It’s a Christmas window wonderland
The winner of this year’s Big Reveal Window Display competition has been announced. Over 2,100 voters chose their favourite retail and hospitality festive window displays across the three areas of The Big Reveal. Many of the local traders flexed their creative muscles and created fantastic festive displays, but there could only be one overall winner. […]
Read the Times of Tunbridge Wells 29th November 2023
Racer takes on next desert rally challenge
Langton Green local, Vanessa Ruck, also known as ‘The Girl On A Bike,’ has announced that she is entering into the gruelling 6,500km Africa Eco Race commencing in January 2024. The TEDx & award-winning motivational speaker, who had a life-changing accident in 2014 after a bike crash, has already completed eight international desert rallies and […]
‘This is much more than just a bar or café for me’
Last week, Fuggles Beer Café celebrated 10 years of trading with a party on November 15 at their establishment on Grosvenor Road in Tunbridge Wells. Sparked by a love of beer combined with a trip to Belgium that ‘cemented’ owner Alex Greig’s admiration for Belgian beer and European café culture, he set up in the […]
KCC considering sale of Union Mill in Cranbrook
Kent County Council’s (KCC) Environment and Transport Cabinet Committee discussed the proposed sale of eight historic windmills in the county, including Union Mill in Cranbrook at a committee meeting on Wednesday November 15. The proposed plans would see the Grade I and Grade II listed buildings across the county available for anyone to purchase, although […]
Thousands gather in the streets of Tunbridge Wells for The Big Reveal
Last weekend saw the return of the annual Big Reveal with large crowds flocking to the streets of Tunbridge Wells for the occasion. Organisers, RTW Together Business Improvement District (BID) announced that more than 3,000 people were in attendance across the three-day event. For the first time, the event ran from 4.30pm-6.30pm on three consecutive […]
Global music icon set to headline Black Deer 2024
International country superstar Sheryl Crow has been announced as the first headliner of this year’s Black Deer Festival of Americana. Crow will headline the festival, which returns for its fifth year in 2024, on Saturday June 15 on the park’s main stage, with fans expected to enjoy a career-spanning set from the nine-time Grammy Award […]
Watchdog to probe South East Water for ‘failing’ customers
The national water watchdog Ofwat has launched an investigation into South East Water over its service to households after ‘too many customers have been failed too often’ by the supplier. The regulator announced on Friday November 17, that it will investigate whether it has failed in its statutory duty to develop and maintain an efficient […]
Read the Times of Tunbridge Wells 22nd November 2023
Viva Chianti: All you need to know about one of Italy’s most famous and finest wines…
This week local wine retailer Paul Adams of Fine Wines of Mayfield, who also has a new shop located in Royal Victoria Place, looks at the history of the classic Chianti “Love endeth like the Chianti flask, its drops are bitter,” said the American artist and poet Gelett Burgess. Now, the history of the famous […]
