Source gains
safety award THE Source Barwas voted run- ner-up in a town centre poll on night-time safety. The Rose Yard nightspot was
two summers ago forced to close for a few weeks following a police drug raid. Yet it was second only to JD
Wetherspoon-managed The Muggleton Inn in a poll of around 150 members of Town Centre Management. The Source Bar was ap- plauded for safety measures that include being the only venue in the county to have an ID scan on the door. Photos of every entrant are
also taken and logged onto a computer for police to review should they need to identify any customers who could have been involved in anti-social be- haviour. John Drogo, the Maidsafe in- telligence manager, said: “They have really pulled their finger out to make sure there is no trouble. Anyone trying to do drugs is reported.” Source Bar licensee Luke Bendall was also pleased to dis- cover his venue had been named runner-up in the Mix- mag Awards for best night out in the country. This was for Coma, a house music event that runs bi-monthly on a Saturday night.
New innings for old River Bar
A PROMINENT - but empty - riverside venue is set to become the latest outlet in Maidstone's flourishing restaurant economy. David Folb, who runs the successful Lashings nightspot in Upper Stone Street, has his eye on the abandoned River Bar, next to the Crown Courts. He plans to re-open it - possibly as soon as next month - as a brasserie and bar if talks about the lease are successful. The town already boasts 35 eating places - and
is about to get more: Restaurateurs have bought the former Post Of-
fice in King Street The old Chiesman furniture store in High
Street is to become a large Chinese buffet Mr Folb said he aimed to attract a different type of clientele to the proposed brasserie, not "horri-
ble people and yobs drinking outside". He said it would be a cafe-style eaterie, open
from 7am till late at night, serving "tasty, value- for-money meals". As the Downs Mail went to press, Mr Folb was
trying to negotiate a lease that did not "tie" Lash- ings in the way previous lessees had been. He said the building is in a terrible condition
and he had builders on hold, until the lease was signed. There would not be structural alterations but London designers would change its look. "It will be a place where you can have a nice
bottle of wine by the river and take in the ambi- ence and the view, rather than having 10 pints," added Mr Folb, who is also chairman of the star- studded Lashings World XI cricket club. The brasserie would bear the Lashings name and con- tain cricket memorabilia.
Women get in the pink spirit for Race For Life
SIX members of the NHS West Kent Stop Smok- ing Service raised more than £700 for Cancer Re- search UK by joining the 5k Race for Life at Mote Park.
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THE Curves staff team from Senacre Square stuck together in their pink wigs and outfits and, in spite of two of the staff being asthmatic, com- pleted the 10k race in 1hour 29minutes. Over £1,000 was collected by competing staff
and members. Curves had a stand on both the Saturday and Sunday of the event.
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