• Mayor of Tunbridge Wells weighs too much to do skydive for charity

  By Cantywunty

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  By Kent and Sussex Courier at 08:01 on 10/05/13

  

  AS MAYOR of Tunbridge Wells he is used to weighty issues – but John Smith never thought his own weight would get in the way of a high-flying charity event. The 48-year-old was booked to tandem skydive above Headcorn airfield to raise money for his chosen charity, Hospice in the Weald. But Mr Smith has revealed to the Courier that his daughters Lottie, 18 and Evie, 17, will have to go it alone because he weighs more than the...

• Residents face bill for site clean-up as travellers come back

  By TheAshes

  Gypsies stole my bike when I was ten years old. And now they're on Sherwood's doorstep! Time to lock...

            

   

  By Kent and Sussex Courier at 08:01 on 07/05/13

  

  SHERWOOD residents have complained after a group of gypsies parked their caravans on public playing fields. Eighteen caravans belonging to the travellers arrived on a football pitch in Colebrook Recreation Grounds, Tunbridge Wells, on Tuesday, sparking fears of another hefty clean-up bill for taxpayers after they move on. The council had to spend around £1,000 removing waste, including human excrement and asbestos, after...

• Tunbridge Wells North Farm Retail Park £5million road scheme warning

  By TheAshes

  "The conditions will be very clear on the £3.5 million. If we cannot meet that date or...

            

   

  By Kent and Sussex Courier at 08:00 on 13/05/13

  

  A MULTIMILLION-POUND road scheme for Tunbridge Wells will be "dead" if landowners refuse to sell plots of land critical to the development to Kent County Council. Council bosses warned they would have no choice but to "walk away" from the scheme for North Farm Retail Park if even one landowner would not comply. The council wants to purchase the plots for £1 each in a bid to press ahead with a scheme that...

• A21 widening inquiry to start tomorrow

  By TheAshes

  I'm getting pretty fed up with the Green Party's rhetoric: loss of ancient woodland; removing...

            

   

  By Kent and Sussex Courier at 08:00 on 13/05/13

  

  THE public inquiry into turning the A21 into a dual carriageway will open tomorrow – and locals have thrown their weight behind the campaign. The Highways Agency will begin to put its case to the planning inspector at the Mercure Tunbridge Wells Hotel in Pembury. Supporters who will appear over the coming weeks include councillors from Tunbridge Wells Borough Council, Tonbridge and Malling Borough Council, Sevenoaks District...

• Cheers for Roy Bullock as he leaves last meeting

  By LitonLife

  "Whether that is at a national, regional or county or local level, I don't mind. I want to be...

            

   

  By Kent and Sussex Courier at 08:00 on 07/05/13

  

  ONE of the most high-profile figures of Tunbridge Wells has attended his last meeting as a politician at Kent County Council. Councillor Roy Bullock used his last attendance to maintain his pressure on securing improvements to ease the congested North Farm Industrial Estate. Fellow councillors and officers applauded Cllr Bullock last Tuesday when he walked out of the council chamber for the last time. The Conservative Association...

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