Danielle – pride of Maidstone after her death
BARMING’S Danielle Brooker (18), who died after a common cold turned to a brain infection, has been honoured posthumously with a Pride of Maidstone award for her legacy of body organs which saved the lives of three pa- tients at Kings College Hospital, London. She watched a TV programme before her illness and then in- spired 15 of her family and friends to sign the national organ donor register. Many were at the Town Hall
when the Mayor (Cllr Eric Hot- son) presented the certificate to Danielle’s mother. Other Pride of Maidstone awards went to: Geoff Norrington, of Barming, who has continued a successful campaign with the NHS for changes in how people can appeal for life-saving or life-prolonging treatments
Slight knock could have caused death
A92-YEAR-OLD resident of the Garden of England Park in Greenway Lane, Harrietsham, suffered a brain haemorrhage due to some kind of trauma, an inquest heard. Victoria Stephenson died suddenly at her retirement park home in May last year. Pathologist David Rouse said
that, mainly due to old age, her brain had shrunk, meaning something minor, such as a knock, to the head could have caused it.
following the death of his wife Sheila from bowel cancer. Deepak Myanger, post-master at Grove Green, who ran six half marathons last year to raise £2,300 for Kent Air Ambulance. StopKIG campaign team which devotedly united the community and battled at a 36-day public in- quiry to defeat the AXA plan for a rail/road
interchange at
Bearsted/Thurnham. Dennis Fowle, Downs Mail cam-
paigning journalist, for his battle to retain women’s and children’s
services in Maidstone Hospital and chair- manship of campaign group MASH. Joan Macdonald (93), just retired from
managing the Heart of Kent Hospice shop at Lenham after 11 years. Now she runs a vil- lage stall for Help for Heroes. Denise and Richard Pellant who have
A 31-YEAR-OLD woman was taken to hospital in a serious condition after falling off a horse in Bearsted. The woman, who is a member
of the Squirrells Riding School in Water Lane, Thurnham, was riding in The Street, near the White Horse pub, on Sunday
started a fund for games and TVs for chil- dren in local hospitals and help for other sick children in memory of their son Luke (11) who died of leukaemia. Geoff Miles, who runs Maidstone Studios,
Grove Green – a business leader and top producer who has made the studios one of the busiest TV sites outside London. Martin Brockman (23), the decathlete
who won a bronze at the Commonwealth Games in Delhi and has Olympic ambitions. Pam Crooks, who has helped hundreds of families as a volunteer with Maidstone Me- diation Service since she joined in 1992. Bonny Malhotra, chief executive of Maid-
stone’s Citizens’ Advice Bureau, which he joined 17 years ago. An award has also been presented in his
Weavering home to Maidstone’s last Battle of Britain pilot Jimmy Corbin. The awards are run by Maidstone Coun- cil and the Kent Messenger.
Injured horse rider in hospital
morning, February 20. Following the fall, the horse
ran away, and police had to close the road to traffic. The woman was taken to Kings Col- lege Hospital in London but her condition stabilised and she was making a recovery as the Downs Mail went to press.
Vicarage ‘needs electronic gates’
APPLICANT Saul Halpern wants to erect a pair of electrically con- trolled gates at The Old Vicarage, The Street, Boxley. According to the planning statement: “The client owns two dogs…along with se- curity concerns on this secluded site have led him to the conclu- sion that he needs some form of access control on the site.
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