Bringing gifts to those that might go without
THE MAYOR’S Toy Appeal opened this weekend, collecting presents through its Amazon Wishlist, or asking people to buy locally and drop off at various spots around the area. For three decades, the appeal has been ensuring disadvantaged children in the borough receive presents, which also offers hard-pressed parents a relief from the pressures of the […]
Christmas is the time of year for giving
Annual appeals more important as cost-of-living crisis bites hard across the borough CHRISTMAS is fast approaching, and many people are looking forward to spending time with family, over-indulging in food and drink, and exchanging gifts. However, for some people, the season brings worries, as they struggle to make ends meet, or find it difficult […]
Christmas arrives as the town’s lights are turned on in the annual ‘Big Reveal’
THOUSANDS of people descended on Tunbridge Wells town centre at the weekend for not one, but two Christmas light switch-ons. Light schemes, designed and funded by the Royal Tunbridge Wells Together Business Improvement District (BID) since 2020, were turned on all over the town on Saturday (November 19). The event started with carols in Chapel […]
Rare white deer spotted roaming the Tunbridge Wells countryside
A LONE white deer has become a natural wonder for one local resident in his walks around the southwest edge of Tunbridge Wells. Having moved to the town in February, Mark Foxwell, a director at PR company Sharp Minds Communications, has spent hours walking through the wild places of Broadwater Warren. However, another companion has […]
MP Tom Tugendhat banned from driving for six months
THE MP for Tonbridge & Malling has been banned from driving for six months after being caught with his mobile phone in his hand while at the wheel. Security minister Tom Tugendhat was stopped by police in his Skoda 4×4 in Wandsworth on April 14. As previously reported in the Times, Mr Tugendhat, who lives […]
Gig Guide November 23 to December 6
Times music correspondent Paul Dunton shares his top gig picks for the next fortnight… The Grey Lady Music Lounge, The Pantiles All event information and tickets available at www.thegreylady.co.uk 25/11 Into The Blue 27/11 The Grey Lady Sessions: Bea Everett + The Varlies 02/12 Disco Odyssey 03/12 Project 5 04/12 The Grey Lady Sessions: […]
“We will be one school with one vision and ethos”
Dulwich Prep in Cranbrook has announced that at the start of the new academic year it will have a larger number of older pupils, a new upper school head, and also a new name. The Times finds out more… THE Governors of Dulwich Prep, an independent day and flexible boarding school for girls and […]
Voting open for Kent Youth County Council
VOTING is underway for the Kent Youth County Council (KYCC), in which not only do the candidates have to be 11-18 years old, but the voters do, too. Anyone in this age group living, working or going to school in Kent is eligible to vote for their pick of local candidates and also the three […]
Rotary Club plants crocuses for awareness of World Polio Day
PLANTING has finished in this year’s Rotary International polio awareness campaign, with 4,000 purple crocus bulbs now in the ground ready to make a spectacular display in spring. The Rotary Club of Tunbridge Wells distributed about half of the bulbs to schools and organisations around town and completed the job at Dunorlan Park earlier this […]
Tunbridge Wells Mela organiser and broadcaster-comedian Paul O’Grady among seven new Kent Deputy Lieutenants
KENT’S royal representative, the Lord Lieutenant Lady Colgrain, has chosen seven new Deputy Lieutenants (DL) to take up the non-political roles supporting her work, the Crown and the county. Nominations were made in April, under the reign of the late Queen, but were only announced last week (November 7), said one new nominee, Gurvinder Sandher […]
