Table talk with Eat Like a Local

Olympian Louis Smith

So let’s start by you telling us a little bit about yourselves. What is your background and are you based in Tunbridge Wells? We’re old schoolmates who left The Skinners’ School quite some time ago and caught up again in Sydney in 2010, where there happened to be a thriving Tunbridge Wells ex-pat community. I […]

Viva vegan wine!

Olympian Louis Smith

Every year hundreds of thousands of Brits sign up for the Veganuary campaign – a pledge to embrace plant-based diets for a month and beyond. A record 580,00 people got involved in the 2021 campaign from over 200 countries. A big landmark of the last campaign was the involvement of all of the UK’s major […]

How to find your inner peace without a passport to paradise

Olympian Louis Smith

When I found myself burnt out and broken at the end of a truly terrible year, I knew I needed to make some changes. A perfect storm of stressful life events (relocating across the country to Tunbridge Wells, major job moves, an untimely death in the family) had left me feeling lost, exhausted and desperate […]

Deadline looming to get your business recognised

Olympian Louis Smith

The 2022 gala event at Salomons Estate on March 24 will see ten businesses take away a coveted award, which will be handed to them by none other than GB News anchor and former This Morning host, Eamonn Holmes. Scores of businesses have so far applied to enter this year’s award, but there are dozens […]

Hunt is on to fill an uncommon role

Olympian Louis Smith

Ahead of the retirement of Warden Steve Budden, the Commons Conservators are advertising for a new ‘Ranger’ for Tunbridge Wells and Rusthall Commons – the combined jewel in the crown of the area. Under the new title of Ranger, the applicant will have huge boots to fill as Steve is in charge of a total […]

Was it a bumper year for panto and ice rink… oh yes it was!

Olympian Louis Smith

Skate TW – the town’s annual ice rink in Calverley Grounds – broke office ticket sales. And not only was the ice rink a record-breaking success, but ticket sales for this year’s production of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs at the Assembly Hall Theatre, starring Strictly judge Shirley Ballas, almost beat the previous record […]

Council numbers set to be reduced

Olympian Louis Smith

Currently, the Council, which is under no overall control, has 48 councillors who represent the borough’s 50,000 voters in 20 wards. TWBC was contacted by the Local Government Boundary Commission for England [LGBCE] in December 2020 after it discovered a disparity between the number of electors and councillors at the Town Hall.  The local elections […]

Pupils jump for joy after Olympic donation for gymnastic hopefuls

Olympian Louis Smith

Beijing silver and bronze medal winner Louis Smith had signed the pommel horse for a gym academy run by Elite Leisure Collection (ELC), the group that owns One Media, publisher of Times. After the gym academy finished, ELC decided to donate the apparatus to Frant Primary School, to help springboard the pupils’ gymnastics class. Amanda […]

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