Helen Grant, Member of Parliament for Maidstone and The Weald, convened a rural crime summit at her office in Maidstone last week to discuss concerns brought to her attention by local farmers.
The MP invited farmers and rural business owners from across the Low Weald as well as representatives from
Readers will no doubt be aware that last month was the wettest February on record as the UK was battered by storms Ciara, Dennis and Jorge in successive weekends.
The positive influence of inbound peoples from all around the world to this country is one of the great strengths of modern Britain. Our healthy and diverse population produces leaders in every aspect of our global society, and long may that continue.
But, as the international movement of peo
Many of us are still haunted by the chaos that gripped Kent during the summer of 2015 when disruption at the Port of Dover led to endless weeks of congestion due to Operation Stack.
Kent MPs have since vowed that this must never happen again and have lobbied the Government to introduce a permanent
Maidstone’s road network is unique. It is where four of Kent’s arterial routes meet and it encompasses four junctions of the M20.
The volume of traffic this creates means there is little or no resilience in the network.
The 2020 Maidstone Apprenticeship Fair has been hailed as a huge success after it was confirmed as the biggest version of the annual event to date.
The third incarnation of the event, which coincided with National Apprenticeship Week, took place at Maidstone Leisure Centre on Friday 7th February an
For at least the last five years, the most persistent issue raised with me by the people of Maidstone & the Weald has been concern about excessive housing development, particularly when it isn’t accompanied by the required infrastructure. It was at the forefront of my discussio
On Monday this week I joined our Prime Minister and 16 African Heads of State in London at our first UK-Africa Trade and Investment Summit.
In July 2020 the African Continental Free Trade Area will come into being, made up of 54 of the 55 African Union nations. With a population of 1.2 billio
As the UK prepares to leave the EU one of our new Government’s priorities is to strengthen our role in international affairs. Fittingly, the first debate on the Queens Speech in Parliament this week was named ‘Britain in the World’ and was particularly timely in view of the current volatile po
