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Aylesham & District Community Workshop Trust celibrate ten years of service to the local community this week a luncheon on Friday the 8th of June.

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Snowdown Colliery

Miners Way Trail.

A fine Sunday morning saw the launch of the Kent Miners Way Trail a walk or cycle around the south east Kent countryside
linking the collieries and local villages. MP Gwynn Prosser unveiled a route marker outside Aylesham Community project which was a signal for two hundred walkers and forty cyclists a be the first to plough their way through Aylesham , Snowdown, Tilmanstone to Betteshanger social club. There was a thirty mile cycle route and a six and twelve mile walk with a lift on a open topped bus back the Aylesham. At the Betteshanger social club teas were laid out and an exhibition of the work done on the three hundred thousand pound project funded by a variety of funders the biggest being the national lottery. The first phase of the project
came to an end but the Coalfield Heritage in Kent will now be run by a collection of volunteers in Aylesham, Chislet , Betteshanger ,
Mill Hill and Elvington they will still load items to the web site and record the miners history.

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20^th of July

Aylesham Parish Council meeting.

On the expansion of Aylesham Mr. Tim Ingleton of Dover District Council planning

department said that the Aylesham plan would not now be put to the planning

committee of Dover in June but it will be submitted in July of this year.

The developers Ward HillReed and Dovers planners have had so many complications that

delays were inevitable but they intended to submit a plan that would be viable.

The parish council will get help from Planning Aid but at the moment they do not know

what the developers will submit but will give alternatives to any objections they may

have; especially proposals around the market square.

Mr. Ingleton said that the council would again consult with householders in Aylesham on

the final proposals.

It was also reported to the parish council that the proposals for the upgrade of the Welfare

sports facilities had hit a problem and the council plan to meet the Mr. Charles Walker of

Dover District Council to get a report.The next parish council meeting will be the

16^th of August.

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Dirty Continental Folkestone.

On the evening of Sunday the 15^th of July Folkestone harbour tried to go continental

with balmy hot sunny afternoon and evening, a Sunday market and a Beatles tribute band

playing to an audience of over two hundred in the evening.

Just the weather to persuade people to holiday in England.

A great way to stimulate trade and Folkestone as a tourist destination but it fell down on

the environment and particularly litter and down right filth.

I went to the venue at seven in the evening and the visitors were greeted with the litter of

hundreds of plastic beer glasses , some half full, the , the debris of the market , the left

over of hundred of fish and chips all thrown on the floor it looked more like a war zone

than a holiday town.

We walk down the harbour wall to see picturesque fishing boats a site to challenge

anything on the continent but all of the pubs had rubbish on the pavements.

Whose are responsible the people for clearing the rubbish the who pay three pounds per

drink , the staff in the pubs who benefit from a job, the owners of the pubs or the council

who promotes tourism for the area?

Derek Garrity

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