How to get involved in the Times Business Awards 2022
One of Britain’s most well-known faces from breakfast and daytime TV, Eammon Holmes, will be presenting the accolades at a black tie gala dinner at Salomons Estate on Friday, March 24. While six of the ten main award categories are being sponsored by local businesses, there are four opportunities remaining. They are: Creative Business of […]
Wedding team scoops big award after record year for people tying the knot
The Salomons Events Team has taken first place in the ‘Best Events Team’ category at the Kent Wedding Awards [KWA] 2021/22. It comes following one of the most difficult years for the wedding sector that has had to cope with lockdowns and other Covid restrictions. Each year over 7000 couples choose Kent to get married, […]
MPs under fire over second jobs but what about their first jobs?
MEMBERS of Parliament have come in for some strong criticism in recent weeks following issues around standards in public life and second jobs away from Westminster. Tory MP Owen Paterson resigned last month after he was found to have lobbied for two companies paying him more than £100,000 a year. Another Conservative MP Sir Geoffrey […]
Grammars make the grade as best schools in UK announced
Parent Power, The Sunday Times Schools Guide 2022, which was published by the national newspaper at the weekend, has listed the best secondary schools in the region. Tonbridge Grammar School, The Judd School – also in Tonbridge – and Tunbridge Wells Grammar School are all in the top ten of best performing across the Southeast. […]
Bollywood brings historic match to big screen as county cricket set for a return
The venue, which is near to Hawkenbury, is currently used by Tunbridge Wells Cricket Club in the summer months and by Tunbridge Wells Hockey Club in the winter. Yet the historic ground, which is owned by Tunbridge Wells Borough Council, has a history of hosting county and international games. It was first used by Kent […]
INTERVIEW: Peter Allinson – Whirligig Toys
SO PETER, HOW DID WHIRLIGIG COME ABOUT? Basically, we spotted a gap in the market. Originally a primary school teacher, I taught children aged 8 to 10 years old. When our nieces and nephews reached this age, I realised that we had grown out of all the lovely toy shops we visited when they were […]
Three’s company this Christmas
Having already produced three very successful interactive theatrical dining experiences over the past couple of years – A Midsummer Night’s Dream at Kingdom and A Christmas Carol and Black Fate at The Beacon, the experimental theatre troupe Get Out of My Space (GOOMS) is back with a fourth dramatic dining offering: The Three Scrooges which […]
Meet the street: Camden Road
Camden Road is thriving. And so it should be – with a combination of long-established neighbourhood favourites, and new premises throwing their doors open at an encouraging rate, this vibrant street is fast becoming the place to be for town centre indies. It’s the area best known for off the beaten path businesses, that aren’t […]
Spirit of Christmas is alive and well as Santa does his rounds
Santa and his elves, with their friends at the RTW Round Table, are out in force again this year, collecting for Nourish Community Food Bank. A member of the Roundtable said the recent bad weather certainly didn’t dampen people’s moods. “We’re pleased to say over a tonne of food has been donated already. The kind […]
The most wonderful time of the year to see live music locally…
With the party season now upon us I thought this would be a good opportunity to highlight many of the wonderful live music events happening. And the good news is there’s plenty of genre variety so there’s something for everyone to enjoy. Internationally renowned guitarist Richard Durrant will be performing a candlelit show at Trinity […]
