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Extremist voices must
not drown out others
IN violent scenes that shocked the entire religious groups but it is
world this week, nine journalists, important that we do not let the
two policemen and an office vicious acts of a few extremists
caretaker were murdered at a pollute our view of the religious
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The masked gunmen were said to diversity. We offer our condolences
have shouted that they were to the families of those who died.
avenging their prophet as they In other news, we look at the plight
committed the atrocities. of St George’s Memorial Chapel at
The attack comes after the satirical Biggin Hill Airport – a monument to
publication, Charlie Hebdo, contin- the 454 air crew based at Biggin Hill
ued to publish cartoons featuring who died in the Second World War.
Mohammed, despite immense The MoD are unable to fund the
pressure to stop. £50,000 running costs, so the
As a outlet that satirised all airport has stepped in to offer its
aspects of modern culture, the help to this important landmark.
cartoonists refused to let one group Elsewhere, we report on the latest
be immune from their pencil-sharp on Manston Airport and look at a
observations. scheme in Margate aimed at
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chilling prediction of his own death, tionship counselling organisation
prompted by his defence of our right about what to do if you are consider-
to freedom of speech. ing separating from your partner, as
It is all too easy, in the aftermath so many do at this time of year.
of senseless violence to condemn Have a great weekend.
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accepted. The chapel, which is an active It had made it clear that it would reasons for wanting to save it. It is
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Managing director Will Curtis church, was built in 1951 as a try to find someone to take it over a place I come to mourn and
said: “The chapel is a focal point memorial to the 454 Allied air and would not relinquish responsi- remember my family members.
v s where people who want to pay crew who were killed while bility for the chapel until this “The MoD could afford it if they
e their respects can come and we operating from Biggin Hill. happened. wanted to.”
think it’s an extremely important Winston Churchill said that it Martin Mitchener, who started Geoffrey Greensmith, vice
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part of our heritage. should remain in permanence. the petition, said he had been chairman of the Friends of the
li “I think it’s very important that It is open daily and visited by contacted by people from across chapel, added: “If we had lost the
d the men and women who served around 12,000 people a year. the world. Battle of Britain, this country
a here are remembered, and that we However, the MoD said that “At one point we were getting would have been invaded.
e e remember that human conflict is “given the diminishing size of the more than 800 signatures an “Those people gave their lives.
h very costly. For future generations congregation”, continuing to fund hour,” he said. It’s up to the rest of us to keep the
to understand war is the best way the chapel would be “an inappro- “The chapel is a beautiful place chapel going.”

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w Ukip leader Nigel Farage, has been had in the past few decades in the
criticised for comments he made name of multiculturalism.”
THE team behind the London 63 per cent of respondents approving during an interview about the A number of political leaders
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Paramount project have released of the emerging transport proposals attack on French magazine Charlie have criticised the remarks.
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statistics from their recent consulta- and 75 per cent of respondents stated Hebdo in which 12 people died. Nick Clegg criticised the Ukip
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o been very positive so far. the ecology and environment. living in these countries, holding radio phone in, saying he was
t London Paramount is a proposed Fenlon Dunphy, on behalf of our passports, who hate us. It does ‘dismayed’ that Mr Farage’s ‘first
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theme park and leisure complex to London Paramount, said: “To receive make one question the whole really reflex is to make political points.’
be built on the Swanscombe such positive feedback at this stage in
Peninsula and due for completion in the design process is hugely encour-
2020. aging and demonstrates the real Dartford MP is ‘glad to see
» Download your free The developer claims the complex, enthusiasm people are showing.
which would cost around £2 billion, “While a majority approve of the
Kent News iPhone would create around 27,000 jobs. draft masterplan, emerging trans- the back’ of troubled Tesco
and iPad App available More than 2,000 people attended port proposals and plans to protect
the public consultations, made up of the local ecology and environment
at the Apple App Store a dozen events spread over two we know there is much more to
weeks in November 2014 discuss in the next several months TROUBLED retail giant Tesco “Tesco has treated Dartford in an
Visitors were invited to complete a prior to the submission of our announced it will abandon plans to appalling manner and created
feedback form answering questions planning application. develop a new superstore in uncertainty for years.
on the draft masterplan, emerging “The next stage of public consulta- Dartford. “I personally will be glad to see
» Follow us on transport proposals and the ap- tion events will be a series of The area’s MP, Gareth Johnson, the back of Tesco but the important
proach taken in relation to ecology workshop events in spring 2015 said that the retailer had treated the thing now is to work on Dartford’s
Twitter @kosmedia or and environment of the area. which will provide an opportunity area ‘appallingly’. future – a development in Lowfield
Facebook KOS Media Overall, 786 feedback forms were for community members, stakehold- Mr Johnson said: “This an- Street without a Tesco store.”
filled in, with 82 per cent of respond- ers and industry specialists to come nouncement ends a very frustrat- Dave Lewis, Tesco’s CEO said
ents indicating that they approve of together to discuss and debate a ing and lamentable period for plans had been shelved after poor
the draft masterplan for the resort, number of different topics.” Dartford. performance.
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a es of UK Skunkworks have been permanently forfeited ards, with the support of police, seized samples of the
p after court action by KCC Trading Standards. legal highs from shops across the county and suspend-
The shops in Gravesend, Maidstone, Canterbury, ed the sale of many more.

e Ashford and Sheerness have been prevented from Dartford magistrates said at a hearing on January 5
h selling the products since enforcement action by KCC they were satisfied the products were unsafe and that
a Trading Standards in July. In a co-ordinated series of there were deficiencies in their labelling.
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k market research which suggested out of control car.
MANSTON’s coffin is littered with the airport might not prosper finan- The 59-year-old had been sent to an
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final nails - and again it seems the cially, the council finally decided incident on the M25 on September 25,
troubled airport will not be left to against the CPO option in December. 2012. While he waited for a tow-truck
v s rest in peace, following news that In the meantime, two of the de- for a stranded vehicle, a car skidded
e Thanet District Council’s decision velopers behind Sandwich’s Discov- across the carriageway and hit him.
not to pursue a Compulsory Pur- ery Park had acquired a majority He died at the scene. The driver was
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chase Order (CPO) will be reviewed stake in the land, for a rumoured subsequently convicted of causing death
li by a council committee. £20 million. The site has now been by careless driving.
d The airport has been in the news designated as mixed-use. The Health and Safety Executive
a since it was bought by reclusive Now, in a move that will delight (HSE) took the decision to deliver a
e e Scottish business woman Ann Gloag Manston-fans, the council’s scruti- censure after finding fault in the
h for £1 in October 2013. ny committee of cross-party coun- agency’s quarterly supervision checks at
Despite pledging to keep the air- cillors says it wants to review wheth- its Dartford outstation.

e port running for at least two years, er “appropriate procedures and HSE inspector Guy Widdowson said
h its doors were shut in May 2014, processes were followed in reaching the incident may have been preventable.
t causing around 150 job losses. the decision”. He said: “Mr Walmsley, who had
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– rumoured to be between £5 and can ask the cabinet to rethink the standing behind the safety barrier when
a £7 million – to buy the site, Ms Glo- matter. a car crashed on the motorway.
m ag refused to sell. the consent of the owner. The decision will be reviewed at a “If the Highways Agency had
Thanet District Council pledged The council maintained that it meeting next week. conducted the necessary supervisory
h to look into undertaking a Compul- would only undertake this with fi- MPs will also be discussing the fu- checks, he may have followed the
sory Purchase Order - where land nancial backing from a full-indem- ture of Manston Airport at a Com- correct safety procedures and prevented
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THE girlfriend of missing man Patrick Lamb has A LITHUANIAN lorry driver has been jailed for five A THANET councillor representing Ukip, thrown out
thanked the public for their help searching for years and four months after attempting to smuggle of the party last month for making undisclosed racist
him and urged anyone with information to come three kilos of cocaine into the UK. comments, has been outed as calling black people
forward. The drugs had an estimated street value of ‘negroes’ by The Times newspaper.
» Download your free Patrick Lamb, 28, who lives in Greenhithe, went £387,000.00. Rozanne Duncan, who is a councillor for Cliftonville
missing after a night out with his friends in Border Force officers stopped the Lithuanian-regis- East, was kicked out of the party in December for
Kent News iPhone Maidstone on December 12. tered lorry at the freight controls in the Eastern Docks, making the comments.
and iPad App available He had booked a room at the Grange Moor Dover on September 22. After questioning the driver, But it is only now that the full extent of these
Hotel in St Michael’s Road, Maidstone, but never Ceslovas Gailius, a detector dog was used to search comments has been revealed.
at the Apple App Store returned. the vehicle. According to The Times, Ms Duncan said she had
CCTV captured a number of images of Mr The dog, Arnie, gave a positive indication to a black a ‘problem’ with black people.
Lamb, who was last seen in Fairmeadow at rucksack that had been placed between pallets in the She described them as ‘negroes’ and said that
around midnight on December 13. lorry’s load of car parts. Officers opened the rucksack there was ‘something about their faces’.
The images show him stumbling, sparking and found three cling filmed-wrapped packages of It is believed Ms Duncan, 68, made the comments
» Follow us on fears he may have hit his head and could be hurt. white powder which reacted positively to a field test during filming for a BBC television documentary
Natasha Morgan, his girlfriend of six years, for cocaine. about Ukip.
Twitter @kosmedia or said: “The public have been amazing, over- Gailius was arrested and an investigation carried In a statement issued by the party at the time, a
Facebook KOS Media whelmingly helpful and really lovely. Thanks from out by the National Crime Agency. spokesman said: “Ukip is expelling Rozanne Duncan
the bottom of my heart, from me and Pat’s family,” He pleaded guilty at a hearing at Canterbury under rule 15 of its constitution for bringing the party
Anyone with information can contact police on Crown Court on January 5 and was sentenced to into disrepute.
101 or visit www.abbatalk.com/pat. imprisonment that day. “She has 28 days to appeal.”
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What will make next week’s headlines…
Ferry operator gets set Get registered to vote for
general election in May
for ruling appeal
THE public are being urged to It replaced the old Victorian
CROSS Channel ferry operator, ity had jurisdiction to take the make sure they register to vote system – where the ‘head of
MyFerryLink, will be taking stock decision on June 27 2014. ahead of this year’s general household’ registered everyone
after a Competition Appeal The loss is the latest in an election. living in their property – to a
Tribunal ruled that an earlier ongoing series of legal battles by The biggest change to the new one, in which each
decision banning it from running MyFerryLink to allow it to continue intends to renew its appeal. electoral registration system in individual is responsible for
services from the Port of Dover its services from Dover. In the meantime MyFerryLink nearly 100 years took place last registering themselves.
should be upheld. The ferry provider has said that says that it will continue to run its year. To find out more about
The tribunal stated that the the tribunal accepted a number of services between Dover and Calais It changed the way people registration and voting, visit
Competition and Markets Author- the points which it made and it as normal. register to vote. www.aboutmyvote.co.uk
…also
School place deadline Library consultation Council oppose flights City Link job losses
PARENTS only have until January 15 to A PUBLIC consultation on KCC’s plans to TUNBRIDGE Wells Borough Council will PARCEL firm City Link will be closing
apply for a primary school place for their modernise its libraries, registration and start campaigning for a reduction in night its depots in Aylesford and Ashford
child if they are to start school in archives service will launch on January 12. flights over the area. The council made the between Monday and Thursday next
September. Residents will be able to register their decision after a public meeting, during week.
To apply online, visit the Kent County views online at www.kent.gov.uk and a which councillors decided to oppose This will result in 11 job losses across the
Council website at www.kent.gov.uk. questionnaire will be available in libraries. expansion at Gatwick Airport. county.
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Mining museum given £215,000
Jamie Weir
ble us to maintain our strong and en-
[email protected] during bonds with our
mining communities.
“The museum will
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ONBRIDGE-based Hadlow provide a lasting legacy
College has good reason to for the generations that
be happy after its follow.”
Betteshanger Sustainable Betteshanger is the
Park project was given a site of the last mine
grant of £215,000 by the Heritage which was closed in Kent
Lottery Fund. during the late 80s.
The project, which will see the When the final pit closed,
former colliery at Betteshanger rede- it caused havoc for em-
veloped into an environmental com- ployment prospects in the
plex, received the funding for its plan area.
to build a museum dedicated to Kent’s Many of the areas for-
mining heritage. The museum will merly associated with
form a vital part of the 121-hectare mining are still bearing
site, and will celebrate and preserve the brunt of that abandonment and
the county’s unique coal mining have struggled to adapt to the closure
heritage. of the mining industry in the area,
Jim Davies, a member of the Kent with fewer jobs and a bleaker eco-
Mining Heritage steering group, said: nomic outlook.
“On behalf of the mining heritage The new development aims to
team on the steering group, we would change all of that, with a total of £40
like to add our thanks million invested into the site in the
t o Hadlow and project’s first phase. It is hoped this
the HLF for will create around 1,000 jobs. CRUCIAL PROJECT: How the Betteshanger Sustainable Park could look
the oppor- The new complex will combine sus-
tunity to tainable business and commerce, ed- the funding would be helpful. He said: “We’re delighted that ple and tourists alike.
move for- ucation, sustainable energy and He said: “I am delighted with this plans to celebrate Kent’s mining “The aim is to pro-
ward with tourism. wonderful outcome following a long heritage have taken another big vide a unique visitor
our muse- The HLF uses National Lottery process to get to this point. step forward. attraction that will
um, to ena- money to fund projects which help “This is such a crucial project.” “This is a key component of combine mining her-
people explore, enjoy and protect Paul Watkins, leader of Dover Dis- the plans for the Betteshanger itage alongside new,
HAPPY: Cllr heritage. trict Council, said that the funding Sustainable Park and will be a sustainable energy
Watkins Mark Lumsdon-Taylor is the would push an important part of the popular attraction for local peo- technology.”
finance director at Hadlow College, county’s cultural heritage to the fore The first part of the
and an executive director for the while also helping attract tourists to DELIGHTED: Mark development is expected
Betteshanger project. He said that east Kent. Lumsdon-Taylor to open next year.
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A&E wait is second
worst in England
Jamie Weir
Dartford and Gravesham NHS Trust last year. And there were 112,600
[email protected] outperformed the rest of Kent, manag- emergency admissions – the highest
ing to achieve a total of 94.7 per cent of number in a single week since we start-
patients seen to within four hours. But ed publishing performance figures in
M
EDWAY NHS Founda- even with a better performance than 2010.
tion Trust, which runs any other trust in the county, it was un- “We faced similar demand over
the Medway Maritime able to achieve the national target. Christmas itself. In the week ending De-
Hospital, has recorded However, it did manage to outper- cember 28 A&E attendances were up
the second worst acci- form the national average of 92.6 per more than 31,000 on the same period
dent and emergency department wait- cent. last year, meaning we successfully
ing time in England, according to sta- The statistics show the worst per- treated more patients in less than four
tistics released by NHS England this formance nationally since the target hours than ever before.”
week. was introduced for hospitals in 2004. The GMB Union - the union for NHS
The national target is for 95 per cent The figures from Medway hospital and ambulance staff - says that the fig-
of patients to be seen in less than four show that a total of 319 people were left ures show the NHS is being over-
hours. Medway only managed to see 79 waiting to be admitted for longer than whelmed due to a lack of money from
per cent of its A&E patients before the the four-hour period. By comparison, the government.
four-hour period was up. the national average number of people Rehana Azam, the GMB NHS nation-
That was only slightly better than left waiting for more than the target al officer, said: “Patients and staff are
Cambridge University Hospitals NHS time was 268. paying the price for the government’s
Foundation Trust, which was the worst Dr Sarah Pinto-Duschinsky, director failure to manage and invest sufficient-
in England, with 75.6 per cent of pa- of operations and delivery for NHS Eng- ly in the NHS.
tients attended to within the time limit. land, blamed the failure to meet targets “Staff morale is low and many staff MEDWAY: One in five patients waited more than four hours to be treated
Despite Medway’s particularly poor on an increase in demand. are required to come in on their rest
performance, the picture looks bleak She said: “Today’s figures show that days to help deliver care in a service THE BEST AND WORST IN KENT
for many of the county’s NHS trusts, in the three months to the end of De- that is massively overstretched.”
with none managing to achieve the na- cember more than nine out of 10 A&E A Department of Health spokesper-
tional target in the period between Oc- patients in England continued to be son said: “We know the NHS is busier Dartford And Gravesham NHS East Kent Hospitals University
tober 5 and December 28. seen and treated in less than four hours than ever before, which is why we’ve Trust 94.7 per cent NHS Foundation Trust 91.3
The figures – which are published – the best measured performance of given the NHS a record £700m this per cent
quarterly – examine the performance of any major western country. winter for more doctors, nurses and Medway NHS Foundation Trust
A&E departments across the country, “In the immediate run-up to Christ- beds. The NHS has ensured there are 79.0 per cent Maidstone And Tunbridge
and are broken down into NHS trusts, mas the NHS treated 446,500 A&E at- plans in every area to manage the extra Wells NHS Trust 90.8 per cent
rather than individual hospitals. tendees, up 38,000 on the same week demand.”
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24 hours a day 365 days a year. risk, the Emergency Services can contact the Lifeline
Service, quoting your unique reference number from
your wristband.
One-off set-up charge | £29.16
Annual Charge | £16.92
Why choose us?
(cid:2) We have been keeping our clients
safe for over 30 years.
(cid:2) We respond to calls on average in
just 12 seconds.
(cid:2) We are a Telecare Services
Association (TSA) accredited
organisation to assure
the utmost of quality
and high standards.
(cid:2) We offer a 21 day
cooling off period
to ensure the Lifeline
is right for you.
(cid:2) Shepway Lifeline is
part of Shepway
District Council.
All costs are quarterly
*Minuet Watch Pendant is a one-off fee
Contact us
What our customers say
Via Telephone: [phone] or 242971
“I feel happy and safe with the service you give” Via Email: [email protected]
“Always a cheerful voice” This little
Via Post:
“It is such a relief for my sons who live in London and Shepway Lifeline,
America that you are looking after me” Civic Centre, button could
“Excellent service - on the occasion that I needed the Castle Hill Avenue,
service in an emergency, the gentleman was kind and I Folkstone, save your life.
felt I was in good hands” Kent, CT20 2QY
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