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The Friends of the Wisdom Hospice staged their third Colour Me Purple 5k sponsored run around Milton Creek Country Park on Sunday.

A team of judges have been out and about all over Sittingbourne scouting for the perfect front garden for this year’s annual Sittingbourne in Bloom spring front garden competition.

The Sittingbourne Retail Association’s annual St George’s Day event on Saturday once again managed to pull in the crowds with fun packed roster of entertainment, stalls and fun fair rides.

Andrew Bowles the leader of Swale Borough Council who is standing in the forthcoming KCC county elections for the new super-sized ward of Swale East which stretches the entire length of the borough from the A249 in Bredgar all the way to Dunkirk, has pledged that housing must be sited in Sittingbourne and Sheppey first.

Tory councillors on Swale Borough Council have awarded themselves an inflation busting bumper pay deal whilst council employees pay remains capped at 1%. On average a Tory councillor is now a staggering 15.59% better off than last year whilst the average pay of a UKIP councillor has seen a pay cut of 4.70%.

Whilst the Council have been keen to talk up the start of this very lengthy regeneration scheme, with the demolition of the Biffa Depot in readiness for the Drive through Costa, Iceland and Home Bargains retail stores, most of us are eager to know when the rest of it might happen.

Perseverance has paid off for 18-year-old Rebecca Port, who last night became Miss Sittingbourne for 2017 having twice served as a princess in 2015 and 2016.

Even before the ribbon cutting had begun a queue of eager shoppers had formed either side of the entrance. However, once the store had officially opened many, many more presumably waiting in their cars to avoid the rather unpleasant weather poured in through the doors and kept on coming.

Earlier this month Highways England expressed their concerns regarding the Council’s Local Plan suggesting that the evidence produced to-date regarding the Strategic Road Network does not provide full confidence that the plan is sound.

At the end of another season, challengers from numerous local pub darts teams taking part in the Sittingbourne and District Open Means Darts League gathered together for their annual presentation night with start guest of honour Andy ‘The Hammer’ Hamilton.