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Members of Folkestone Choral Society, conducted by Grenville Hancox, will be performing an inspiring concert which includes Brahms Ein Deutsches Requiem op 45, accompanied by two pianists.

This Requiem is thought to be appropriate for the approaching season of Easter, with emphasis on the living and giving a sense of peace and calm to ultimately soothe. Also performed will be Brahms Trio for Clarinet, Cello and Piano op 114.

The concert takes place at Holy Trinity Church, Sandgate Road, Folkestone on Saturday 25 March at 3pm.

Tickets £15, £10 for students under 24; there is no charge for under 18s

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From the cutting-edge London design agency Here Design - writer and poet Philip Cowell, and award-winning designer Caz Hildebrand, author of The Herbarium, this playful, original, beautifully designed book brings to life the punctuation marks we use every day, including: The dashing dashSo-called "quotation marks" The colon: and on and on The shouty exclamation! The three dots of (Not forgetting the brackets) And even more

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Air Ambulance Charity

KENT SURREY SUSSEX (KSS) NEEDS MORE VOLUNTEERS

Air Ambulance Charity Kent Surrey Sussex (KSS) needs your support! Having just announced that 2022 was the busiest year in its 33-year history – the life-saving charity responded to 3,224 incidents last year, with 1,353 call outs in Kent - KSS is urgently seeking to recruit more volunteers in order to help with more events and activities in the coming year.

The charity, which provides world-leading pre-hospital emergency care 24/7, currently has over 150 volunteers who help with a wide range of activities including managing collection boxes, marshalling at events, speaking at community events, office tasks and more. Volunteers offer a few hours on an occasional basis or regular hours each month.

Bridget Pepper, from the KSS Volunteer Development Team said, “Our volunteers are highly valued members of Team KSS, and we are incredibly grateful to everyone who donates their time to support us. Over the last year, KSS has benefited from over 4,000 hours of support from volunteers and our volunteers were involved with raising or collecting over £250,000 on our behalf.”

“This year, with demand for our service at an all-time high and the need to raise even more funds due to the increased costs of operating our service, we need to recruit more volunteers and we have lots of opportunities available to suit people of all ages and abilities.”

“Alongside providing our charity with critical support, volunteers enjoy many benefits from working with us, including meeting new people, attending events and feeling a sense of pride in supporting an incredible charity in their local community.”

“We hope people from across the communities we serve will get in touch with us and find out more about how they can get involved. We really appreciate all the support we receive.”

KSS is an independent charity. It costs £16.6M a year or £45K per day to operate its world leading, lifesaving service. This is a significant increase from the £15.2M required in 2022. 87% of KSS’s total income is raised through the incredible generosity of its supporters and 10% through NHS commissioning funds. If you are interested in finding out more about being a KSS volunteer, please contact volunteering@aakss.org.uk or visit www.aakss.org.uk

European AstroFest is the UK’s premier astronomy conference and exhibition and earlier this month featured 16 talks from leading astronomers and space scientists plus three floors of exhibition space. It took place at Kensington Conference and Events Centre, London. It was frequently attended by Sandgatean, the late Reg Turnill the one time BBC Space Correspondent, so it was appropriate that his son Graham (pictured) should attend and give the other attendees a chance to buy Reg's posthumous memoir Grappling With the Unintelligible which is available on Amazon.