Roseacre tops area for Kent Test results


PRIMARY school pupils were celebrating as the 2012 Kent Test results were released. Roseacre in Bearsted was among the borough’s top scor- ing schools with 45% of the 80 Year 6 pupils who sat the test gaining a pass in the 11-plus exam. Also doing well were young-


sters at Harrietsham, where 30% of the 10 pupils who sat the examwere successful. Other


Landlords quit LANDLORDS who were cred- ited with transforming the for- tunes of a village pub in Leeds have retired after six years. According to the village mag-


azine, Geoff and Jenny Grif- fiths, who managed The George Inn, put the pub at the heart of the community and gave sup- port in generous measure to vil- lage events, including putting on their own charity football match at Christmas. New landlords Bob and Kim Garrett, who also manage The Bull at Linton, have now taken over.


Caravan plan VINCE Morgan has applied to station a caravan for residential use on a yard next to Rose Cot- tages, Lenham Forstal Road, Lenham.


local results: Hollingbourne: 25% Ulcombe: 25% Platts Heath: 24% SenacreWood: 23% Madginford Park: 23% East Borough: 19% Lenham: 16%


Bredhurst: 14% Passing the test enables pupils


to apply to study at a grammar school but does not guarantee


them a place, as KCC says these schools can become oversub- scribed. Parents have now applied for


their four preferred schools and will find out at which one their child has been allocated a place in March next year. The top performing schools in


the Maidstone area were Mere- worth, Offham and Yalding, which all had 50% pass rates. A total of 11,451 pupils, aged 10


Riding pain in the neck for Peter


whilst out riding on the August Bank Holidayweekend. Cllr Waite (75) was cantering


across a field on his horse Leo be- tween Mallings Drive and the M20 when the accident occurred. Twelve-year old Leo stumbled,


throwing Cllr Waite over his head, landing on his skull, sustaining a so- called ‘hangman’s fracture.’ “I had fractured two vertebrae in


my neck,” said CllrWaite. “Apparentlymostpeople donot survive this in- jury and, of those that do,many are left paralysed.” CllrWaite, who is pictured with Leo before the accident,was taken by ambulance toPembury Hospital,where he remained for four days before being discharged home with his neck firmly encased in the collar,which he has towear for three months. Leomerely sustained a grazed knee. Cllr Waite said: “I was very lucky to get away with the collar. Things could have beenmuchworse.”


THE former chairman of Thurnham Parish Council is looking forward to seeing his neck again after almost threemonths in a surgical collar. Cllr PeterWaite had a lucky escape after being thrown from his horse


and 11, sat the Kent Test, and of the 5,370 that passed, 1,298 live outside the county. In the test, which is optional, children sit a 50-minute verbal reasoning paper, a 40-minute non-verbal reasoning paper, a maths paper and a writing test, which take about an hour each. The answer sheets for all but


the writing exercise are multi- ple choice.


M20 safety work THE M20 could be improved between junctions 6 and 7, near Maidstone, as part of a £17 million road improvement scheme in the South East. The £300,000 project aims


to reduce congestion between the junctions tomake way for new housing developments and improve safety. The work, which is still in the planning stage, will begin in 2014.


Shoplifter jailed Jessie Hilden (24), of Coral Park, Maidstone, was jailed for 14 days by Mid Kent Mag- istrates Court after she admit- ted stealing DVDs worth £44.94 from a shop in King Street, Maidstone, on Sep- tember 13.


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