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Secret Festival?
Aug 20, 2010 at 15:16 It appears that leaflets for our imminent and marvellous Festival were accidentally printed on thin sheets of Unobtainium. Our own dedicated Tourist Information Service seems to be rationing them. Presumably they've been cleaned out by people swarming to a quiet corner of the off-the-main-drag Council Offices.
Herne Bay | Keywords: HB Festival, Tourism, VIC CCC's Notable Achievements in Herne Bay
Aug 18, 2010 at 15:00 Marks out of ten for achievement? Here's what CCC proudly list on their site as their achievements in Herne Bay since 2005. I'm not churlish by nature, but it doesn't seem like a lot.
CCC, Herne Bay | Keywords: Development Town Development - consultation
Aug 17, 2010 at 15:00 Roll up, roll up! This is probably your last chance to influence the Master Plan, so have a look and then have your say. Not only can you have a close look at the William Street development plans, if you choose the day carefully, there will be someone to explain it all.
Herne Bay | Keywords: CDA, Coplan, Denne, Town Centre Blacksole Bridge solution?
Aug 13, 2010 at 14:20 Here's a thought: our beloved Council might be able to pluck victory from the jaws of self-inflicted defeat by the careful use of some of its special powers. Not super-hero special powers, you understand, but good old-fashioned statutory powers.
Now & Then: William Street car park
Jul 30, 2010 at 0:00 Now & Then: an occasional comparison of past and present (and sometimes the future). This time we're hovering over what is currently the William Street car park.
Herne Bay | Keywords: CDA, Town Centre Mixed reception for development plans
Jul 29, 2010 at 23:36 Ambitious plans for a £35 million regeneration of Herne Bay town centre have been met with mixed reactions. Scores of people packed into the Salvation Army Hall on Tuesday as Bay councillors gave their views. The scheme, led by developers Denne Construction and regeneration experts Coplan Estates, includes a supermarket, shopping centre, homes, multi-storey car park, hotel and a medical centre. It could be complete as early as 2014. Concerns have been raised that the development will draw people away from shops in Mortimer Street, but that suggestion was shot down by finance guru Cllr Peter Lee.
Herne Bay | Keywords: CDA, Coplan, Denne, Jean Law, Peter Lee, Robert Bright, Roger Matthews, Ron Flaherty, Town Centre Fourth Pier: Eden-on-Sea
Jul 29, 2010 at 13:59 Herne Bay could end up with two giant domes on its pier, just like Cornwall's award-winning Eden Project. The idea is the brainchild of graphic designer Dave Parish. He submitted his plans to a secret meeting of the town's Pier Trust last week, and says feedback has so far been positive. He told the Times: "I am very optimistic about the plans."
Town says it with flowers
Jul 23, 2010 at 23:21 Blooming bollards have brought a sea of colour to Herne Bay - thanks to its In Bloom committee. They installed flower baskets of red and white geraniums over the town’s bollards in the High Street, with help from city council contractors Serco and money from the county council, just in time for the South and South East England judges to call on Tuesday.
Alien pods invade. Town calm, oblivious.
Jul 22, 2010 at 22:58 ;)
click it to big itOfficially alien, inert but somehow threatening, Satan's Smarties have been popping up all over. Once you've got your eye in, you realise that they've been hiding in plain sight. Cunning. Looking like larger-than-life models of microscopically disgusting nano-life, they are the pupal or chrysalis stage of a ladybird. Not just any old ladybird, though: the Harlequin ladybird - an invasive species that arrived from the continent in south-east England in 2004 (its range expanded north from continental Europe as the climate warmed) and has already reached the Midlands and Cornwall.
It's voracious, gorging itself on blackfly and eating other ladybirds out of house and home. It's spread has been mirrored by a fall in number of some of our native ladybirds. (Native ladybirds have Union Jack tattoos on the underside of their wing-cases, to help with recognition.)
Ecological dilemma: let nature take its course, or trample them underfoot and make ladybird wine?
