MP announces retirement
TONBRIDGE and Malling MP Sir John Stanley has announced his retirement, after represent- ing the constituency for 40 years. Sir John, who will leave at the
age of 73 at the end of this Par- liament, said: “I think that will be the right time for me to hang up my boots.” For three and a half years, he
was parliamentary private sec- retary to Margaret Thatcher, and also served terms as Minister for
Housing, Minister for the Armed Forces and as Deputy Secretary of State in Northern Ireland. Having fought 10 general elec-
tion campaigns for his seat since February 1974, he pledged that he would continue to provide his constituents with a personal service until the end of his current term. He said: “I have been privi-
leged to meet, and to know, in- dividual men and women with
indomitable courage and ex- traordinary inner strength, whose determination to ad- vance human rights and per- sonal freedom make them, to my mind, the moral giants of our time. “But without question, the greatest privilege of all these last 40 or so years, has been to represent in Parliament the splendid people of the Ton- bridge and Malling con- stituency.”
Builders call for bus link delays
DEVELOPER Berkeley Homes wants to delay a bus link prom- ised when it won permission to build homes at the former Hol- borough Quarry in Snodland. Planning conditions stipu-
lated it should provide a bus link from the estate access road to Cemetery Road by the time the 300th house was occupied. However the company has
Santa’s late gift to charities
SEVERAL charities have benefited from the proceeds of the Maid- stone Rotary Club’s Christmas grotto at the Mall, Chequers. Morethen 4,400children visited
Santa at The Mall, resulting in a profit of £9,000. Club president James Boswell, past president Robert Wicken and vice president
AYLESFORD METAL COMPANY ‘better recycling, for a better future’
AMC CASH FOR SCRAP 882442 01622
www.aylesfordmetals.co.uk Mill Hall, Aylesford
Colin Trelferpresentedcheques to: SimonCorrigan andAlexBates, of SandlingScouts; JanHall ofCross- roadsCare,WestKent; John King- dom, of Harmony Variety Club, Maidstone; Angie Evans, of Inner Wheel Club of Maidstone; and Carol Vizzard, of the Dawn Patrol Rotary Club.
asked Tonbridge and Malling Council for an alteration in the conditions, postponing the bus link until the 400th house is built. The firm expects to notch up
the 300 figure at the end of this year, but says that to complete the bus link while building con- tinued would be dangerous. Snodland Town Council raised no objection.
Fire safety advice follows blaze
FIREFIGHTERS from Larkfield visited Trottiscliffe to issue fire safety advice. The crew and community safety staff handed out safety literature and spoke to homeowners following a recent blaze at PilgrimsWay, when a property was severely damaged. Watch manager Mitchell Kelly said: “This was a serious fire in which three people were treated for smoke inhalation andmuch of their home and belongings were lost.We were keen to visit the area and help prevent these sorts of incidents happening again, along with the distress and the possible injury that they can cause.”
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