Tonbridge School wins a national award for its role in the local community
A leading local public school has been recognised by the Talk Education Awards for its invaluable year-round collaborative and fundraising work. Tonbridge School was named as a winner in the prestigious Talk Education Awards for Innovation in Education 2022. Its recognition is for ‘Community Engagement and Charity Fundraising’, with Tonbridge being one of just nine […]
Legion seeks veterans for Remembrance Service
A CALL has gone out for Armistice and Remembrance ceremonies in Tunbridge Wells this November, which are expected to attract thousands to the town but which could be missing some important faces. John Cohen, Chairman of the Royal British Legion’s (RBL) local branch is currently reaching out to veterans who are not in touch with […]
Wedding team make the finals at county’s awards
TWO wedding venues in Tunbridge Wells have been shortlisted in three categories for The Kent Wedding Awards. Elite Leisure Collection’s (ELC) Salomons Estate and One Warwick Park Hotel are finalists again at this year’s wedding awards, after an ELC venue won ‘best events team’ last year. The Tunbridge Wells-based venues are now finalists in three […]
Hospital waiting list reaches new milestone
WAITING lists for treatment at the Trust that runs Tunbridge Wells Hospital are now almost 50 per cent longer than before the Covid pandemic struck, figures have shown. The record numbers of people waiting for elective procedures and non-emergency surgery such as knee and hip operations at Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust (MTW) reached […]
Scouts raise £4,000 for homeless charity
SCOUT groups across Tunbridge Wells raised more than £4,000 for homeless charity Porchlight, by sleeping in cardboard boxes. The 200 scouts, aged between eight and 15, constructed their cardboard shelters and slept in them overnight on Friday October 7, at the Adamswell campsite in Langton Green. Nick Burgess, the District Scout Commissioner said: “From the […]
Village film festival attracts more than 250 entries
A FILM festival in Rusthall at the weekend attracted more than 250 short-film festival entries from 47 different countries. Organised by the Rusthall Community Cinema (RCC), the Rusthall Film Festival (October 15-16), grew out of a short-film project and attracted movie makers from around the world to enter the event, which was live-streamed across the […]
Mental health charity holds panel to mark World Menopause Day
HORMONAL changes around the menopause can lead to physical and emotional symptoms, but the addition of ‘watershed’ moments like children leaving home or parents aging can affect women’s wider wellbeing as well. With its mission to ‘get well, stay well and thrive’, local charity West Kent Mind (WKM) says that mission includes the menopause. In […]
Unemployment on the rise despite record vacancies due to shift to Universal Credit
THE number of people out of work in Tunbridge Wells rose last month, according to figures from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) released last week, despite record vacancies in the town. Tunbridge Wells recorded 1,640 claimants in September, up 1.9 per cent since August, and representing a 2.3 per cent claimant rate. This compared […]
Consultation into scrapping annual elections to go ahead
VOTERS in Tunbridge Wells will be asked whether the Council should scrap its annual elections in favour of a single ballot every four years, after the Town Hall voted to approve a consultation on the plans. Currently at Tunbridge Wells Borough Council, councillors are elected in thirds, with 16 of the Town Hall’s 48 members […]
Derelict for 22 years yet Council is still told to reject cinema site plans
THE Planning Committee at Tunbridge Wells Borough Council (TWBC) is to meet in just a month’s time to decide the fate of the town’s most notorious plot of land. The former site of the ABC Cinema on Mount Pleasant Road has sat abandoned and derelict in the middle of town for more than 20 years, […]
