Going Out: Easter holiday fun for the young
Hop to it with the two giant rabbits of Groombridge Place, who help the children with the clues on their way to win a sweet treat. Punch and Judy are playing at 11am and 2pm over the weekends of 9-10 and 16-17 April. Older children may particularly enjoy the UK Owl and Raptor Centre’s birds […]
Primary pupils go extra mile to earn thousands in charity sponsorship walk for people of Ukraine
A sponsored walk for Ukraine by St John’s primary pupils ended up totalling the distance from Tunbridge Wells to Lviv in western Ukraine, thanks to the perseverance of staff and over 600 children walking – and even running. The event was the initiative of British-Slovakian pupil Leon, age nine, whose concern about the news from […]
Microbrewery is hitting the right notes with its music-themed beers
Pig & Porter, which began trading in the town in 2013, is already a CAMRA London & South East Specialist beer award winner and is sure these newly launched offerings will certainly not leave customers feeling flat. Founder Robin Wright said: “At Pig & Porter, every one of our beers is made with our customers […]
Tunbridge Wells’ Kes issues warning to motoring litterbugs
The founder of Tunbridge Wells-based organisation Gabo Wildlife, Carly Ahlen, received a call on February 8 about an injured bird of prey on Bidborough Ridge. “The lady who called had tried to rescue it herself, but to no avail as the kestrel escaped into some thick brambles,” Carly told the Times. “Lola [the kestrel] had […]
Roll of honour: The Times Business Awards 2022 Winners
Jess Gibson (The TN Card), Award sponsor Alexander Pushkin (Pushkin Antiques) & Eamonn Holmes START-UP BUSINESS OF THE YEAR Name of winning business:TN Card About: Set up in February 2020, the TN Card enables people to secure rewards and offers whilst purchasing locally and supporting the High Street. Award sponsor: Pushkin Antiques “I can’t […]
Celebrating the best in business
The event at Salomons Estate on Thursday (March 24) was hosted by none other than daytime and breakfast TV legend, Eamonn Holmes. Eamonn treated the audience to his story of getting into broadcast journalism from a family which had never known such a career. After he finished his journalism training, his mother told him: ‘You’ll […]
Business advisors say Rishi’s statement lacked ‘substance’
Rishi Sunak unveiled several measures to combat the cost-of-living crisis, including the threshold at which people start paying National Insurance and a 5p cut to fuel duty. Mr Sunak says the measures will ‘put billions back into the pockets of people across the UK and delivers the biggest net cut to personal taxes in over […]
A dog day afternoon down by the reservoir
More than 450 dogs and 1,839 of their twolegged friends flocked to the shores of the reservoir in Lamberhurst on a Saturday. The event’s dog show went on throughout the day, with five categories, from ‘most handsome’ and ‘prettiest’ to ‘dog the judge would most like to take home’. The last prize drew the biggest […]
Mortgages for local buyers now 16 times salary
Last week the Office for National Statistics (ONS) released its monthly price index which saw the average cost of a UK home rise £24,000 in January. This puts the average UK house price at a record level of £274,000. Estate agents have said that this means the average house now costs eight times the median […]
TV presenter Kate Humble and footballer Pat Nevin join headline acts for literary festival
Kate Humble is a writer, smallholder, campaigner and one of the UK’s best-known TV presenters. She is the author of many books – Friend For Life, Humble By Nature, A Year Of Living Simply and Thinking On My Feet, which was shortlisted for both the Wainwright Prize and the Edward Stanford Travel Memoir of the […]
