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- Charging for Parking a Boat
- Herne Bay Christmas Fair
- Great news! The Downs on track to become a Village Green
- Police & Crime Commissioner elections - Nov 15th
- QE2 Coastal Park Consultation
- Who will save the pierhead?
- Supermarkets everywhere
- Brilliant idea for a website...
- Portrait Bench at Reculver
- Singing the praises of our unsung heroes
- The city council has lost the plot
- Andy Lawrence stops the traffic in Mortimer Street
- 2013 Calendar
- Dangerous junction
- Westgate fudge
- Walk Back in Time in Herne Bay
- Music on the Bandstand
- Big Jump photos available
- Life Classes at Beach Creative
- Supermarket plan causes friction and ructions
- Turtleastic - find out what it means to you
- Adult Education - what do you think?
- SNAAP Charity plea
- Westgate Jam Fudged
- New Courses from the WEA
- Herne Bay on the Rain Scale
- Beach Creative
- Is a superstore super news?
- Terrace Hill
- Deferral on Kingsmead land decision
- Historic Westgate Towers Museum to reopen
- King's Hall features new live music
- Bay's renewal plan is 'second best in Europe'
- Kent beaches get seal of approval in new Good Beach Guide
- Death, suicide and death threats
- Pier review
- News from the end of the Pier
- Public interest, secret debate
- Gilbey slams the gutless
- Vickery-Jones showered with praise
- HB Exhibition at King's Hall
- Herne Bay's growth threatened by Canterbury's greed
- Council demolition failure
- Herne getting famous for beating Tesco
- NHS Bill Risk Register
- Herne Bay rejects Manston night flights
- Pier pressure
- Home and dry - hosepipe ban coming
- Olympic torch a distant twinkle
- WEA Course: Egyptology
- Flying start for Farmers' Market
- Herne Villagers won, Tesco nil
- See you soon...
- See the NoToTesco march
- Anti-Tesco march at Herne on Sunday
- Marvellous Movie of Vintage Views
- Our Council must support the Pier Trust
- Music, Art & Poetry in Herne Bay
- Multiply and subtract: more beach huts
- Garage fire in Charles Street
- The "never apologise, never explain" approach to democracy
- Minnis Day Center - KCC are the only ones who want it to close
- Pier Trust reveals extension plans
- HB Farmers' Market shaping up well
- Bandstand - rumours and speculation
- Tesco at Herne: villagers fight, councillor gives in
- Herne Bay Farmers' Market
- FO Tesco
- Tesco target Herne Bay
- Tesco ignore Herne residents
- Crass criticism from stunning councillor
- Find a planet, be a star
- Mattress king who's battling for local traders
- Red Lion villagers declare war on Tesco
- Massive anti-Tesco protest rally at Herne
- Sir Roger Gale
- E-fits released after distraction burglary in Herne Bay
- Classes to help you breathe easy again
- KCC - prize-winningly rotten
- Paul Carter crows and bleats
- Plea for a free parking
- Local Archbishop needles acquisitive bankers
- Bob Holness
- "Free" parking for Herne Bay
- Pat Butcher bows out of limelight
- May Lodge to close
- The great British tax scandal
- Greenhill residents pull together after vandals target cars
- Journalist bites councillor
- Why KCC will have to come clean over Kerswell
- Found on Facebook
- Paul Carter's view of 2011 and 2012
- KCC staff are furious
- Kerswell out of it
- Japanese invasion strikes Herne Bay
- Nuke Switzerland
- Inquiry on village green stops!
- Inquiry on village green starts
- Council fights bid to turn Downs into Village Green
- Road casualties
- Nov 2011: most read
- The finest public art
- Oct 2011: most read
- Parish councillors hope to derail Tesco Express
- Council refuses to back village green status bid
- Save Hillborough
- Artists' Open Houses Trail in Herne Bay
- £25.6m later, a New Marlowe
- Kitewood Hillborough Extension: expert opinions
- Public meeting: Kitewood development at Hillborough
- Holy Trinity pipped by Unholy Monopoly?
- Don't want Tesco, do want pub!
- War tribute at Bay Art Gallery
- "The Seafront"
- Sep 2011: most read
- Historical Records Society: new season
- The Upper Red Lion at Herne, Tesco, and Peter Vickery-Jones
- Reforms to the Planning System
- Village Green: how you can help
- Spam Scams
- Herne Bay's political future
- Friendly fire?
- Bun Penny PH, Herne Bay
- Aug 2011: most read
- Hospital Fête
- Oooh, look - we're on telly!
- The Friends' Fête and the Council's greed
- Village Green: the final furlong
- Kitewood Hillborough Extension
- How to build a windfarm
- Herne Bay Beach Hut Day
- Herne Bay Carnival
- Delicatessen plundered for scrap twice in one week
- Bus rally threatened by Council
- The Pier Pavilion... not to be missed ;-)
- Message in a Bottle at Reculver
- Drama on the foreshore
- Jul 2011: most read
- Former jet-setter finds the good life on the farm
- Review launched into HS1 impact on regular rail services
- Killer driver free after just 4 years
- Couple's day at palace
- Bandstand's French visitors
- In Bloom outfit's confidence grows
- Ex-councillor Martin Fisher jailed for child pornography
- Not the End of the Pier Show
- 'New regime' clashes with Pier Trust
- Creche, bang, wallop! Mums win.
- Message in a Bottle
- Jet skier airlifted to QEQM
- 100 march against post closures
- Pollution at car park is "unlikely to pose a risk"
- Park View landlady wins licence battle
- Vehicle ploughs through stone bollards
- Toad works ahead
- Jun 2011: most read
- Carnival Queen abdicates
- Be part of the Herne Bay Carnival
- "Grotesquely selfish" arsonist gets 2 years
- Bay Art Gallery 10th Anniversary
- New Museums boss excited for future
- Waitrose gets 20-year lease in Canterbury
- So-called savings will deliver more costs
- Already looking forward to next year's awards
- Altira supermarket
- Getting stuck in to give beach hut a new look
- Best of a bad bunch?
- Racist graffiti attack shocks shop owners
- Ban on fishing in Memorial Park pond
- Herne Bay to be colonised by time machines
- School sports village on way
- New home for the Green Shelter
- Asbestos work adds £¼m to Pier costs
- Host of opportunities to put town on the map
- Councillors say sorting office closure will be 'horrendous'
- Pavilion demolition will now take longer
- Have your say about beach huts
- Tourism in Herne Bay
- Amateur Oscars awards
- Residents 'in tears' as care home shut down
- Daft huts
- Future of shelter to be decided
- Council says beach hut demand is outstripping supply
- Onion's Tardis
- Post mortem and the afterlife
- A tragically lonely death
- Fishing ban reviewed
- AGM - Change of Date
- It's Kitewood. Again.
- Making allowances
- Tasteless, tawdry, and slightly fun
- May 2011: most read
- Our Chosen Few
- 2011 Election Results
- Yellow lines, etc.
- Survey for Herne Bay clock tower
- Diamond Jubilee
- Runners and riders
- "Standards"
- HBHRS Wine & Wisdom 26th March
- The town's councillors
- I learned a new word today
- HBHRS Lecture 17th March
- Bottle tops!
- Party on the Pier
- Windfarm extension: Vattenfall says...
- Windfarm extension: your opinion
- Annual Projects and Business Exhibition
- Windfarm extension consultation
- Recycling bags
- Village Green at Westbrook
- Your local crime stats
- Herne Bay's redevelopment
- Town Centre Development - consultation outcome
- Canterbury Archaeological Society
- No Post? Here's a number to call
- 3rd Class Post
- King's Hall wins the People's Millions
- Walk the walk
- Fight Night Flights
- Yellow Lines on the Promenade
- Community space
- Dangerous spike on the Downs
- What happened to my package?
- Closures "justified by fall in council grant"
- Pier fund-raising
- Comprehensive Spending Review: reactions
- Photogenic water voles
- Golf club closure
- Yellow Lines on the Promenade
- Windfarm extension is planned
- Parcel "farce" at delivery centre
- Windfarm extension
- Stuck in the mud
- "I'd crush boy racers' cars with drivers still inside"
- Hampton beach clean
- Night Flights
- Budget Limits
- Community space
- Community space
- The future of the Pier
- 3D at the Kavanagh
- Dog severely injured by rusty metal stake
- Yellow Lines on Prom "an insult to cyclists"
- Village hall: who said what and why
- Third class post
- Programme 2010/2011
- Vandals target Coastwatch
- Positive feedback over development
- Treats for lawyers justified
- Golf club up for sale
- Leader's fury at jobs cuts query
- A la Carted
- Mail plan would mean closure for sorting office
- Tesco delayed
- One-way dangers confirmed
- Community space needed
- Community space on the Pier
- East Street danger
- KCC pay and perks
- Treats for lawyers
- Flower beds
- Sorting Office
- New hall consultation: chicken and egg?
- Central Development Area
- H&B Parish: not-so-secret new hall (cont)
- H&B Parish: not-so-secret new hall
- HBiB Silver Gilt award
- Speak no evil
- Seaview Holiday Village expansion
- Reculver's past at the Museum
- Seafront Parking Petition
- Beach Biker
- H&B Parish: not-so-secret new hall
- Good Beer Guide skips Herne Bay
- One-way dangers
- HBiB Silver Gilt
- Victims of floods in £1 million claim bid
- KCC opens it books to the public
- Kavanagh Classic Film Club
- Oops! The cost of a fuelish mistake
- KCC mobile phone bill
- HBiB success, and thanks
- Reducing the cost of policing
- Community space
- Freedom of Information: why bother?
- Freedom of Information: results
- Freedom of Information: what they say
- Parsonage Road protest
- Seaview Holiday Village expansion
- H&B Parish: secret new hall
- Flood: Southern Water to blame
- Flood: the residents
- Flood: the MP and the Engineer
- Big secret out about new hall for village
- The Wine Bar, Mortimer Street
- Marlowe progress
- Mervyn King praises Marlowe
- Seafront Parking
- Unemployment in Herne Bay
- Kevin Griffin
- Secret Festival?
- CCC's Notable Achievements in Herne Bay
- Town Development - consultation
- Blacksole Bridge solution?
- Now & Then: William Street car park
- Mixed reception for development plans
- Fourth Pier: Eden-on-Sea
- Town says it with flowers
- Alien pods invade. Town calm, oblivious.
- Electric Ferret: looks harder, finds more
- Politician calls for depopulation. World trembles.
- Politician calls politician "political". Nation laughs, yawns.
- Crime-watching
- Crucial bridge must be built soon for safety's sake
- No build. Pre-billed.
- Beacon Hill
- Friends of Herne Bay Museum
- Altira
- Nothing to do with jollies...
- Heron I heart
- Empty promises: just rinse and recycle
- Unthinking so-and-so's
- Vox pop: parking on Marine Parade
- Hobby politicians
- Pipe dreams
- High maintenance councillors pocket £386k
- No expenses spared
- Museum Friends in the press
- 2004: a vintage year for reports
- Two-thirds Canterbury City
- Pier Board: Who's Who
- Portfolios for 2010/11
- Newbies at the Pier
- Get blooming
- Homeless, begging, and saving lives
- Monkshill Farm getting a café and shop
- Blood from a stone
- Press editing
- Pier Trust AGM
- Democracy is worth encouraging
- Tainted Mayor
- More turbines
- Liberating labyrinth
- General Election results
- Le Petit Poisson in the press
- Freedom from choice
- How to help the Pier
- Classic Cars: punny headlines, good news
- Storm brewing
- Post-election: stress, disorder
- Daft General Election Forecast!
- Shiny cars, happy throng
- Watching the arsonists
- Herne Bay B&Bs
- Classic Car Show May 2010
- Don't return to sender
- Le Petit Poisson
- Befriend our Museum
- CCC Officers: Who's Who
- Dispersal zone
- London Array connects to Thanet
- Where the Wind Farms are
- Seal cruelly exiled
- The railings on the roof
- 125 decibels is OK, they say
- Sell Museum to pay for Pier?
- £560k to improve the park
- People United
- Gardening Competition
- Herne Bay in Bloom
- Excursion July 2010
- Excursion May 2010
- Herne Bay Historical Records Society
- General Election Results
- Herne Bay Beach Hut Owners Association
- HB Philanthropic Society
- Cultural Trail
- HB Residents' Association
- Town Centre Development zones
- Canterbury councillor Roger Matthews acquitted...
- £20k down a small hole
- HB Councillors, by Ward
- Non-HB Councillors
- A flattering picture
- Windfarm info
- The First Pier
- The Second Pier
- The Third Pier
- Think like an idiot
- The official story
- A potted history
- AboutMyVote
- FixMyStreet
- WhatDoTheyKnow
- TheyWorkForYou
- WriteToThem
- HearFromYourMP
- The Town Partners
- The Pier Trust
- Cycling on the Promenade
- Blacksole Bridge is a daily risk
- Humberts Leisure report on the Pier
- Herne Bay coastwatch under threat
- 21st century Canterbury
- 21st century Kent
- Wall of silence
- Relaunch of The Ship
- Historic Inn reopening
- Gilbey in fighting mood
- Gale's View: London Array
- Gale's View: Town Centre
- Programme 2009/2010
- Gale's View: Empty Shops
- The ninth iffiest Pier?
- Gale's View: Blacksole Bridge
- Herne Bay councillor charged with corruption
- Muse. Um.
- A golden opportunity missed
- Mappa Monday
- Radio Sausage
- Gale's attitude problem
- Gale's View: Manston
- Shame
- Democracy is a verb
- "Hell on roads" with new Bay Test Centre
- Gale's View: Visitor Information Centre (part 2)
- Iceland comes to Herne Bay!
- Jean Law wins Herne Bay by-election for Tories
- Gale's View: Visitor Information Centre
- Gale's View: Sports Hall Relocation
- Obvious need for a safe solution
- Blacksole Bridge: Obvious in 2004
- 2004 Pier Report: CCC summarise the findings
- 2004 Pier Report: PMP executive summary
- 2004 Pier Report: CCC asking for opinions
- 2004 Pier Report: CCC announces kick-off
- The bay's information services get a boost