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April 2022

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Folkestone and Hythe Cats Protection shop in Hythe is now open: Monday to Saturday 9am - 5pm. New measures in place to protect customers and volunteers. Stringent cleaning regime and quarantining system to further protect customers and volunteers and only 2 customers in the shop at any one time. Many bargains from £1. Contact shop on 01303 264285 and general enquiries on 0345 260 1253 2

Report from your County Councillor for Newington Local government has been given the responsibility for co-ordinating the arrangements for the Ukrainian refugees coming to households in Kent. The situation can change rapidly so the best place to look for information for both residents and Ukrainian refugees is www.kent.gov.uk/ukraine Queries about the Ukraine Families Scheme can be emailed to Ukraine@kent.gov.uk or by calling the dedicated helpline 03000 412424 (this line also has a translation service). KCC’s Leader Roger Gough said, ‘We continue to do everything possible to ensure that Ukrainians arriving in Kent can do so swiftly and safely. DBS checks [checks on criminal records] and home visits are now underway in the county with those kind and generous residents who have been able to provide a safe haven to Ukrainians fleeing the conflict.” As of 13 April 2,064 Ukrainian refugees have been matched with 824 sponsor households in Kent. The KCC led EV600 network of Electric Vehicle charging points now looks set to be EV800 by the end of the year. Around 100 of these charging points are in car parks belonging to Folkestone & Hythe District Council with the rest across Kent and Medway. You can see more details at www.connectedkerb.com/kent It’s estimated there are around 30,000 public charging points in the UK but there are over 400,000 private ones and there’s a website – www.cocharger.com – which matches people who want to charge with people who have a charger. People sometimes think you need a special charger to refuel an Electric Vehicle whereas they have two cables, one for fast chargers and one with a normal 3 pin plug which can be used from a normal domestic socket. Most people will therefore be able to recharge their cars at home overnight and can start each day with a full battery if they wish. There’s also a growing network of public and commercial charging points to support the switch to electric vehicles. Another of the environment projects I’ve been leading at KCC is the purchase of a large solar park in Somerset (mostly funded by a Government grant we won last year). The electricity from this will be used to power Kent’s streetlights and the use of solar power will 4

reduce KCC’s carbon emissions by around 30% and save around £760,000 a year for the next 40 years. We are also building a smaller solar park at Kings Hill in Kent which will reduce our carbon emissions by around 4%. We hope to build at least three more sites of this size in Kent on closed landfill sites here in Kent. Storms, road traffic crashes, damage to ships, the P&O problems and a train stuck in the Channel Tunnel have all contributed to the recent delays to cross Channel traffic. KCC does not control the ports or the motorways but we are part of the Kent Resilience Forum which brings together Kent Police, National Highways (formerly called Highways England and responsible for the motorways), Kent Highways and other public agencies to deal with emergencies such as these. We at KCC are clear that this is a national issue and that the Government needs to take action to address the increasing regularity of such disruption. We continue to lobby on this. Susan Carey Member for Elham Valley Kent County Council

All now available in paperback and on Kindle Set in Folkestone in the heady days of the late 60s. They say if you can remember it, you weren't there!

Two plays. One an imaginary meeting between Dylan Thomas and Brendan Behan in a Fitzrovia pub. The other is Caitlin Thomas reminiscing after the untimely death of her husband.

This is the tale of Hana, a young girl who moves from where she was born in London, to the Kent coast. They discover a wonderful area called Prince's Parade which is full of amazing animals, has a beautiful canal and is right next to the sea too! By buying this book you will be helping to protect it. All profits from it will be donated to the Save Prince's Parade campaign which aims to halt plans to develop the area into a housing estate. Very funny, and surreal story about a man and a woman on their first date: Bolton Brady and Veda, set in London, November 2001. Bolton is forty, not into assets, has never lived with a woman and looked into the future and seen loneliness. So he decides to do something about it. He advertises in a lonely-hearts column, and receives six replies, but after experiencing one disaster after another only Veda remains between him and his sanity. As the day unfolds the line between reality and fantasy becomes blurred, building to a surreal, yet poignant, conclusion. 6

All now available in paperback and on Kindle

This walk through the history of Sandgate to the present day was first performed at the Chichester Hall a decade ago on Wednesday, 9th June. It is now available on Kindle or in paperback.

Now available on Amazon. Great evocative yarns of worldly travels.

A Loose Cannon tales of a lapsed activist

Ted Parker

The title of the book hints at how, as a ‘loose cannon’, Folkestone born Ted’s risk-taking got him into trouble on a number of occasions whilst being a considerable advantage in his working life.

As a young journalist, Reg Turnill met most of the prewar political personalities and later became the BBC's space correspondent being the only one in the press room when the historic Houston we have a problem message came from Apollo 13. 7

All now available in paperback and on Kindle Janet Holben. Paperback. Folkestone Cemetery has around 15,000 graves (27,000 people) there are stories of skulduggery and innocence, murder and bravery, grandeur and squalor – but mostly there are stories of everyday people living their lives. This account brings some of those stories back to life and will perhaps bring an understanding of how Folkestone was shaped by terrible wars, widespread disease, the unforgiving sea, the new railway and fashionable society – but mostly, by the people who lived, loved, made their livelihood and finally died here.

Westbrook House School Folkestone was a fee-paying preparatory school for boys aged 6 to 13 years. It was situated in three existing adjacent former late Victorian private houses in Shorncliffe Road with a 3-acre playing field to the rear which backed onto the main railway line. It was the life-time ambition of Kenneth N G Foster (1903-1984) (photo c.1958) who initially bought up the first house in 1946. Under his Headmastership the school started taking both day and boarding pupils in 1947. By the 1950’s the school was thriving requiring a sizable number of characterful teaching and domestic staff.

A very heart felt thank you for the anonymous donation of £5000 Restoring and maintaining this historic towards the re-painting of building and its grounds Charity number: 1122652 the internal walls of the Church. There was no signature on the accompanying note to identify the sender. We are extremely grateful and will now shortly be able to proceed with the work.

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Friends of St Nicholas Church AGM at 7pm on Friday 22nd April followed at 7.30 by a talk by Melanie Wrigley on her recent visit to Iceland. There will be no charge but donations appreciated 11

To advertise in all three of The Sentinels with circa 3000 targetted readers and growing please email me at: david@thesentinel.org.uk for a rate card. Thank you. We are a small family run business, trading for over 30 years in the heart of Hythe High Street at number 51 (CT21 5AD) and we pride ourselves on customer service and of a range of products with high quality produce. We cater for all needs, whether it's a small treat for your pet, tapioca to make your favourite nostalgic pudding, or some of our delicious, local, free range eggs, perfect for cooking, baking and breakfasting! At U-Weigh we have more than 400 items in store, ranging from cupboard essentials to sweet treats and snacks. We have a large selection of herbs, spices and seasonings to take your meal plans to every corner of the world, and to cater for the home bakers and amateur chefs, some cupboard staples; flours, sugars, cake mixes, pastas and rices. As dried food specialists, we all have a wide knowledge and will not hesitate to help with any queries or questions you may have. Take a look at our many products, write your list and pop into the shop. We're also doing our bit for the planet by introducing paper bags, and don't forget, if you are trying to be more green, you can bring your own tubs, jars and containers to fill up. www.u-weigh.co.uk

www.facebook.com/uweigh/ 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 dash So-called "quotation marks" The colon: and on and on. The shouty exclamation! Kindle edition The three dots of... £9.99 (Not forgetting the brackets) Hardback And even more 13

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In the Church this May 2022 May 1 Benefice service at St Martin’s. 10.00am May 8 9.00 am* Eucharist May 22 9.00 am* Eucharist. * Morning services will start at 9.00 am from May 8 through to October 23.

Do look at the church notice board for further announcements.

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Newington & District Gardeners Association The Gardeners monthly meeting for March at Newington Village Hall found a very good attendance from members with the addition of some new members finding us for the first time. The Monthly competition was well supported with entries, thanks to Jean and Malcolm Brisley for controlling it. Our guest speaker was Mr Steve Edney, stepping in at short notice we had an excellent talk from Steve on growing and maintaining Dahlias, Steve also gave us an update on his new venture which has found him setting up his own nursey called No Name Nursery An early April meeting, due to Easter, found the gardeners treated to another great talk, this time from Katherine Hook, taking us through the use of Sole. Interesting talk title, Sole Seduction. The table competition found once again Jean and Malcolm in control, this month being judged by Janine Daulton, who gave the members a few tips on identifying the correct Division for the Narcissi. That takes us to looking forward to our May meeting on Mon 16th where Neil Miller will be talking to us about Hever Castle Gardens. New members are always welcome and don’t forget you can now find us on Facebook search for us ‘Newington District Gardeners (NDGA)’ Vic Coleman Chair

Newington & District Gardeners Association Newington & District Gardeners Association Sunday April 3rd found the Newington Village Hall full of spring flowers. It was the first show in 2 ½ years for the gardeners who held there own NDGA Spring Show, historically this would have been a competition against another Gardener club and would have been The Inter society Spring Show, it wasn’t to be this year so we made it our own show. Things were looking good with warm weather bringing out lots of Daffodils, however there was a little twist in the weather just days before the show, with cold, wind, snow and rain. Sunday morning found exhibitors arriving with their entries and we were happy the well know NDGA friendliness was also back, with exhibitors giving assistance to other exhibitors to stage their exhibit to show it to its best.

It was soon judging time and we were pleased to receive full compliments from the 2 Judges who commented on the quality on display and the excellent presentation. Results given later in the afternoon, found Mr Eric Pudney in 3rd place with 20 points, Mr Malcolm Brisley in 2nd place with 36 points, but taking ALL prizes available was a shocked but very happy Mrs Ann Vincent, who with 43 Points, won the trophy for member with most points and overall exhibitor with most points, also being awarded exhibitor with best vase of three Daffodil and best Daffodil. Ann Vincent (left) being presented with a table of Trophies by NDGA President Mrs. Jan Fagg

Vic Coleman NDGA Chair

Photo from Paul Vincent

Above. Ann Vincent's winning Best Daffodil Left. Ann Vincent's winning vase of three Daffodil Right. Nicky Johnsons winning Floral Exhibit Photos from Sally Coleman

Report from your District Councillor for Newington

Ukraine The Districts residents have responded superbly through contributing supplies through the several collection points in the District. Following an initial generous surge at the start there has been an understandable slackening off but if you can please continue to contribute . There has also been an fantastic response from home owners willing to take in families with the first two families arriving this week The Council has issued a handbook guide for these families Handbook help for Ukrainians and their hosts - Folkestone & Hythe District Council (folkestone-hythe.gov.uk)

Planning Policy A major step forward was taking with the approval of the Councils Core strategy review which was adopted at the Full Council meeting on 30th March 2022. It is important that this documents was accepted and approved which keeps us in control and without which we could lose control of planning Policy to central Government giving us unwelcome exposure to Developers Full announcement can be found here; Approval for future planning policy - Folkestone & Hythe District Council (folkestone-hythe.gov.uk)

Coastal Protection Beach management work to help protect the district's coastline has begun this week.The recycling and regrading of shingle beaches between Fisherman's Beach in Hythe and Folkestone Harbour is carried out to guard against any risk of tidal flooding 22

Working to guard against tidal flooding - Folkestone & Hythe District Council (folkestone-hythe.gov.uk)

Red Arrows Return The world-famous Red Arrows will make a welcome return to the district this summer at the 2022 Folkestone Air Display. The iconic Royal Air Force aerobatic team is set to thrill crowds on Sunday 21 August and will be joined by an exciting line-up, which will be announced nearer the time. Red Arrows set to fly high again over Folkestone - Folkestone & Hythe District Council (folkestone-hythe.gov.uk)

Elham Valley Line trust Good to see the Trusts volunteers getting the summer programme going again with the miniature steam weekend 23rd and 24th April. Cllr David Godfrey Cabinet Member for Housing and Special Projects

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