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Parents in court over baby death Burger bar burns down following an electrical fire
burger A POPULAR Tunbridge Wells a fire restaurant has closed followingweek. last that engulfed the building Marlowe’s Firefighters were called to 8pm on in Calverley Road at around Friday [February 28] evening. were Surrounding buildings tackled evacuated as firefighters to have thought is which blaze, the fire in been caused by an electrical the basement.
Evacuated the Nobody was injured in people were incident, although two inhalation treated for minor smoke at the scene. and A spokesman for Kent Fire Rescue said: “Six fire engines fire engines attended, including two Rescue from East Sussex Fire and Service. “Crews wearing breathing jets, apparatus used hose reel smoke compressed air foam, to curtains and a fog spike stop the extinguish the blaze and flames from spreading. “Immediate neighbouring as a properties were evacuated
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THE parents of an eightweek-old baby girl from trial Crowborough went on yesterday [Tuesday] accused death. of shaking the child to Lewes Crown Court heard that paramedics treated baby Holly Roe at the family home in Alderbrook Close, Crowborough, on September her 10, 2018, before taking to Tunbridge Wells Hospital was she where in Pembury, pronounced dead. A post-mortem found the infant had bleeding and bruising around her brain, bleeding in both her eyes and 12 rib fractures.
Both the baby’s father, Michael Roe, 32, and her mother, 21-year-old Tiffany Tate, deny murder and causing or allowing the death of a child. Before the trial got underway yesterday [Tuesday], Judge Mrs Justice jurors Clare Moulder warned and the case was both ‘tragic shocking’. She said: “It is the of prosecution case that one her her parents murdered it to and the other allowed happen.”
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End of the line for station stairs causing disabled major problems By Richard Williams
is to be CLOSE to a million pounds better spent giving disabled people station. access to High Brooms For decades disabled passengers or exit have been unable to enter which is platform two at the station, people a used by about 1.2 million no lift or ramp year, because there is to the southbound platform. and London from Those travelling stairs either unable to manage the Tunbridge have to continue on to taxi, or return Wells and get a bus or at on the other line to disembark platform one. of Now, thanks to a Department plus a Transport award of £785,000 Full story page 16 council, the top up from the borough are to be long awaited improvements made. work will It is not yet known when might have on start or what impact it passengers. from the The news follows lobbying Rail, the borough council, Network District Rail Travellers Association, Council, Kent as Southborough Town Smith & Williamson removed Council, and Southeastern commercial to have Oil & Gas, County Greg Clark. the company for no apparent administrators to London LCF did. and Tunbridge Wells MP purpose’. collapsed shortly after By Robert Forrester Council Leader Alan McDermott of a number of which Mr Barker’s of the good Mr Barker was a director “It is to be inferred that the a company that is to informed councillors that received money from ONE of the directors of in pursuing the application at last week’s Full Council the Tunbridge companies London Oil purpose and/or to deplete news borrowed money from bond-firm, including He said: “This is very good that collapsed failed of loans vex the administrators the court Meeting. of High Wells mini-bond firm Gas – the principal borrower the administration estate,” news for disabled users more than 11,500 & owing £237million to supplied by LCF. Station. filing claimed. fellow London Brooms station is investors is being sued. Barker says he and his “Improving access at the Down, East which includes local Elten Barker of Hadlow directors, other Gas and & we is Oil loans in something ‘Mr Barker’s purpose Sussex, received £1.5million Capital & Tunbridge Wells Conservative stakeholders have been pushing for London – who tors former from the collapse of party chair, Simon Hume-Kendall time. to vex the administra according to a failed company – some Finance [LCF] last year, last was chairman of the “And it’s not just disabled and deplete the estate’ to put the firm into filing from the firm’s administrators who will benefit – it is were wrongly advised High Court ruled passengers week. struggling with buggies, administration, but the tasked are two parents in who interest’ ‘an Williamson, had Smith & It is also said he that went are against him in January. with tracing tens of millions of LCF, other companies the administrators collapse London Group Continued on page 4 missing after the suing over the LCF affair, 4 High page the on to Continued confirmed in their filing LPE Enterprises. attempted sue Mr Barker for and Court they intend to Earlier this year, Mr Barker he received from the £1.5million ‘which
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