• Get involved in local plan plea

  By PhilRoseHBM

  "Studies commissioned by the council suggested most people's preferred choice for more...

            

   

  By Whitstable Times at 08:00 on 17/05/13

  

  CAMPAIGN groups and residents are being urged to have their say on a document that will set out plans for the town's future development. At the first public discussion of the draft local plan on Monday, Whitstable Conservative Ashley Clark said it was vital that people got involved. The town has been earmarked for 400 new homes alongside Duncan Down, between St Luke's Close and the Thanet Way, with a new junction off the Thanet Way....

• Whitstable's candidates for Kent County Council elections

  By jdearth

  I'll be voting for the Liberal Democrats - including myself as I'm one of the candidates. Following...

            

   

  By MariaSoleil at 12:16 on 26/04/13

  

  THE Kent County Council elections are next week on Thursday 2 May. The candidates standing for election for the Whitstable ward are listed below. BULL, Mike - 24 Spire Avenue, South Tankerton, Whitstable, Kent, CT5 3DS - UKIP CORNELL, Christopher James - 56 Harbour Street, Whitstable, CT5 1AQ - The Labour Party Candidate DANCE, Mark Charles - 76 St Marys Grove, Seasalter, Whitstable, Kent, CT5 4AB - The Conservative Party Candidate...

• 'My eyes were opened by Palestine journey'

  By Frank34

  Israel may have withdrawn from Gaza, but it still controls everything that goes in and comes out of...

            

   

  By Canterbury Times at 08:00 on 19/04/13

  

  BASKING in olive groves under a hot sun sounds like an ideal holiday, but for one Whitstable resident it was an eye-opening experience. When Richard Stainton went on an olive harvest tour in Palestine, in the Middle East, he stayed with families in Bethlehem, visited a refugee camp and saw the towering 350-mile wall, dubbed the Apartheid Wall by some, because it divides Israelis and Palestinians. Almost 40 per cent of Palestinians...

• American woman speaks to long-lost Whitstable father for first time following appeal

  By jackierhoads

  You can make donations here if anyone might be able to help us. Thanks so much!!!! :)

            

   

  By MariaSoleil at 14:17 on 18/04/13

  

  THANKS to an appeal published here on Whitstable People an American woman has spoken to her long-lost father for the first time. Jackie Rhoads lived in Seasalter with her parents until she was three, but then moved to the States with her mother and an officer from the US Air Force. For more than 10 years the waitress - who lives in Kentucky - tried but failed to trace the exact whereabouts of her dad Garth Coates, who she believed...

• Whitstable green activist believes gardening can beat anti-social behaviour

  By Alexander1964

  Well done Becky Richards. Keep up the good work. Wish you were in Dover!

            

   

  By Whitstable Times at 07:30 on 06/04/13

  

  VEGETABLES can help win the battle against antisocial behaviour, according to a green-fingered activist. Becky Richards, who co-founded Transition Town Whitstable, believes vandalism is less likely when there is community gardening. Mrs Richards is appealing for residents to flag up the town's untended nooks and crannies and get people to grow fruit and vegetables there for this year's Britain in Bloom competition. She imagines...

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