Read the Times of Tunbridge Wells 2nd March 2022
More than 30 businesses make the grade as finalists for the Times Business Awards 2022
With more than 100 applications returned, it has been one of the most heavily entered Times Business Awards since the event began back in 2016. Entrants this year have been incredibly varied, ranging from hair salons and solicitors to recruitment and HR firms. Following a challenging two years for the businesses in West Kent, those […]
Hever Festival is back with a Bond (girl)!
Hever Festival covers the range of performing arts and history, but there are certain core themes, Theatre Director Ailsa Molyneux told the Times. “Working with the great expertise at Hever Castle is very important to us. We are holding the second in a trilogy of talks by Dr Owen Emerson, a world leader in the […]
Jeweller helps bring women’s sport to the fore
G Collins & Sons, based in the High Street, has stepped into the fore to offer the professional sportswomen help with international travel expenses as they compete in the Ladies’ European Tour. UK golfers Gabriella Cowley, Cloe Frankish and Chloe Williams are represented by PR Sports Management (PRSM), who had told the jewellers about the […]
Council scraps fees for Jubilee street parties
The move means residents have until March 31 to submit plans for their proposed one-day street party held on the four-day weekend, and will not have to pay the usual £75 fee for such an event, KCC confirmed this week. Organisers, however, must agree not to publicise their event or charge a fee to residents […]
Tunbridge Wells teacher helps her former Jamaican school
During a visit to the Caribbean island early in 2020, Lorna Culmer was approached by a neighbour’s children asking to use her computer or tablet for schoolwork. The former teacher at St Augustine’s Catholic Primary School in Tunbridge Wells said: “I thought: ‘You must be able to do that at school,’ but they couldn’t. The […]
A quarter of adults in Tunbridge Wells not boosted as ‘Freedom Day’ finally arrives
With all Covid restrictions lifted on Thursday (February 24) on so-called ‘Freedom Day’, NHS data shows 23.3 per cent of over-18s in Tunbridge Wells did not bother getting the jab. Last year the government had planned for all UK adults over 18 to be triple jabbed by the end of December. It came amid fears […]
Sheep escape in Storm Ewe-nice chaos
Quick-witted residents herded the sheep into their residential close, penning them behind the electric gates to the apartments’ car park in Copperfields, just behind Forest Road. One of the residents, Paula Bates, said: “The farmer was called to fetch them home, but they did leave quite a few calling cards behind. “Another good neighbour cleared […]
Councils count the cost after the lashing by Storm Eunice downs trees and cuts power
While there were no reported injuries or deaths in the area, officials say the damage caused by the storm is set to cost millions. Following a rare Met Office ‘red warning’, the storm front arrived early in the morning with the wind picking increasing in ferocity from around 40mph at 10am to more than 67mph […]
On your marks… half marathon returns after two years with a thousand runners braving high winds
The overall winner and men’s race winner was Liam White, getting round the 13.1 mile course in 1:13:40. The women’s race winner was Helen Gaunt, racing in the 35-44 year female category, and finishing with a winning time of 1:23:22. “Numbers were a bit down on previous years, due to Covid, the weather and everything […]
