Residents and businesses can now benefit from a new keyholder service developed in partnership with Kent Police. Kent KeyLink is a not-for-profit based-based service providing police with information on your nominated point of contact allowing access to a property or business in the event anything untoward should happen.
Proposals to give Leicester City Councillors a huge increase in allowances have been criticised by Leicester taxpayers and union leaders.
Claire Darke is a keen gardener and makes her own compost. She has a compost bin which will turn her garden and a lot of kitchen waste into a sweet smelling compost in just a few months. Made from black 100% recycled material a compost bin with a sliding hatch for easy access to your finished compost can be obtained from Recycle Now. Phone 0845 077 0757. A larger bin height 10cm and diameter 80cm costs £10 and a smaller bin 90cm high and 74cm diameter costs £8. There is a discount if you buy on line at www.recyclenow.com/compost.
Official figures suggest there were 81,135 people locked up in jails and in police stations in England and Wales on 27 September - a record high. This exceeds the previous record of 81,040 inmates reached at the end of June, when the government's emergency early release scheme came into effect. Of the total, 80,803 are held in prisons and 332 in police cells. There are now just 780 spaces remaining to house new criminals.
Hythe Town Football Club celebrated a 2-1 win against Dover Athletic at Reachfields on Saturday. Ex-Mayor of Hythe Neil Matthews was at the match to cheer on Hythe and delighted with result and the boost to the town.
An e-petition calling on Gordon Brown to intervene to save the PRH is now live on the No. 10 website.
