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downsmail.co.uk UCAquits town aer 150 years
THE University for the Creative Arts in Maidstone is to close after teaching students for 150 years. The remaining 201 students will
clear their desks at Oakwood Park for the last time on July 4 after an illustrious career for the college, with alumni including the late Tony Hart, Tracey Emin and Mar- tin Handsworth, who illustrated the interactive Where'sWally? chil- dren’s books. Founded in 1867, it moved to
Oakwood Park in 1970. It also taught a specialist five-year print- making course, unique to Maid- stone. In 1987, the college joined Can- terbury and Rochester, then be- came the University of Creative Arts in 2005. According to Penny Heath, who hasworked on the site for nearly 20 years, with this status came the “kiss of death”. She said: “Once cloned with two
Kent sites and Epsom and Farn- ham in Surrey, a slow but sure process saw services and courses withdrawn from Maidstone in favour of other sites. Staff faced the stark choice of redundancy or re- location.” Classroom space has been leased at Oakwood Park for UCA since
2011, when the campus was bought by Mid-Kent College. The lease comes to an end on July 31. The Green Party’s parliamentary candidate, Stuart Jeffery, says he fears the university will go the same way as the Kent Music School, which moved out of Astley House, Hastings Road, Maidstone, after permissionwas granted to re- place it with 25 homes in 2010. He said: “Maidstone has been as- sociated with the UCA for many years and it would make sense to
capitalise on this relationship, ei- ther by persuading the UCA to change its mind or by bringing a new college in. Sadly, there is little interest from councillors or MPs.” Mrs Heath, from Tonbridge
Road, Maidstone, said: “I feel it will be hard for the town to be a ‘centre for creative arts with jobs in the creative industries’ without an institution for creative excellence.” Angela Chadwick, from the
UCA, says the college’s presence in Maidstone would live on through
its collaboration with Maidstone Television Studios, where it runs degree programmes in interactive media production, media business management and television pro- duction. Its other courses will move to Canterbury and Rochester. Mid Kent College has applied to demolish one of the UCA’s buildings and replace it with a car park for a proposed new sports hall. Maidstone Council will determine the application.
BGT’s Adam charged with assault
A TV talent show hopeful from Ec- cles who was knocked out in the fi- nals of Britain’s Got Talent has been charged with assault and will appear in court later this month. Adam Diplock, part of swing band
Jack Pack, which bowed out in the grand final on June 7, was inter- viewed under caution by police on April 23 and was later summonsed to Maidstone Magistrates’ Court. It is understood the alleged assault in- volved the singer’s girlfriend. Adam (29), from Mackenders Lane, wowed the judges with band
Adam, left, with Jack Pack
members Sean Ryder Wolf, Alfie Palmer, and Andrew Bourn to qual- ify for the show in the fifth and final semi-final. Adam – who lists his job as a wed-
ding singer – and other band mem- bers have supported acts including
Sir Tom Jones, Westlife, Sugababes, Boyz II Men and Blue. Adam also reached the live stage of The X Fac- tor in 2007 as part of boyband Fu- tureproof. But it was operatic boy band Col-
labro that picked up the £250,000 Britain’s Got Talent prize and a spot in the Royal Variety Performance. A spokesman for Kent Police said:
“A 29-year-old man has been sum- monsed to appear beforeMaidstone magistrates on June 24 to face a charge of assault causing actual bodily harm.”
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