Shopping centre Hospice boss in cycle crash
store to close BEALES department store is to close its Maidstone outlet, just a year after coming to town. The company, which took
over the two-storey site previ- ously occupied by T J Hughes in TheMallinJunelastyear, will move out once the lease expires, the company has said. The news comes within
weeks of clothing retailer Next announcing it is to close its shop in TheMallwhen its lease runs out in November. Although the company is ex- panding, a spokesman said it had decided it was not in Beales’ best interests to remain in Maidstone, which will come as a bitter blow to the town cen- tre management. Founded in Bournemouth
more than a century ago, Beales was one of the founding names of the department store move- ment. It operated 13 shops until two
years ago, including an outlet in Tonbridge, when, despite the re- cession, it acquiredWestgate De- partment Stores, adding a further 19 outlets to its portfolio. Aspokesman for the company
said: “The store has achieved the business’ objectives and we are now looking to exit as per the lease agreement.” Notices have already gone up
in the store window advertising its closing down sale.
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through her passion for cycling, have inspired many others to support the cause.” Kate (pictured),who is married
to John, joined the San Fairy Ann cycling club when she undertook her first sponsored ride seven years ago. Since then, she has taken part in challenges in Cuba, India, competed in the Kent 200K, cycled from London to Paris (viaGeneva) and undertook the gruelling 1,000-mile ride over 12 days from Land’s End to John O’Groats.
Brought up in Ilkley, West
Yorkshire, Kate was previously an employee at Demelza House children’s hospice in Sitting- bourne, and Ellenor Foundation in Dartford, before returning to HOKH – where she earlier worked on thewards shortly after it opened its doors 22 years ago – initially as clinical manager. It costs £3.8million a year to
run HOKH, a specialist palliative care unit in Preston Hall. Kate spearheads the financial strategy, supporting staff and vol- unteers.
Vicky Pryce in Kent prison THE wife of disgraced minister Chris Huhne, Vicky Pryce, who was jailed for eight months for perverting the course of justice, is believed to be serving out her sentence at East Sutton Park Women’s Open Prison, near Sutton Va- lence. Both Pryce and her ex-husband were sen- tenced by Southwark Crown Court after a jury found them guilty of lying over speeding points. Pryce joins a hundred or so other women
and young offenders who are expected to work on the prison farm or in the local community while serving out their sentence. The same day Pryce was moved, murderer
Clare Barstow went on the run from the prison while on temporary licence and was detained five days later. In 2009, the Duchess of York’s former dresser Jane Andrewswentmissing. She has now been detained in a closed prison.
Lay reader stands down LAY reader Peter Garratt, from Sutton Valence, has retired after more than two decades of serv- ing the Three Suttons. Peter trained over a two-year period in Canter-
bury and, together with Keith Smith, has spent 22 years officiating at matins and evensong services in the benefice, allowing the regular clergy to take the occasional day off. Peter’swife Valerie was always privy to his ser-
mons before they were let loose on the congrega- tion and she was presented with flowers, while Peter received a carriage clock, in recognition of their sterling service. Vicar Brian Curnew, who presented the couple
with their tokens of appreciation, at the Parishes’ Day, said Peter’s long and faithful service as a reader was enormously appreciated. He said: “He will be greatly missed in the pul-
pit but, thankfully, he will still be in church, in the choir and running the 100 Club for many years to come.”
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