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© NT John Millar Half-term fun!
f you’ve been stuck indoors this winter, then February half- term is the perfect opportunity for the whole family to get outside and make the most of the 91 hours, 39 minutes and 57 seconds of the half-term daylight* at beautiful National
Trust places in and around Kent, where there are 132 hours of programmed events, including crafts, exciting challenges, storytelling and quiz-packed trails, available over the week. • For more information and ideas for great value family days out, visit
www.nationaltrust.org.uk
*Hours of daylight based on predicted times for the sunrise and sunset between Saturday, 14th and Sunday, 22nd February 2015. Stats taken from
www.timeanddate.com
Pandering to the pandas
Gardeners at Benenden Hospital Trust have been busy doing their bit for local wildlife by donating bamboo to a family of four red pandas at Drusillas Park in Alfriston. A team from the hospital chopped down bamboo from around the 364-acre site to donate to the Sussex-based zoo, following an appeal to gardeners at the end of last year.
Keeping the pandas satisfi ed with
enough roots and shoots is an ongoing battle for the animal park – the group’s appetite for bamboo is insatiable, with each panda consuming up to 2kg a day. Drusillas Park’s Head Keeper, Mark
Kenward, said: “We are so grateful to Benenden Hospital Trust for their large donation. Since the birth of our twin pandas in June last year, our own plantation has struggled to keep up with
the group’s enormous appetite. The pandas are delighted with the black bamboo; this is their absolute favourite and the quality is excellent.”
• Drusillas Park, call 01323 874100 or visit
www.drusillas.co.uk; Benenden Hospital Trust, visit
www.benendenhospital.org.uk
winners are…
Head Gardener Carol Head, with colleague Mike Winner and Head Keeper, Mark Kenward (back). Red pandas Mulan and Tibao can be seen behind
Just short of 100 votes were cast in the Best Dressed Christmas Window competition held on the High Street and Chapel Place in Tunbridge Wells, and sponsored by INDEX. More than 80 shops and businesses decorated their windows during December and you – the public – decided that … • 1st Place – Caroline Charles • 2nd Place – SW1 • Joint 3rd Place – Payne & Son/Cafe Nero
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STAMP OF APPROVAL
Sissinghurst Castle is among some of Kent’s iconic buildings and landscapes to have featured on 10 special stamps over the past 50 years. Royal Mail is running a series of activities to mark the 50th anniversary of the Special Stamp programme, which celebrates the UK and its key landmarks. The idea to create special stamps to commemorate anniversaries relevant to UK
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heritage and life was devised in 1965 by the then Postmaster General, Tony Benn. As part of the programme to mark the anniversary, Royal Mail has launched an online gallery of every special stamp issued since July 1965. These include images of the stamps featuring Kent’s iconic architecture and scenery – the most featured of the county’s locations is Hamstreet, near Ashford, with four appearances, followed by the White Cliffs of Dover, with two appearances. Also making a showing are Canterbury Cathedral, Sissinghurst Castle, Broadstairs
and the Channel Tunnel at Folkestone. Visitors to the site at www.rmspecial
stamps.com can browse through the stamps by the decade and also view the stamps that were issued in the year they were born.
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