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December 2020

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NEWINGTON VILLAGE HALL Important Notice Newington Village Hall committee are delighted to welcome two new committee members who have agreed to take over the following important roles; •

Letting Secretary – Cherry Berkin

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Treasurer – Mandi Hayes

The Hall has been fortunate enough to secure a substantial government grant from Folkestone and Hythe Council to ensure that it re-opens once the Covid restrictions are lifted.

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Folkestone and Hythe Cats Protection shop in Hythe is now open: Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday 10am - 3pm.

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.

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Contact shop on 01303 264285 and general enquiries on 0345 260 1253

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Report from your County Councillor for Newington

There’s some good news on traffic enforcement powers to help keep HGVs on the main road network. The Government has granted the powers KCC has requested (for East Kent, Swale and Maidstone areas for initially six months) so we will be able to both fine and clamp illegally parked HGVs. Any HGV that tries to ‘jump the queue’ will be sent to the very back of the queue and there will be plentiful signage as traffic leaves the main network to make it clear that there will be penalties. The clamping trial in Ashford is generally considered to have been a success so whilst it won’t solve every problem it should be a real help. KCC are employing contractors who are specialists in this work to implement the new powers from 01 January. We’ve been pushing for these powers for a long time and intend to make good use of them. For more information on the traffic management plans for the M20 etc. should there be disruption, see the website of the Kent Resilience Forum www.kentprepared.org.uk which includes all the public sector partners – KCC, Highways England, Kent Police etc.

A team of military logistics specialists has been helping KCC’s Public Health Team set up Covid testing for those without symptoms. Initially this will be targeted at the areas with the highest infection rates – Swale and Thanet. It’s important people remember that even if they don’t show any symptoms themselves they may be transmitting Covid to other people.

Until the vaccination programme allows us to get on top of this pandemic, we all need to take great care and follow the advice about social distancing, face masks and hand washing.

I’m pleased to report that KCC is once again accepting into care Unaccompanied Asylum-Seeking Children (those assessed as being under 18 years of age). On 17 August we 8

had to tell the Government we had run out of sufficient foster places, social workers and funding to safely cope with the numbers of young people arriving in Kent. Since then, numbers in Kent have reduced from 612 to 412. This is still a high level and KCC continues to press the Government for a national dispersal scheme (as is done for adults and families) across all UK local authorities and share the load more fairly.

Over 2,700 people responded to our budget consultation and the results of this will help inform the decisions we take. The Government has indicated that local authorities can increase council tax by no more than 2% in general and another 3% for those councils with social care responsibilities (higher levels are only permitted with a referendum). We will set our budget in February 2021.

As ever, www.kent.gov.uk remains the best place to find the latest information and I add traffic notices and other information to The Elham Valley Facebook group page. You can also follow me on twitter @susanjcarey I wish us all a good 2021. After the year we’ve just had I think we deserve it.

Susan Carey Member for Elham Valley Kent County Council

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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.

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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.

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Report from your District Councillor for Newington

Well folks, on Saturday 19th December I was thinking about what to put into my report this month and then Tier 4 and the Tunnel/Port closures were announced which could not have come at a worse time. All of our Christmas plans will be affected in way or another, like many of you my wife and I were hoping to see a few of our family but that will now be another Zoom session.

My thanks go to all of our Council Staff and partner agencies working long hours to help the most vulnerable in our Community as well as maintaining essential services for all of us.

Despite everything I hope you all have a Happy Christmas, stay safe and well and stay home as much as you can.

David Godfrey Cabinet Member for Housing, Transport and Special Projects

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In the Church this January 2021 Holy Communion at 9.30am on January 10 Holy Communion at 9.30am on February 14

Do look at the church notice board for further announcements.

Talking of which, we are trying to raise money to erect a new notice board with a door to protect the notices as the existing one is rotten and doorless.Since Covid-19 we have had to put the notices outside. If anyone feels able to make a contribution we would be very grateful.

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