Our land of shameful litter louts MailMarks


gusting habit of so many British people dropping, throwing and dumping litter with no sense of social responsibility whatsoever? After 12 days on the Rhine, ad- miring how spotlessly the Ger- mans and Dutch keep their lovely riverside towns I returned to find at the top of my 10-metre- wide drive off Lower Road, East Farleigh, a mass of varied litter. It included:  Ribena packet  Costa Express cup  Tesco melon wrap  Two Kinder chocolate wraps


WILL we ever break the dis-


 A parking receipt  Silver paper wrap  Plastic wrap  Cigarette packet  Energy drink tin  Chicken sweetcorn wrap  Coca-Cola can


VARIOUS ornaments were stolen from a farm in Cross Drive, Kingswood. Items in- cluded a carved wooden statue of a wizard (4ft tall), a grey Easter Island head statue (20 inches tall) and a white ceramic lady (20 inches tall). Two bicycles were reported


stolen from the front garden of a home in Captain’s Close, Sut- ton Valence. One was a pink mountain bike. Four camping stools and a camping chairwere stolen from a Scout camp site in Hamlet Wood, Stockett Lane, East Far- leigh.


Burglars tried to get in to a


home in Burston Road, Cox- heath. The front door was dam- aged, but entry was not gained. Thieves got in to a house in Medway Avenue, Yalding,and took an Xbox console, games and money. Four fishing rods (in a blue box) were also stolen from the shed. Thieves stole 500ft of electric


cable, nine metal piping tubes and an electric motor from a barn on a farm on Chickenden Lane in Staplehurst. A white Ford Transit hire van is be- lieved to have been involved. An attempt was made to force


the front door to a home in PloughWents Road, Chart Sut- ton, without success. Thieves got in to a white Tran-


sit van parked in Vanity Lane, Linton, and stole a GPS naviga- tion system and power tools.


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 Harvest Chewee wrap  One tissue I assume these were all thrown from ve-


hicles by totally selfish people who could not care less about the impact on the envi- ronment and the appearance of our towns and villages. All they had to do was retain this rubbish in the vehicle for appropriate disposal. The cost of clearing up after these rub-


bish hooligans is immense and has to be met by us all as council taxpayers. I am delighted Maidstone Council is leading the way in Kent by employing a team to catch and fine these anti-social miscreants. If you drop even cigarette ends


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and chewing gum in Maidstone it is at your financial peril. Are our schools doing enough to educate children on litter? That has to be the right starting point – because children have a way of making parents feel very guilty. I used to be part of a team in East Farleigh who regularly walked areas of the village to pick up litter.


Some received a Queen Mother’s Birthday Award to prove it. Advancing years and increasing danger along unpathed Lower Road forced retirement. But I still feel just as strongly – and I am far from alone.


Dog bag fines DOG mess falls into just about the same


category. I like the policy adopted now in Germany. Dog owners must take an appro- priate bag on walks. They are stopped and a failure means an automatic 60 euro fine. It seems to concentrate wonderfully the minds of very many in Germany who love their pets.


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Ametre of earthing cable was


stolen from a pole outside the Prince of Wales in West End, Marden. Six metres of earthing cable


was stolen from Yalding Cricket Club, The Kintons, Vicarage Road, Yalding. There was an attempt to force


a patio door at a property in Hawkenbury Road in Hawken- bury,howevernoentry was gained. There was an attempt to


force a window at a property on Lenham Road in Kingswood, but no entry was gained. Entry was then forced into a shed, and a garden ro- tavator was stolen. A white Galaxy Ace mo-


bile phone was stolen from a car, which had been left unattended for one minute in South Bank in Sutton Valence There was an attempt to steal


metal from a pole onWest Street in Hunton. The pole was dam- aged in the process. Three metres of copper cable


were stolen from a substation on Cradducks Lane in Staplehurst. Lead flashing and a three-foot terracotta urn were stolen from a home in Chart Road, Sutton Va- lence. A copper boiler, copper pipe


and fittings were stolen from an outhouse in a field behind a homein Church Road, Chart Sut- ton. Two metres of earthing cable


was stolen from Bishops Lane, Hunton. A fire-damaged silver electric cooker was stolen from outside a garage at a home in Acott


Fields, Yalding. Cash was stolen in the burglary


of a farm building in Heath Road, Boughton Monchelsea.Entry was gained by forcing awindow. Ten rolls of roofing felt, one shiplap wooden stable panel kit and various small items were stolen from a field in Chart Mill Road, Chart Sutton. A blue and grey McClaren pushchair and a baby carrier were stolen from a driveway in The Quarries,


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Monchelsea. A green two-man tent, green fishing tri pod, a sit-on clay pi- geon trap, a brown fer- ret and various small items were stolen from the front of a property in Kenward Road, Yalding.


A silver Suzuki Carry motor caravan was stolen from North Street, Sutton Valence. Number plates were stolen


from a white Vauxhall Astra car in Headcorn Road, Staplehurst. A blue Vauxhall Combo van


was stolen from the roadside in Locks Road, Headcorn. Six foot of earthing cable was


stolen from Yalding Cricket Club, The Kintons, Vicarage Road, Yalding. Number plates were stolen


from a red Suzuki motorcycle in North Street, Sutton Valence. A blue Toyota Hilux pick up


truck was stolen from a farm in Redwall Lane, Linton. A male was seen stealing the vehicle. He is described as white, aged between 25-30, 6ft 2ins tall, wearing a grey hooded top. A red estate car, similar to a Skoda Octavia, was possibly involved in the theft.


Various items of high value jewellery were stolen in a bur- glary of a property in Charlton Lane,West Farleigh. Two blue quad bikes, one black


quad bike, and a white and black quad bike were stolen from com- mercial premises at a farm in Headcorn. Entry was gained to an outbuilding by cutting a hole in the wall. There have been a few incidents in the area recently. A garage side door was forced


in an attempted burglary of a garage inQueen Street,near Pad- dockWood. Nothing was stolen. Diesel was siphoned from a Massey Ferguson tractor in Gravelly Ways, Laddingford. Additional damage was caused to the tractor. Earthing cable was stolen from Howland Road, Marden.


Fire service doing


well, says survey KENT Fire and Rescue Serv- ice has been given the thumbs up in a recent survey on how well it performs during and after an incident. People who had been in- volved in a fire during 2011/12 were asked questions based on how they felt KFRS had delivered its service. Of those who had experienced incidents in their homes, 98% were satisfiedwith the overall service and 91% thought that KFRS arrived quicker than ex- pected. Key findings from people


who had experienced inci- dents in non domestic prem- ises showed similar figures. KFRS chief executive Ann Millington said: “The results are good news for our fire- fighters and control staff who work really hard to ensure that the people of Kent and Medway are happy with the work that we carry out.”


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