for our A&Es
if county turns white
WHEN you’re young, snow repre- serviced when the sun was out.
sents all that is best with Mother But after barely a flake last year,
Nature. the forecast suggests if we don’t get
It was her little gift to pick up our some this weekend, it may be just
spirits as we struggled through around the corner. PAGE
winter and continued to mourn the Which, given the strain recently on 27 »
passing of Christmas. our A&E hospital departments, it
The crisp crunch under foot, the seems almost inevitable that by
brilliant whiteness which seemed to adding to high demand a host of
soften all the every day noise, and people who received an icy snowball
the exquisite beauty of tumbling on their hooter or slipped over and
snow flakes falling thick and fast. It broke their ankle on an uncleared
was a wonderous sight to behold. Not driveway, there will be another crisis.
to mention the delight of snowballs So far, our hospitals in Kent have coped
and snowmen. well with the increased demand, but
Throw in a day off school and the prospect of snow and ice is
life rarely got better. unlikely to ignite the same delight PAGE PAGE
Today, however, while the for the local NHS staff as it does 11 » 47 »
child in me still cannot school children. Inside we speak
suppress a shiver of excite- to staff about how they’re coped
ment at the sight of a blanket so far and what the root of the
of snow falling, the reality of spike could be.
adulthood means it’s hard not So keep warm, stay safe, don’t PAGE
to see past the issue of go to A&E unless it’s a 29 »
having to drive on genuine emergency,
ice-caked roads or and make sure you
rue the decision have a great
not to get the car Editor Chris Britcher weekend.
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night, and the M20 between many roads found themselves under Thursday night. some wintry showers.
Maidstone and Ashford turned into water. Areas around Ashford were Crews were called to Selling A spokesman said the forecast
v s a giant lorry park until Thursday particularly affected - including key Road, between Neames Forstal and for the next few days was cold, with
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Congestion on the A-roads Faversham and Canterbury. become stuck with water up to the periods.
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li Meanwhile, on the rails, a lorry flooding last winter, was also once Now, after the rain and wind, the Sunday, perhaps with some
d struck a bridge at Chestfield which again bracing itself for trouble, Met Office says we can expect to see prolonged snow for a time. There
a caused the Faversham line to be with a flood warning on Friday. what has been a relatively mild spell will be widespread overnight
e e closed on Thursday morning. Near Faversham, a woman and turn chilly as temperatures drop. frosts, locally severe,” he added.
h The Environment Agency issued two children had to be rescued by With the wind chill factor, it says For all the latest see www.
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HUNDREDS of drivers on the M25 the gantry devices use digital
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cameras since their introduction separate lanes at the same time -
A FATHER who had to call fire crews Firefighters treated Mr Stockdale for just two months ago. traditional cameras can only be
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charging at his home exploded and KFRS community safety manager, drivers speeding. Some 520 were Known as the Highways Agency
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o has spoken of his terror. Year’s resolution is to quit smoking rest were exceeding variable System, they have been in
t Mark Stockdale, from Teynham, and you’re using an e-cigarette to speed limits on the stretch. operation between junctions five
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had been charging the cigarette in help you, please make sure you know Unlike traditional speed cameras, and six of the motorway.
his children’s bedroom when the how to charge it safely.”
drama occured. It left him with The warning comes a month after a
burns to his fingers and palm, as well house fire in Sheerness was thought No challenge to sentence of
» Download your free as igniting his home. to have been started by an e-cigarette
He said: “I can’t believe how lucky being charged incorrectly. On that
Kent News iPhone I was. It had only been on charge occasion, the blaze caused severe teacher who had sex with pupil
and iPad App available about 10 minutes, when I heard a damage to a bedroom and extensive
swooshing noise. The next minute it smoke damage to the upstairs of a
at the Apple App Store exploded in my hand, shooting home in Alexandra Road.
flames across the room and setting Mr Smith added: “You might save AN 18-MONTH suspended A spokesperson for the Attorney
the bedding alight. a few pounds if you buy cheap or sentence for a teacher who had sex General said: “We carefully
“I dread to think what could have incompatible chargers but is it really with a 16-year-old schoolgirl will considered whether the sentence
happened if I’d left it charging and gone worth putting your family or home not be investigated by the Attorney could be referred to the Court of
» Follow us on out or if we’d been asleep. It could’ve at risk? General’s office, it was confirmed Appeal for being too low – as part
killed us and gutted our home.” “If your e-cigarette doesn’t come on Thursday. of the ‘unduly lenient sentence
Twitter @kosmedia or Kent Fire and Rescue Service with a charger, please don’t assume Stuart Kerner, 44, from Aylesford, scheme’.
Facebook KOS Media (KFRS) was called to the bungalow that your USB cables can be trans- received the sentence for two counts “Kerner’s crimes are not
in London Road last Friday after- ferred between devices. Chargers for of sexual activity with a child by a included in this scheme, meaning
noon, January 9, just after 2.30pm mobile phones are often more person in a position of trust while the law officers are unable to refer
and found the fire was already out. powerful, so can overheat.” working at Bexleyheath Academy. this.”
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a creation the Pub Landlord - confirmed he is to stand Kingdom Park, or FUKP for short.
p against Nigel Farage in Thanet at May’s general election. Manifesto pledges include bricking up the Channel
Mr Farage is hoping to win the South Thanet seat for Tunnel and lowering the cost of beer to just 1p a pint.

e Ukip after it is vacated by Tory Laura Sandys. The 46-year-old said: “It seems to me that the UK is
h But he will be challenged by a comic whose ready for a bloke waving a pint around, offering
a no-nonsense character is based upon a love of all common sense solutions.
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PLANS for the £2 billion London will allow plans to progress as during the London 2012 Olympic Games.
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Paramount entertainment complex planned. He was also minister for the Middle
took a stride forward this week as David Testa, executive director of East, North Africa and counter terror-
v s the owner of the land signed a deal to LRCH said: “It further underlies our ism, getting involved in the Middle East
e sell it to the park’s developer. commitment to delivering the peace process.
The multi-million pound deal will project and is welcome news as we He said: “It has been a huge privilege
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li works site, once the biggest in the the local Dartford and Gravesham past decade and a half.
d UK until it closed in 1993, on the communities living near the site and “I am very grateful for the hard work
a Swanscombe peninsula sold by La- more widely with our interested par- and support of the many friends in my
e e farge Tarmac to London Resort ties.” association who enabled me, firstly, to
h Company Holdings (LRCH), the Two stages of public consultation win my seat in 2001 and then to double
company driving forward with de- have been held by LRCH to date, in- my majority twice in 2005 and 2010.”

e velopment of the park. volving over 4,000 members of the “As a minister, I was fortunate to have
h Expected to ultimately become Kent community. A further two fur- two very different jobs, both of which I
t one of the biggest parks of its kind in ther stages of consultation are enjoyed enormously,” he said.
s e Europe, the resort will feature, if all planned before LRCH intends to sub- “However, having reached my 52nd
goes to plan, a major theme park, mit a draft development consent or- birthday and with five year Parliaments
d more than 5,000 hotel rooms, and PLANS: How park will look der in autumn 2015. It is hoped to now part of the political landscape, this
a major entertainment facilities such open by Easter 2020. is realistically the last opportunity to
m as venues and conferencing. amount will give it access to a range See our website www.kentnews. move on and pursue a new career
It is expected to generate some of major brands such as Star Trek, co.uk to see our essential guide to outside of Parliament.
h 27,000 new jobs, and would attract Titanic and Mission: Impossible. the Paramount London resort and “Both David Cameron and the
around 50,000 visitors a day. A li- The land straddles Dartford and all the latest news or go direct - Conservative Party will continue to
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The RSPCA is appealing for information after a UKIP leader Nigel Farage has written an explosive COUNTRYSIDE campaigners are warning that
tabby cat took a walk on the wild side, strolling new book which promises to reveal how the party proposals submitted for 580 new homes off Swan-
past a firing range and into a police training has been stealthily trying to poach MPs from other stree Avenue in Sittingbourne would cause severe
centre in Gravesend. parties. damage to the countryside.
» Download your free The adult tabby and white male cat was spotted Independent publisher Biteback, run by Pembury- CPRE Kent - the county branch of the Campaign to
at the centre in Mark Lane last Thursday and based political expert and radio presenter Iain Dale, will Protect Rural England - says that the scheme would
Kent News iPhone quickly made himself at home with the security be publishing The Purple Revolution: The Year That be a disaster for the countryside - designated as a
and iPad App available guards at the gatehouse for a few days. Changed Everything in March. The company has also Special Landscape Area.
Staff fed him and cared for him as they tried to published Mr Farage’s autobiography, Flying Free. The proposal would see land developed between
at the Apple App Store find an owner. Mr Dale said: “We know people are desperate to Sittingbourne and Rodmersham Green - an area
It is currently a bit of a mystery where the cat learn more about Nigel Farage as a man and what he described by those against the plans as “a vital green gap”.
came from, as the centre is in a remote area far stands for. This is a book that could influence the The plans have been submitted by Gladman
from any homes. outcome of the election.” Developments Ltd and will be considered by Swale
Leanne Ferguson, security team leader, said: The publisher says the book tells “the untold story Borough Council over the coming weeks.
» Follow us on “We’re so far out here I just have no idea where he of the journey Ukip has travelled under Farage’s Senior planner for CPRE Kent, Brian Lloyd, said:
came from.” leadership, from the icy fringes of British politics all “This is an attempt by the developer to undermine
Twitter @kosmedia or Ms Ferguson took the cat, thought to be around the way to Westminster, where it is poised to claim the the new Swale Local Plan by seeking to get planning
Facebook KOS Media two or three years old, to a vet on Monday. popular vote. permission for a greenfield site that has been rejected
The RSPCA were called and the cat, who is in Mr Farage, who lives in Westerham, will be by the council in its new plan.
good health, is being looked after by them until competing to win the South Thanet seat at the May “There is no justification for giving up precious
his owner can be traced. general election. high quality land for development.”
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agenda
What will make next week’s headlines…
KCC to discuss budget RSPB gets set for annual
Big Garden Birdwatch
challenge for 2015/16
THE RSPB’s annual Big Garden The survey gives the charity
KENT County Council chiefs will county’s books after yet another Birdwatch returns next a snapshot of the health of the
examine the proposed draft budget round of deep cuts from central weekend. nation’s bird population.
for 2015/16 and plot their medium government. Last year around 500,000 For the second year running
term financial plan at County Hall The committee will take on people took part across the UK, the RSPB is also asking
this week. board issues raised during the February 12. tasked with simply monitoring participants to share details of
The growth, economic develop- budget consultation. It will then Savings of £96 million are and recording all the birds they what other wildlife they see
ment and communities cabinet make recommendations ahead of needed this year alone - on top of saw in their back garden over a outside.
committee meets on Thursday the cabinet meeting on January 28 £269m shaved off its budgets by one-hour period over the Find out how to register at
faced with the task of balancing the and a meeting of full council on Whitehall over the last three years. weekend. www.rspb.org.uk/birdwatch.
…also
Castle’s hedge laying No police Unison strike TV drama films here CCG agenda available
SISSINGHURST Castle’s popular hedge KENT Police staff will not be involved in a PENSHURST Place and Dover Castle can THE first meeting of the year of NHS
laying course returns later this month. 24-hour strike on Friday in an on-going be spotted in a new TV drama on Wednes- Dartford, Gravesham and Swanley CCG’s
The all-day course runs from 9.30am to row over pay. day after scenes were shot on location. governing body takes place on January 27.
4pm on January 30 and will provide those Union Unison has called out its members They feature in the six-part Wolf Hall The agenda can be downloaded from
attending with all the information to help across England and Wales. It does not about Thomas Cromwell’s meteoric rise in Tuesday by visiting the website dartford-
make the perfect hedge. include officers. the Tudor court. It’s on at 9pm. gravesendswanleyccg.nhs.uk.
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Funding cuts
hit grammar
schools hard
By Maria Chiorando worse hit because their proportion-
[email protected] ally larger sixth form sizes mean the
cuts will have a bigger impact, as
funding for under-16s is more gener-
A
-LEVEL subjects like lan- ous, giving the schools less opportu-
guages, music and even nity to reallocate budgets.”
physics could become a For this reason, non-selective
thing of the past in schools with large sixth forms would
grammar schools be- also suffer.
cause of funding cuts made to educa- On top of this, grammar schools
tion providers, according to experts. are unlikely to benefit for the extra
Reforms made to the 16 to 19-year- funding available for students with
old funding formula means that sixth low prior attainment or deprivation.
forms are now paid per student rath- David Anderson is the head teacher
er than per subject taught, and these of Queen Elizabeth’s Grammar School called ‘posh pupil premium’, where Peter Read, who is now an education this one in particular, I think the
cuts mean that students could also in Faversham, and a committee mem- students who have attained all grade advisor, waded into the debate, de- consequences are very visible. I
face bigger class sizes of up to 30 stu- ber of the Kent and Medway Grammar B or above at GCSE, could be awarded scribing the cuts as “dreadful”. He would hate to have to choose which
dents and less teaching staff. Schools Heads’ Association. an additional £400-£800 funding in said: “It is minority subjects that will bits of funding to cut myself though.”
Damian Green, MP for Ashford has He said: “The association did a order to study an extra A-level, a pol- suffer, as if there are less than 12 stu- A Department of Education spokes-
claimed that it is grammar schools survey, and found out that these cuts icy that would almost certainly ben- dents taking a course, it will no long- man said: “We have protected the
that are “appallingly affected by the are having an impact across all efit grammar schools. er be financially viable to run. schools’ budget in real terms - allow-
unfairnesses in the funding system”, a grammar schools. We have seen However, according to Mr Ander- “Subjects such as English and ing us to ensure all councils are re-
sentiment echoed by fellow Tory, funding cuts from £5,010 per student son this premium does not actually maths will be ok, but subjects like ceiving the same amount per pupil as
Dartford MP Gareth Johnson. to £4,300, and this is set to drop to exist yet, and is currently just an idea languages, and even physics could in 2010. It is down to councils to de-
Speaking to KoS, Mr Johnson said: around £4,000. These issues are that is being discussed. bite the dust - it would be a tragedy as termine exactly how that funding is
“Unintended consequences mean across the board, and we are con- He said: “We are all in a position we need these subjects. given to individual schools, but we
there is a disproportionate impact on cerned that in the future, some gram- where we are finding budgets are “Those in charge of education poli- have made sure that no school’s
grammar schools. We are very proud mar schools will face insolvency, or tighter, and we are having to make cy are going to have to make very dif- budget falls by more than 1.5 per cent
of our grammar schools in Kent. have to take extreme measures.” staff redundancies.” ficult decisions and there are no are- from one year to the next.
“Grammar schools have been There have been claims that a so- Former Gravesend headteacher as that can be comfortably cut. With “All state schools, including gram-
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Family ‘heartbroken’ at death
BUDGET CUTS: Could see
class sizes grow
More than 40,000 had joined a Facebook site hoping to find him, but last Sunday
hope was extinguished as the body of Pat Lamb was found in the River Medway.
Molly Kersey
speaks to his girlfriend at the end of a traumatic and tragic week.
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RIBUTES have poured in “He was a special person and it is
this week after the body of the little things I will miss. I keep ex-
missing Pat Lamb was for- pecting him to walk through the door
mally identified after being and say ‘hello muffin’.”
found in the River Medway Harnessing social media, more than
last weekend. 40,000 people had followed a Face-
Mr Lamb, 28, who had grown up in book page set up to try and find him.
Whistable and Canterbury, had gone A subsequent online petition, set
missing after a night out in Maid- up by Cathleen Breen or Orpington,
stone on December 13, sparking a has already secured 2,000 signa-
massive hunt to find him. tures calling for the banks of the Med-
The last sighting of him on CCTV way to be fenced off to “prevent more
saw him walking in the direction of tragic and unnecessary deaths”.
the Medway. It is not the first time a reveller has
Police recovered his body from gone missing after falling into the river.
Cuxton marina last Sunday after it Kieron Knowlden, 25, a father-of-
was spotted by a passer-by. His re- one from Tonbridge was recovered
mar schools, are funded in exactly mains were formally identified on from the river last March after going
the same way. We have ended the his- Wednesday. A report has now been missing for two weeks.
toric and unfair funding difference sent to the coroner. An inquest to es- Chief Inspector Susie Harper of
between post-16 schools and colleges tablish the cause of death is expected Kent Police said: “I would like to reit-
by funding them per student, rather to be opened soon. His phone and erate my thanks to all those who have
than discriminating between qualifi- wallet were found on his body. supported the search for Patrick.
cations. These changes affect all post- Spearheading the campaign was “This includes Kent Search and
16 schools and colleges, so it is not his girlfriend of six years, Natasha Rescue, and the many people who
true to say this has ‘unintended con- Morgan, whom he shared a home have shared appeals for information
sequences’ on grammar schools. with in Greenhithe. via social media, and volunteers who
“We have also increased funding Speaking to KoS this week, a devas- gave up their own time to assist with
for those that successfully study four tated Ms Morgan said: “This news is the search.
or more A-levels and large TechBacc so heartbreaking for everyone who “We would ask that they are now
programmes, giving schools and col- loved him and for everyone he loved. left to grieve in private.”
leges the green light to further help He was taken too soon from us and ■ For all the latest news see our
their most able students.” my heart will be forever broken. site www.kentnews.co.uk. TRAGIC: Pat Lamb had been missing since December 13
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