Helen Grant, Member of Parliament for Maidstone and the Weald, has welcomed research showing that superfast broadband has boosted the turnover of local businesses across the UK by £9 billion.
This boost to the UK economy has created 49,000 local jobs, showing the clear benefits that superfast broad
Jubilee Field, Sissinghurst became a splash of colour and commotion as hundreds of local people flocked to the annual village fete on Bank Holiday Monday.
Dozens of stalls, a bar, BBQ and a bandstand encircled the competition dog showring where seven classes of canine candidates were shown.
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A campaign to get Maidstone nattering on World Friendship day (Monday July 30th) is being promoted by the West Kent Befriending Service in a push to fight loneliness and raise funds for Age UK Maidstone.
The campaign is supported by local MP Helen Grant who did a walkabout in Maidstone's Fremlin Wa
Stakeholders from across the Kent rural business community came together last week to hear from keynote speakers and to air their questions on a range of vital current issues.
The Rural Business Forum was organised by Maidstone & The Weald MP Helen Grant at the Kenward Conference Centre in Kenw
Helen Grant, Member of Parliament for Maidstone and the Weald, has welcomed the launch of a public information exercise into the potential long term solutions to Operation Stack.
Highways England are inviting people from across the county to share their views on the potential options for deali
Throughout my life I have been driven by a belief that everyone, irrespective of their background or circumstances, has their own special something to offer society.
Royal weddings are good for us – official. The whole country generates its own special lift, with street parties and bunting, and together Britain shows-off to the world all that it stands for as a modern Constitutional monarchy.
A great step forward was taken for Medway River flood management at the launch of the Little Mill Farm wetlands project in Marden last weekend.
It is the fruit of an idea hatched by local farmer and land owner Peter Hall to harness natural processes to reduce flood risk further downstream.
The Leaders of Kent County Council and Maidstone Borough Council met on Friday 27 April to discuss the proposed relief road to the South of Maidstone (the "Leeds Langley Relief Road") in a second meeting chaired by Maidstone MPs Helen Grant and Helen Whately.
This follows the well-attended public m
