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A 25-YEAR-OLD Maidstone man was given a suspended jail sentence after admitting receiving stolen goods, including a £200 blow-up dinghy.
Matthew Allen, of Bazalgette
Rise, also admitted receiving head- phones worth £200 and a £500 mountain bike, knowing or believ- ing them to be stolen. He was sentenced to 56 days in prison, suspended for 12 months, by Mid Kent magistrates and must pay £200 compensation, £85 costs and a £60 victim surcharge. Allen must also carry out 200 hours community service.
Driver banned
ROBERT Sedge (27), of Melrose Close, Maidstone,was banned from driving for 18 months at Mid Kent Magistrates Court and fined £400. He admitted drink-driving after
an incident in Lower Road, West Farleigh. When stopped, he gave a breath test of 74mg of alcohol in 100ml of breath. The legal limit is 35mg. Sedge must also pay £85 costs and a £40 victim surcharge. The ban could be cut by 135 days if he attends a government-approved driving course.
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Duke guest of honour at opening of hospital
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, neurol- ogy, neurosurgery, surgical oncology and complex or- thopaedics, was officially 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, with whom he is pictured. He was then introduced to con-
sultants who will work at the hos- pital. He also met the Mayor of Maidstone, Cllr Clive English, Maidstone Council’s chief execu- tive Alison Broom and KCC chair- man Cllr Eric Hotson. More than 300 clinical staff will
work at the hospital and the first patients are due to be admitted at the end of April. The Duke congratulated the
HRH The Duke of Gloucester cuts the ribbon to open the Kent Institute of Medicine and Surgery, watched by Dr Phyllis Holt
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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