Local tech safety company to sponsor UK’s Road Safety Week
A locally-based technology safety company is to co-sponsor the UK-wide Road Safety Week this November. VisionTrack, whose UK headquarters is in Chapman Way at High Brooms in Tunbridge Wells, provides vehicle cameras, software and equipment to remotely monitor vehicle safety and driving, and is a long-term supporter of Brake, the road safety charity organising the […]
Thousands flock to Calverley Grounds as music festival hits all the right notes
The Bank Holiday weekend played host to more than a hundred live music acts as Local & Live returned following financial troubles that threatened to silence the event this year. The popular free festival drew more than 10,000 music lovers to the town from all over the UK and beyond for three days of entertainment, […]
Going Out Guide September 1 – September 7
Celebrating local artistic skills The latest Royal Tunbridge Wells Art Society exhibition is up and running and on until this Sunday. Here, its Vice Chair, Suzy Phillips, tells Eileen Leahy all about it. “There is a bit of a watery theme going on at Royal Tunbridge Wells Art Society,” smiles artist Suzy Phillips, who’s also […]
Pupils brave the rain on results day as GCSEs are down on previous years
Heavy rainfall didn’t dampen this year’s GCSE students as 15 and 16-year-olds flooded into schools last Thursday (August 25) to receive their results. This year’s Year 11s were the first cohort to sit exams for the last two years, and lost months of classroom time thanks to school closures and quarantines among both students and […]
Abusive father is set to stay in prison following the ‘Tony’s Law’ campaign
A man who tortured his baby boy so badly his son had to have both legs amputated has had his automatic release from prison placed on hold under new powers to protect the public from dangerous offenders. Tony Hudgell, now seven, was badly abused by his birth parents Anthony Smith and Jody Simpson. The parents […]
Small businesses face closure as energy bills increase by four times
Local firms are facing energy price rises of more than four times the previous rate and could soon start to fail without government help when bills land this winter, local business leaders say. The Government energy regulator announced last week that it would raise the ‘energy price cap’ for households to £3,549 per year – […]
Aldi to boost recruitment in Kent while increasing staff pay rates nationwide
German retailer Aldi has begun an expansion drive which will see it hire 161 new staff across Kent, including Tunbridge Wells, as well as boosting salaries. Aldi is now the UK’s fifth-largest supermarket, but plans to grow even further by creating 2,000 permanent new jobs across the UK this year. Jobs in Kent will be […]
Read the Times of Tunbridge Wells 31st August 2022
Toy Appeal hunts for new premises as year set to be its most crucial yet
The cost-of-living crisis along with the arrival of hundreds of families from Ukraine, mean there are more children at risk of going without this Christmas, the organiser of the town’s Toy Appeal has said. The Mayor’s Toy Appeal, which has been running in Tunbridge Wells since 1987, could be set for its busiest year yet, […]
Royal Town makes the list of best staycation breaks – but only just
Tunbridge Wells has made a consumer magazines top 20 list of the best places in the UK to go for a staycation, but it only just made the grade. The Royal Town ranked in Which? magazine’s Best City Breaks in the UK 2022 within the small cities and town category came 19th, beating Hastings, which […]
