Dover & Folkestone Locals

The Chairman of Dover District Council is arranging a Community Tea Party for local residents to come together to celebrate the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee, and to share their memories of the Queen ascending to the throne and of the Coronation.

The community event is for invited guests only, and is being held at Dover Town Hall on Thursday 10 May. The Chairman of Dover District Council, Cllr Sue Nicholas has invited Town and Parish Councils to select members of the community who wish to come along and share their memories of the time. There will be a range of entertainment, including St Edmund’s School performers, and students from K College will be making a special Diamond Jubilee cake.

For more information, please call the Chairman’s office at Dover District Council on 01304 872003.

A range of colourful artwork, information displays and environmental improvements for the Barton Path in Dover was celebrated at a launch event at the riverside path on Wednesday, (18 April).

The improvements follow the hard work of local people and the success of an exciting community partnership project, and a range of partners and members of the community came along for the formal opening of the works.

The project began after the London Road Community Forum carried out a successful clean up of the old scrap yard alongside the Barton Path last year. Dover District Community Safety Partnership, KCC Community Wardens, and DDC Community Development and Waste Services met to look at ways to improve the path. The Community Safety Partnership secured funding through Clean Kent and provided additional funding for the project....

Folkestone Olympic Torch Relay - Marshal Volunteers
Are you interested in seeing the Olympic Torch first hand? Want to be involved in the Torch's journey through our district? Then why not sign apply to be a volunteer marshal.
We are looking for people to assist Shepway District Council in safely managing the route of the Olympic torch Relay through Hythe, Seabrook, Sandgate and Folkestone by marshalling along the route on Wednesday 18th July 2012.
If you are interested, read the job description below and fill in the online application form.

Key Roles:

• Provide an excellent welcome and service to the spectators viewing the Torch Relay
• Marshal spectators along the route, monitoring and controlling crowds to ensure safety
• Liaise and work with other marshals and supervisors, reporting any...

Just heard that Dover Grand Shaft has been vandalised by a group of 13-16 year olds.

Light sockets and flourescent tubes ripped out resulting in hundreds of pounds of damage. Police were called but as they were not caught in the act no further action will be taken.

Really does make my blood boil, especially after all the hard work that people put into keeping the Grand Shaft in order. What makes it even more sad is that efforts the three girls put in last week to raise funds for the Grand Shaft.

If theres anything I can do to help, please dont hesitate to ask.

Bleriot XI Monoplane at Dover Transport Museum this weekend.
For one weekend only, a replica Beriot XI monoplane will be on display at Dover Transport Museum, tomorrow (Saturday 14th April) and Sunday (15th April), specially brought to Dover from Den Haag in the Netherlands as part of the Harriet Quimby Centenary weekend.

We are incredibly fortunate to have this exceedingly rare aircraft on display in Dover, there is only one other in the country (at The Shuttleworth Collection in Bedfordshire) so please do come along and get up close and personal with the aircraft that Louis Bleriot himself crossed the Channel in, in 1909 and that Harriet Quimby borrowed from Bleriot when she became the first woman to cross the Channel solo on 16th April 1912.

The Harriet Quimby Centenary Project would like to express their deep gratitude to P&O Ferries for their...