On Thursday, 11th July, 1929, a well-rehearsed fire service demonstration at the Gillingham Park Fete went tragically wrong, and 15 people burned alive in front of a crowd of hundreds of spectators.
The real tragedy, however, is the state of the graves of those six men and nine boys who perished in the tragedy, epitomised in [...]
Labour activists have been on the offensive about Lord Ashcroft’s non-dom status, despite the fact that their non-dom donors have given more freely than Ashcroft.
In particular, the leading Labour blogger in Medway, Tristan Osborne, has been spewing his bile about Ashcroft’s funding of Tory posters in his new locale of Chatham.
However, the Labour candidate for [...]
A Rainham Central councillor is urging people to support what he describes as being a “vital” pedestrian crossing over the A2.
Cllr Mike O’Brien, a Conservative, has written a letter in today’s Medway Messenger, saying that the proposed crossing near Guardian Court and Pump Lane would be “vitally necessary for both the residents … and many [...]
I went into last night’s budget meeting intending to tweet the most interesting comments, as well as brief personal thoughts, from start to finish.
Unfortunately, my neglect in ensuring that I went into the public gallery with a fully-charged BlackBerry put pay to that idea, and I had to stop live tweeting the meeting.
I did, however, [...]
February 26, 2010 | Posted in
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The rate of teenage pregnancy in the Medway unitary authority has fallen just 0.06% since 2001, according to the Office of National Statistics, despite apparent investment from the Labour government.
Two weeks ago, AlanWCollins revealed that 54 ten and eleven year-olds have fallen pregnant since 2002 and also that 300 girls aged 13 and under fall [...]
