High maintenance councillors pocket £386k

Expenses, expenses - dontcha just love them? No suggestion here of unseemly duck houses or whatnot, I believe this is all above-board, as-per-normal stuff. It all mounts up pretty quickly, far exceeding the projected savings from museum closures, for example. But it's the salaries that bug me. And Mr Parris has a point.

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No expenses spared

The nitty-gritty in all its unadorned nitty-grittiness. Here are our councillors' expenses for 2009 - find out who's chatty, who's got wanderlust, and who's just very, very special. I've corrected a couple of errors in the table as it appeared in the HB Times, and re-jigged it as an Excel spreadsheet. There's a link at the bottom of the article for you to download it.

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Museum Friends in the press

Crash, bang, wallop! A massive multi-media extravaganza accompanied the public launch of the the Friends of Herne Bay Museum - people, dogs, cameras, sunshine, words on sticks, you name it - total sensory saturation, Herne Bay style.

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2004: a vintage year for reports

The not-so-dusty Pier report from 2004 has been the cause of much pulse-quickening, gander-upping and even name-calling. My insatiable curiousity compelled me to send my spies to the four corners of the earth to learn more, and here's some of what I have gleaned... The report itself is made of unobtainium and is scarcer than unicorn poo - it appears that very few people have actually held a copy in their hands.

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Two-thirds Canterbury City

Grab a handful of your favourite blood pressure medicine and have a good hard stare at this. Times are hard and getting harder, attractions are closed and closing. In Canterbury, however, there's over £1 million ear-marked for Westgate Gardens...

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Pier Board: Who's Who

The Herne Bay Pier Trust was set up in 2008.  This is your handy, at-a-glance Who's Who and Who does What guide.

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