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Care home cash crisis
Kent County Council’s spending on adult social care has almost doubled in the last five years, from £438 million in 2021/22 to £787.5 million in the new budget for 2026/27 – 47.8 per cent of the authority’s total budget for the year. And these numbers...
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Where there’s a will...
PLANS for a sprawling 1,600-home estate on Thanet farmland could be derailed – after a 384-year-old will emerged as the centrepiece of a High Court challenge. The huge development in Birchington, near Margate, has already been given the green light by...
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Missed chance: Hospital under fire over failure to raise alarm
A HOSPITAL trust has been accused of missing an earlier opportunity to alert health officials about a case of meningitis in Kent. A patient first presented to The Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother Hospital in Margate on the evening of Wednesday, March...
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BARNES-MILLER FIRED UP FOR SLALOM CHALLENGE AFTER DISAPPOINTMENT IN SNOWBOARD CROSS
BARNES-MILLER FIRED UP FOR SLALOM CHALLENGE AFTER DISAPPOINTMENT IN SNOWBOARD CROSS
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Anger as school announces shock merger
PARENTS gathered outside St Lawrence College in Ramsgate last Friday to protest against the decision to merge the school with Dover College – warning that the move could be “damaging” for their children’s educations. The school revealed that last week...
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Pay up or sell up
THE owners of Margate’s troubleplagued Arlington House tower block have told residents they will have to each pay a £40,000 service charge for refurbishment works – and that they will have to remortgage, take out loans, or sell up if they cannot afford...
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Harmless pride – or a message of intolerance?
THANET has been left divided by the appearance of Union and St George’s flags across the district, with residents and politicians clashing over whether the displays represent “patriotic pride” or “targeted intolerance”. The debate follows a formal...
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Multimillion-pound makeover FUNDING WINS FOR MARGATE, RAMSGATE AND BROADSTAIRS AS COUNCIL CONSIDERS DRAFT SPENDING BUDGET
Multimillion-pound makeover
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24-hour slots centre on isle’s coolest street
A NEW “adult gaming centre” has been granted a licence to open 24 hours a day in Thanet, despite neighbours’ concerns. Cain’s Amusements already has premises just a few doors down from the new site in Cliftonville’s Northdown Road, dubbed by Time Out...
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Family’s agony as council workers dump tree on grave
A MAN was left fuming after discovering council workers had dumped a felled tree on his aunt’s grave. Luther Oakes, 36, was shocked to find the foliage when he visited Ramsgate Cemetery in Kent earlier this month. The retail worker arrived to clean...
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