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November 2021

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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 By my reckoning, winter officially arrived in Kent on 02 November when, in response to falling temperatures, Kent Highways sent out its fleet of 64 gritters to treat the main road network. This year our contractor, Amey, has started using artificial intelligence models to improve how road surface temperatures are predicted. Amey says it can now predict road surface temperatures within 1°C, 24 hours in advance, to 90% accuracy. The models can also run alternative scenarios for the salt spread rate and the routes to match the severity of the predicted weather. The best response is then chosen and the gritters’ navigation systems automatically updated. This is expected to improve the efficiency of the gritting runs by 18% leading to an annual saving of £109,000. It’s savings like this that will help us cope with rising costs elsewhere such as the increase in employer contributions to National Insurance and rising demand for KCC’s services from social care to extra school places. Thank you to those who responded to our annual consultation on KCC’s budget, your responses will help us decide the priorities for limited funding. There are several other consultations being held or planned and you can find them all on https://letstalk.kent.gov.uk/ The Heritage Strategy consultation (archaeology, windmills, metal detecting etc.) is open until 13 December. There’s also a consultation on the Kent Design Guide which provides advice for planners and builders but is also open to everyone for comment until 17 January. I am also expecting consultations to be launched on KCC’s Mineral and Waste Plan (where sites for extraction of sand, ragstone and other building materials are protected and where our waste is processed) and our Plan Tree strategy which complements our Plan Bee pollinator action plan and looks at how we want to use nature as part of our work to balance the carbon emissions in Kent. Do please look at what’s proposed and have your say. I’m pleased to report that eight of KCC’s country parks have won Green Flags (a national award based on the quality of the park, its value to the community and environment). Shorne Woods, Lullingstone, Trosley, Teston, Manor Park, Brockhill near Hythe, and Pegwell Bay Country Parks have all retained their Green Flag status and new for this year is Grove Ferry Country Park in Canterbury. They are all well worth a visit.

There’s some good news about electric vehicle charging points with KCC’s EV600 project to offer a network of at least 600 charging points across Kent over the next two years. This is a partnership with Connected Kerb and some of the district councils who are providing space in their car parks. (Connected Kerb have announced they will be installing 190,000 on street charging points across the UK by 2030). Our buses are starting to go electric as well. KCC has been awarded £9.5m by the Government for electric buses on the existing Fastrack service in Kent Thameside and the new Fastrack starting in Dover in 2023. I wish you all a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year. Thank you to those who serve on the parish council, run the church, those who write for, edit or distribute this newsletter, the Gardening Society, the committee members of the village hall, the Elham Valley Line Trust and everyone who keeps the village organisations going for the benefit of all. Thank you to all the volunteers and all the good neighbours among us. More than ever we value the difference you make. Susan Carey Member for Elham Valley Kent County Council

F O L C A Folca is the old name for Folkestone We celebrate all activities in the Folkestone and Hythe district also known as Shepway See our comprehensive Directory and Blog pages

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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. 10

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. 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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Friends of St Nicholas Church Newington Restoring and maintaining this historic building and its grounds

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In the Church this December 2021 December 5 Benefice service. 10.00am December 12 Holy Communion 9.30am December 19 Christingle. 6.00pm Followed by seasonal refreshments December 24 Holy Communion 10.00am followed by seasonal refreshments. It is hoped that carol singing will take place around the villages nearer to Christmas.

Do look at the church notice board for further announcements. For any further Church information please call 01303 270604

If you would like to submit an article or letter please ensure it is emailed to me by the 20th of each month. I will print almost anything as long as it’s not libellous, racist or unkind. Name must be supplied but can be withheld if requested. Please put your articles etc in plain text or Word and images should be in .jpg, .tiff or .png. My contact details are: Address: Clyme House, Hillside Street, Hythe, Kent CT21 5DJ Mobile: 07771 796 446 email: david@thesentinel.org.uk