Sittingbourne.Me Blog

Gordon Henderson MP attends Parliamentary launch calling on schools, businesses and community groups to get outdoors, get active and help clear up Sittingbourne and Sheppey.

Honestly, when I first heard this, I thought that it was a practical joke. However, I can assure you that this recommendation from the Council’s Cabinet members is most certainly not a joke and if agreed by full Council may become a reality very soon.

Demolition of the Prince’s Street Depot off Eurolink Way has commenced, with the installation of fresh new hoardings to follow in the coming weeks.

Momentum has been building since last May when Swale Borough Council announced which additional sites they had selected to add to the Local Plan to reach new targets set by Government Inspector Sue Turner a couple of months earlier.

As the council contemplates spending more of your money on another town centre development we ask why and how did we even get to this point.

A proposal to modify the Maidstone bound slip road on to the A249 at Key Street roundabout, is being promoted as a mechanism to alleviate existing traffic problems at Key Street roundabout and on a lengthy section of the A2 between Borden Lane and Key Street.

Bethany Moore, aged 10, who attends Borden CofE Primary School, was made an honorary Litter Angel when she won the 2016 Litter Angels competition.

Forever Hair & Beauty Salon is the creation of business partners Natalie Gorman and Jill Quinn. Yesterday the deputy mayor and mayoress Colin and Pamela Prescott officially cut the ribbon for the grand opening their new salon in East Street.

The Swallows Leisure Centre held its first ever Christmas Fayre on Sunday with a host of stalls, live entertainment, ice skating and the stars of the show Santa and his reindeer.

On Sunday 20th November a group of local volunteers and re-enactors teamed up to stage an ambitious swale wide event to remember the unsung volunteer heroes and an often-forgotten ambulance train service of the Great War which transported the wounded from sea landings to inland facilities.