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  • [ March 25, 2023 ] Garlinge Primary School and Nursery holds reading celebration day Education
  • [ March 25, 2023 ] Ramsgate carpenter sharing mountain climbs and cold water sessions to promote mental health care and raise charity funds Community
  • [ March 25, 2023 ] Artist Tracey Emin officially opens TKE Studios and residency project – and reveals plans to buy Westbrook Loggia News
  • [ March 25, 2023 ] Four men arrested after violence in Ramsgate town and possible link to stabbing of taxi driver News
  • [ March 25, 2023 ] Police cordon in place in Ramsgate following reported stabbing News
  • [ March 24, 2023 ] Ramsgate Through The Senses festival returns for its second year with food, music, walks and more Events
  • [ March 24, 2023 ] Police seize 200 cannabis plants from Broadstairs property News
  • [ March 24, 2023 ] Emergency services called to report of pedestrian hit by car in Ramsgate News
  • [ March 24, 2023 ] Ramsgate photographer captures Northern Lights over Thanet News
  • [ March 24, 2023 ] Concert by Neptunes Choir with Charles Watson to raise funds for children’s bed project Off The Floor Events
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  • [ March 23, 2023 ] Super Science Week held at Wellesley Haddon Dene school Education
  • [ March 23, 2023 ] High Court grants Judicial Review bid to challenge government approval of Manston airport development News
  • [ March 23, 2023 ] Thanet steps up the fight to save nursery and children’s centres from closure in county council cuts Education
  • [ March 23, 2023 ] WW Martin receives environmental award for Poppy Fields development in Ramsgate News
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Month: February 2021

News

Dad still campaigning for justice over son’s murder 13 years on

February 28, 2021 Kathy Bailes 4

Thirteen years ago, on March 1 2008, a gunman took the life of Thanet dad-of-three David O’Leary at his home […]

Opinion

Opinion with Matthew Munson: Learning about life at home and at school

February 28, 2021 Kathy Bailes 0

Teaching children is hard, isn’t it? Teachers usually bear the brunt of the formal education – and, in fact, are […]

Community

Thanet community news: Margate Rotary, St Laurence juniors, Friends of QEQM, Disabled riding fundraiser, Broadstairs Town Council and Wards donation

February 28, 2021 Kathy Bailes 0

Margate Rotary Club Hospital grounds were given an early spring clean thanks to volunteers from Margate Rotary Club. Members gave […]

News

Residents take action to fill in ‘hidden drop’ below water at ‘Winter Gardens’ slipway

February 28, 2021 Kathy Bailes 36

Residents have rallied to fill in a  ‘hidden drop’ under a deceptively shallow-looking water area at the slipway behind the […]

News

Amazing Broadstairs teen takes on charity walk after beating bone cancer and covid

February 28, 2021 Kathy Bailes 0

A determined 13-year-old from Broadstairs who has beaten bone cancer and covid will take on a 25km walk in London […]

News

A dog has died in a Margate flat fire

February 28, 2021 Kathy Bailes 0

A dog has died in a Margate flat fire. Kent Fire and Rescue Service was called to reports of the […]

Property

Permission granted for 40-bed hotel in Cliftonville

February 28, 2021 Kathy Bailes 36

Planning permission has been granted for the creation of a 40-bed hotel in Cliftonville. The development, submitted by Long Eaton […]

Education

Exploding volcanoes at Upton Junior School

February 28, 2021 Kathy Bailes 0

Hands-on experiments to understand why volcanoes explode are erupting at Upton Junior School in Broadstairs. Children from Year 4 used […]

Business

Two popular Margate pubs will not reopen with current landlords due to impact of covid restrictions

February 27, 2021 Kathy Bailes 10

Two popular Thanet pubs will not be reopening their doors with the current landlords when businesses begin to resume this […]

News

Emergency services called to A299 crash near Cliffsend

February 27, 2021 Kathy Bailes 0

Emergency services were called to a collision on the A299 by Cliffsend this morning (February 27). Kent Police was called […]

News

Ramsgate house ‘closed down’ over drug dealing, assault and noise complaints

February 27, 2021 Kathy Bailes 16

A house in Ramsgate has been ‘closed down’ following repeated complaints about  drug dealing and anti-social behaviour at the address. […]

News

Man and woman assaulted in Westgate by two males wearing balaclavas

February 26, 2021 Kathy Bailes 0

Police are appealing for information after a man and a woman were assaulted in Westgate during the early hours of […]

News

Rise in Thanet covid rates but also acceleration of vaccination programme

February 26, 2021 Kathy Bailes 8

A rise in the  covid rates in Thanet over the last recorded seven days is due to increased cases relating […]

News

Man issued with penalty after police called to ‘unlawful gathering’ on Ramsgate seafront

February 26, 2021 Kathy Bailes 34

A man has been issued with a fixed penalty notice for breaching covid restrictions following a report to Kent Police […]

News

‘Heartbreak’ over vandalism to forest school and allotments in Dane Valley

February 26, 2021 Kathy Bailes 13

Kent Police officers are making enquiries following vandalism at Bright Start Community Forest School and allotments at Dane Valley. CCTV […]

Education

Ramsgate Arts Primary pupils explore the great outdoors

February 26, 2021 Kathy Bailes 0

Children are being encouraged to explore the great outdoors as part of Ramsgate Arts Primary’s ‘wander and wonder’ learning. Boys […]

News

Margate Independent Foodbank in urgent search for new base

February 26, 2021 Kathy Bailes 13

By Twinkle Troughton Margate Independent Food Bank is in urgent need of new premises after being given six weeks to […]

News

Body of striped dolphin rarely seen in UK waters found at Minnis Bay

February 25, 2021 Kathy Bailes 0

British Diver Marine Life Rescue medics were called out to Minnis Bay yesterday (February 24) to a report of a […]

News

Westgate man one of four jailed over County Lines drug networks

February 25, 2021 Kathy Bailes 4

A Westgate man is one of four drug dealers involved in supplying heroin and crack cocaine to the Medway towns […]

Opinion

Opinion with County Councillor Karen Constantine: Recovering a generation. Speaking up for Thanet’s children and young people

February 25, 2021 Kathy Bailes 0

There are a few news items this week that prompted me to write this column. The first was the analysis […]

Covid

Patients with Covid treated at home thanks to new service

February 25, 2021 Kathy Bailes 1

People who are ill with COVID-19 but did not want to go into hospital, have been able to have treatment […]

News

MP apologises over Manston lorry park payments gaff

February 25, 2021 Kathy Bailes 32

North Thanet MP Sir Roger Gale has made a public apology after incorrectly stating that Manston airport owners RiverOak Strategic […]

Covid

Westgate great-grandmother’s thanks to hospital staff who saved her life in Covid-19 battle

February 25, 2021 Kathy Bailes 0

By Liz Crudgington ‘A million pounds would not be enough to thank the NHS staff who saved my life.’ So […]

Education

This is how qualifications – from GCSEs to occupational studies – will be awarded in 2021

February 25, 2021 Kathy Bailes 3

The Office of Qualifications and Examinations Regulation (Ofqual) has today (February 25) published documents outlining how qualification grades will be assessed […]

Covid

More people living with learning disabilities to be offered covid vaccine in priority group 6

February 25, 2021 Kathy Bailes 0

Some 150,000 more people living with learning difficulties will be offered the covid vaccine in priority group six. The decision […]

News

Stagecoach to run free shuttle bus service to Thanet’s large-scale vaccination centre

February 25, 2021 Kathy Bailes 0

Bus operator Stagecoach will provide a free shuttle bus service to Thanet’s newly opened mass vaccination centre at the Saga […]

Opinion

Opinion with Melissa Todd: Anxious about the impending end of covid restrictions

February 24, 2021 Kathy Bailes 10

I hate the expression “roadmap”, but we seem to be stuck with it, cliche and map both. When it was […]

News

KCC Lib Dem group leader quits after eight years at County Hall

February 24, 2021 Kathy Bailes 4

By Local Democracy Reporter Ciaran Duggan Kent County Council’s (KCC) main opposition leader has revealed he will be leaving his role […]

News

Council will not “be caught with trousers down” by predicted surge of visitors to Thanet this year

February 24, 2021 Kathy Bailes 33

Thanet council is determined not to “be caught with its trousers down” when visitors are predicted to return to the […]

Community

Eight Thanet community organisations receive grants to support their work

February 24, 2021 Kathy Bailes 1

Eight charitable organisations in Thanet have received a share of more than £25,000 from the Albert Burns Children’s Charitable Trust […]

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