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Sittingbourne’s The Forum Shopping Centre is hosting two days of scarily good Halloween fun on Saturday 20th and Saturday 27th October.

The council’s unofficial frontrunner for a new garden town, which has not yet even gained consent in principal has just grown even larger. The Quinn Estates, Highsted Park scheme has now been extended to cover the whole of Bapchild, massive tranches of Tonge and surprisingly even parts of East Hall Farm.

Swale Borough Council is spreading the Christmas cheer with £25,000 to support Christmas lights across the borough, albeit very late in the day.

On the evening of September 18th at the Fulston Manor School Millennium Hall, Sittingbourne-in-Bloom held their annual prize giving ceremony for the winners of the Spring and Summer front garden competitions.

The second phase of Spirit of Sittingbourne roadworks in Sittingbourne town centre will be complete by October 22nd, it has been announced today.

As part of its on-going commitment to the local community, The Forum Shopping Centre in Sittingbourne is challenging all budding young writers to create a spooky story this Halloween and be in with the chance of winning a special prize for themselves and their school.

A great deal of local history is written by local authors and I am always interested to learn more about the author and the storey behind the book. So, when I heard that Vic Wise had just published a book entitled “The Sea In My Blood” I quickly arranged a meeting.

Shock as council finally reveals the true cost of preparing the last Local Plan which came in a staggering £3.6 million over budget. This totally contradicts information supplied by the council under a freedom of information request...

The recent hot weather means local farmers will be harvesting some crops slightly earlier this year, which means organic matter will be spread on to fields over the coming weeks.

To say that Sittingbourne did really well at last years RHS South, South East in Bloom Awards would be, to put it mildly, understating matters somewhat. With a gold in the large town category, a gold for the best country park and best single floral display in the whole Region Sittingbourne topped all expectations last year.