Emergency services, safety and security businesses and volunteer organisations coalesced to provide a one-stop special event in Staplehurst Village, for the benefit of local community safety.
Maidstone Police Community support personnel, Kent Fire and Rescue Service intermingled with the Parish Cou
I’ll never forget the anxiety I felt as a little girl, waiting for a school bus that never arrived, or even more soul destroying, watching it fly past me without stopping. It didn’t matter how prepared I was for my day, if I was late for school I knew it would annoy my teachers, disrupt the re
If it’s February, it’s Groundhog Day, and the good people of Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania get to find out if Spring is just around the corner, or still weeks away. If I’ve lost you already, watch the hilarious 1993 film of the same name, where a TV weatherman gets caught in a time loop re-living
Building a successful business was in my wish list from quite a young age. I tried a couple of start-ups and enjoyed some success before becoming a solicitor. Then I set up my own legal practice and I knew that location was vital – to be near other critical support services, amidst a str
Sixth form students from across West and Mid Kent descended upon Maidstone Leisure Centre last week for the second annual Maidstone Apprenticeship Fair.
The Fair, which was organised and hosted by local MPs Tracey Crouch, Helen Grant, Tom Tugendhat and Helen Whately, brought together 1000 young peo
MP Helen Grant continued her Q and A tour of local schools in Maidstone & The Weald with visits to Tiger Primary School in Loose and Maidstone Grammar School for Girls in Bridge Ward last week.
MP Helen Grant was given a tour of the newly-developed Benenden Hospital near Cranbrook last week.
The Member of Parliament for Maidstone & The Weald visited the hospital’s outpatients department, Bensan and Garland Wards and the CT and MRI Suites, accompanied by matrons Ali Curtis and Zoe Andr
I’ve seen and read much about it during my lifetime, but last week I saw the human face of the Holocaust for the first time and it affected me profoundly. I met some of the few remaining survivors at a Memorial Day reunion; I listened to their stories, I saw some of their pain and I thought de
The NHS has been an integral part of my family for as long as I can remember. My grandmother was a nursing sister at the Cumberland Royal Infirmary; my mother was also an NHS nurse at the City General in Carlisle for a time; my father trained as a surgeon at the NHS Royal Victoria Infirmary in
