Residents pay their respects to the fallen who gave their all
OVER 1,000 people turned out for the annual Remembrance Sunday ceremony at Tunbridge Wells Town Hall last week, with hundreds attending other gatherings across the borough. Separate, smaller events were held on Armistice Day (November 11) at the War Memorial and elsewhere in Tunbridge Wells, but the main focus on Remembrance Sunday (November 13) was […]
Writer creates room for books in St John’s pop-up
A St Johns-based writer is testing the town’s appetite for an independent bookshop, with the launch of a ‘curated’ pop-up inside another local business in the run-up to Christmas. Drawing on writing contacts, non-fiction writer and novelist Anna Wharton has put together what will be a constantly-refreshing collection of recent releases and classics in each […]
New Warm Space opens in church hall
ANOTHER organisation in Tunbridge Wells has joined the ‘Warm Spaces’ scheme in preparation for winter. The King Charles the Martyr church has opened its church hall at 3 Warwick Park weekly on Friday afternoons, to offer a heated indoor location, and will serve hot drinks and tea, as well as cakes and soup. A spokesperson […]
Tunbridge Wells girl, 16, gets a taste of a top job
A 16-YEAR-OLD from Tunbridge Wells was one of 26 girls taking part in a ‘takeover’ across 20 organisations, as part of a charity’s celebration of International Day of the Girl Child (October 11). Elodie’s takeover, organised by Plan International UK, saw her spending the day as a vice president at AstraZeneca’s research and development site […]
Town prepares to honour fallen with two Remembrance events
TWO official Remembrance events are planned for this week, as Armistice Day (November 11) falls on Friday and Remembrance Sunday on November 13. At the official Armistice Day town ceremony, Tunbridge Wells Mayor Cllr Godfrey Bland will join representatives of the Royal British Legion (RBL) at the War Memorial at 10:45am for a short ceremony […]
Pub festival returns to park with chart-topping music acts
THE popular Pub in the Park festival is to return to Tunbridge Wells next July with some of the most memorable music acts from the noughties. Celebrity chef Tom Kerridge returns to Dunorlan Park on July 7-9, where he will be joined on Saturday evening by chart-topping pop band McFly. London drum and bass trio […]
Survey finds 90 per cent of women have been harassed
MORE than 90 per cent of female residents in Tunbridge Wells have experienced some form harassment in the town, a survey has found. The Violence Against Women and Girls (VAWG) survey was run this spring by the local branch of women’s movement Soroptimist International to coincide with International Women’s Day in March. The report ‘Spotlight […]
House prices to plummet by more than £50,000 next year
THE days of rocketing house prices in Tunbridge Wells could soon be coming to an end, after a leading estate agent said it expects 11 per cent will be wiped off local property prices by the end of next year. The predictions, made by Savills, came as the Bank of England (BoE) introduced the largest […]
Dunorlan Park skies light up for 65th time
TUNBRIDGE WELLS’ annual fireworks display got off to a bang at the weekend, despite the dreary weather that saw other events cancelled. More than 8,000 attended the display put on by the Royal Tunbridge Wells Round Table in Dunorlan Park on Saturday November 5. The event has been running in the town since 1957 and […]
Hawkenbury car collector sells off 47 microcars for £300,000
A KENT collector of ‘microcars’ has sold off 47 of the miniature motors at auction for almost £300,000. The vehicles were part of a collection accumulated over 50 years by Jean and Edwin Hammond from Hawkenbury, near Staplehurst and formed the Hammond Microcar Museum Collection. Among them is a blue Peel P50, similar to one […]
