Tunbridge Wells MP reveals he voted against PM in no confidence vote
GREG Clark has broken his silence over Covid rule breaking in Downing Street and has told the Times he voted against the PM in this week’s vote of no confidence. The Tunbridge Wells MP has remained tight-lipped over the scandals that engulfed the PM earlier this year when Mr Johnson was fined by the Met […]
PCC accuses Met Police of ‘poaching’ its officers with recruitment campaign
The Metropolitan Police is offering experienced officers a one-off bonus of £5,000 if they transfer to the London force. The capital’s police force has combined their recruitment drive with an advertising campaign carried in local newspapers across the home counties, including in the Times. All police forces in England and Wales are recruiting to meet […]
MP unavailable for comment on ‘Partygate’ as long-awaited Sue Gray report is published
The Tunbridge Wells MP had previously declined to comment on the scandal when it broke earlier this year, telling the Times that while he understood ‘the anger that people feel about the revelations concerning what happened in Downing Street in 2020’ he wanted to wait until ‘all the information is known’ before commenting. Mr Clark […]
Tunbridge Wells Council votes in a new leader as Lib-Dem led coalition takes charge
Tunbridge Wells Borough Council (TWBC) has voted in the head of the Lib Dem group as the authority’s new Council Leader, ending two decades of Conservative rule. At Wednesday’s (May 25) Full Council meeting, the first since the May 5 elections that saw the Lib Dem group overtake the Tories as the largest party at […]
Report into hospital crimes delayed due to the sheer ‘volume of evidence’
In a progress update from the Independent Inquiry set up by the Health Secretary following Fuller’s conviction last year, chairman Sir Jonathan Michael says the first phase of the inquiry is ‘firmly under way’. But he added: “Because the Inquiry has already received a greater volume of evidence than had been expected, the initial report […]
Tunbridge Wells still has no Council as fractures appear in coalition plans
An agreement still hasn’t been reached on who will run the Council in Tunbridge Wells following the defeat of the Conservative party at the local elections earlier this month. Last night as the Times went to press [May 17], members of the Lib Dems, Alliance and Labour party were meeting to thrash out a plan […]
From Tunbridge Wells to Tokyo -MP becomes UK’s man in Japan
The unpaid, voluntary role will involve the Tunbridge Wells MP promoting UK trade with the pacific nation and is likely to see Mr Clark make regular trips to Tokyo as well as other Japanese cities. Trade Envoys are parliamentarians appointed by the Prime Minister that are drawn from both the Lords and the Commons and […]
Conservatives lose control of Council after twenty years of being in charge
The Conservative party will no longer be running Tunbridge Wells Borough Council (TWBC) after the group lost eight seats following the local elections last week. On Thursday (May 5), 16 wards at the No Overall Control authority went to the polls. The Tories, who have been running the Council as a minority party since the […]
Teen friends trade up from a penny and donate £100 to cancer charity
Polly Taylor from the Pickering Cancer Drop-in Centre in Monson Road says she was ‘overwhelmed’ when the four youngsters walked in with the money earlier this month. The penny challenge was the brainchild of 14-year-old Elvis Dunjohn, a Tunbridge Wells Boys Grammar School pupil, who got the idea from a class project. He said: “We […]
Society hopes to buy Decimus Burton complex
Number 9-10 Crescent Road was part of the Calverley Estate created by Decimus Burton, one of England’s foremost architects and urban designers of the 19th century. Other buildings in the town designed by the architect include Trinity Theatre and Hotel du Vin, which was revamped by Decimus Burton to be more in keeping with the […]
