Tunbridge Wells houses earning £15,000 a year as Kent properties outperform UK
According to the 30th edition of the Kent Property Market Report, released last week by Caxtons Chartered Surveyors, Kent County Council and Locate in Kent, property prices across the county have increased by 5.8 per cent over the last 12 months. Expensive The highest rates of growth of 6.7 per cent were experienced in Canterbury […]
TN Card goes digital thanks to green funding
The TN card, which celebrates its second birthday in February, offers rewards to shoppers at hundreds of locations across the TN postcode. The App will not only allow card holders to get discounts/rewards through their phone, but also will show locations of all the nearby places where the TN card is accepted. It comes after […]
The Pantiles set to become a Hive of co-working activity
The Hive, which already has successful commercial sites in Cranbrook and Flimwell, has to open a new site offering flexible working solutions at 12-16 The Pantiles – the former home of clothing retailer Jack Wills. Owned and managed by Cranbrook-based co-founders, Emma and Stuart Smith, the Greek-themed business centre, complete with a taverna dining experience, […]
Wetherspoons completes £700,000 restoration of historic Opera House
The Opera House in Mount Pleasant Road needed to be repaired after part of the roof collapsed in 2020. It had been discovered that the dome ceiling on the century old building was in need of restoration to ensure it did not degrade further. The roof had been repaired once before after it was bombed […]
“In my experience, as a teacher and counsellor, bullying is a symptom of emotional distress”
The theme of this year’s National Anti-Bullying Week, taking place from November 15 to 19th, is ‘One Kind Word’. This annual event aims to raise awareness of the bullying of children at school and elsewhere and to highlight ways of preventing and responding to it. I believe bullying is one of the most serious and […]
Annual firework display makes a record-breaking return to park
More than 13,000 visited Dunorlan Park on Saturday [November 6], the highest number of people to turn up to watch the display in its 64-year history. The annual fireworks event, which is organised by Royal Tunbridge Wells Round Table to coincide with Guy Fawkes Day, has been running since 1957 but last year, due to […]
New local radio station is aimed at community
West Kent Radio started 60 years ago as a hospital station, but from the end of last month, they have begun transmitting live across the area on FM for the first time. The new licensed station is broadcasting from Camden Road, and listeners will be able to tune in on frequencies 95.5 and 106.7 on […]
MP admits that the ‘sleaze’ vote was clearly ‘a mistake’
The MP was one of three local members of parliament approached by the Times and asked to respond to critics branding the attempt to block the suspension as ‘sleaze’ and a ‘brazen attempt to protect their own’. Owen Paterson was facing a 30-day suspension for an ‘egregious’ breach of lobbying rules following an investigation by […]
Help Santa with gifts for children who might otherwise miss out
Cllr Chris Woodward is the latest Tunbridge Wells Mayor to head up the appeal, which was started in 1987 to ensure children in the Borough did not have to go without at Christmas time. In the last 36 years, the Toy Appeal has ensured tens of thousands of children who may otherwise have gone without […]
Read the Times of Tunbridge Wells 10th November 2021
