The Conservative candidate in the River Ward by-election, David Craggs, has beaten Labour’s John Jones by over 70 votes.
With just 25.3% of River Ward’s 5,484 voters either turning out, appointing a proxy or posting their vote, David Craggs secured a 73-vote majority over Labour’s John Jones when votes were declared less than 90 minutes after [...]
Two newly-elected MPs are the retain their jobs on the council, whilst a third MP has yet to signal his intentions.
Conservative Councillors Mark Reckless (Rochester West) and Rehman Chishti (Rainham Central) achieved majorities of over 9,000 in last week’s elections in Rochester and Strood and Gillingham and Rainham respectively.
However, rather than prompt by-elections in their [...]
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The controversy over the Holy Trinity Church seems to be never ending at the moment, so I’d like to just pause the arguments here for a second and just take a look at this photograph.
It is, without a shadow of a doubt, the most beautiful sight ever to be photographed in Twydall’s history – and [...]
An ?iconic? church building has been refused demolition by Medway Council?s Development Control Committee.
It seems like years ago when I took the above photograph, and indeed Chapter’s successor-in-title the Strood Academy is worlds away from its predecessor, it would seem.
Chapter may as well have never existed – its former existence has been wiped off of the planet. Its replacement assumed control of everything – right down to the awards [...]
