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Continued from page one McCarthy, who had been the entertainment manager for the event in the previous two years, had already provisionally booked two com- peres, five bands and theatre pupils from Valley Park School to per- form throughout the weekend at the 2014 Music on the Green. “I was asked by Barbara on the day of the last event if I’d be pre-
pared, in principle, to present the entertainment for the following year and by August last year I’d got all the bands in place,” said Pat, who was organising the acts free of charge. “In the last two years the parish council never confirmed itwanted
to give the acts the go-ahead until February, so Iwaswaiting for them to contact me and ratify it.” Mr McCarthy said three of the bandswould instead perform at The
Lion of Kent pub in Ashford Road, Bearsted, on Sunday, May 25. The parish council’s community committee chairman Cllr Geoff Licence, who took over the role from Mrs Dunford, said he believed the event should remain “in-house”, but no progresswas made. Speaking at the full council meeting in March, chairman of the council Cllr Richard Ash said: “By now we should have had a pro- gramme full of various things to fill an eight-hour day, but the com- munity committee has nothing in front of it. The whole thing has stagnated.”
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IT was an emotional moment for Dr Phyllis Holt as the ribbon was cut on Maidstone’s new state of the art hospital. The Kent Institute of Medicine
and Surgery (KIMS) in Newnham Court, near J7 of the M20, which will offer specialist consultative and acute care in areas such as car- diology, cardiac surgery, neurology, neurosurgery, surgical oncology and complex orthopaedics,was of- ficially opened by HRH The Duke of Gloucester. The project was coordinated by consultant cardiologist Dr Holt and her husband Franz Dickmann. Built at a cost of £95m, it will
offer private healthcare as well as services to the NHS by agreement with local hospital trusts and com- missioning bodies, serving 2.3 mil- lion potential patients across Kent, East Sussex and South London. The Dukewas given a tour of the
new facility by its chief executive Jayne Cassidy (pictured together) before being introduced to consult- ants who will work at the hospital. He also met the Mayor of Maid-
stone, Cllr Clive English, Maid- stone Council’s chief executive Ali- son Broom and KCC chairman Cllr Eric Hotson. More than 300 clinical staff will work at the hospital and the first patients are due to be ad- mitted at the end of the month. The Duke congratulated the Dickmanns. “I hope they feel very proud of their achievement – and so they should,” he said.
BOXLEY parish councillors rec- ommended that the new access road to KIMS and the proposed Newnham Park development be named Newnham CourtWay after the house and farm that used to stand there.
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