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The fireworks of New Year’s Eve seem long in the past as weather systems Ischa and Jocelyn stormed us through January toward the last month of Winter. Meanwhile...

Protecting our green spaces from inappropriate housing developments and safeguarding our precious environment have always been priorities for me. That is why...

A few weeks ago I wrote in this column about a special fund being set up by South East Water (SEW) for charities in Maidstone & The Weald. It was created to...

Amidst the current Cost-Of-Living crisis several commentators have been critical of the King’s Coronation, a theme I have also seen within several Maidstone &...

Regular readers of InYourArea may recall my column about the ‘nightmare before Christmas’ last year. It was a story about a large number of residents and...

There’s a real torsion in the expression ‘A Perfect Storm’ – I think it is in the uncomfortable link between an ‘aspirational adjective’ and a ‘noun to avoid’...

The success of English football is an achievement that should rightly be celebrated. Our clubs, across the top divisions, have been great generators of tourism...

Weald of Kent residents may recall a campaign I launched in Cranbrook in July 2021 to address rural crime and antisocial behaviour, working alongside the police...

When Samuel Taylor Coleridge wrote the memorable line ‘Water, water everywhere and not a drop to drink’ in his much-celebrated poem 'The Rime of the Ancient...