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Forger let off
A MAIDSTONE man who forged official documents to make money was given a suspended prison sen- tence and ordered to carry out 250 hours of unpaid work. Jagmail Singh Claire, of Marston
Drive pleaded guilty tomakinganar- ticle for use in fraud. Magistrates heard how, between
November 18 and December 3 2014, the 57-year-old, made a letter of a court order intending for it to be used fraudulently. He also forged official documents intending to make a gain of £746. Magistrates sentenced Claire to 120 days in prison, suspended for 12 months and ordered him to carry out the unpaid work and pay costs.
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Maidstone to Cambridge ‘service by 2018’ scheme
A NEW direct train service could link Maidstone andWest Malling to Cambridge with a route calling at stations in London. Rail firm Govia Thameslink Rail-
way (GTR) has launched consulta- tion on a new timetable for 2018 which includes plans to introduce two trains an hour from Maidstone East.
These would then call at West Malling, Borough Green, Otford and Swanley, then fast to London Bridge, Blackfriars, City Thames- link, Farringdon and St Pancras and then on to Cambridge. The journey time from Maid-
stone to London Bridge would be around 52 minutes. The company, which operates services in London and the south, set out its plans at a meeting with key organisations for the service which would be both peak and off- peak, extending into the evenings, onweekdays and Saturdays. A spokesman for Sevenoaks Commuters’ Group said: “This is great news.We had been expecting peak only services.” Services between Maidstone East
timetable expected to be confirmed in the new year. The new services would be run
by its new Class 700 trains, one of which is pictured left, which could free existing rolling stock to strengthen the busy Metro service on Southeastern. The Class 700 falls into the “elec-
and London Victoria are currently operated by Southeastern whose franchise is due for renewal in 2018. GTR was awarded the franchise
to operate routes in the south after submitting a bid which included proposals to run trains to Maid- stone and Sevenoaks in the future. It said the proposed timetable
would link many new commuters into the Thameslink cross-London route so there would be less re- liance on the underground net- work. Full consultation would be car-
tric multiple-unit passenger train” ideally suited to carrying large vol- umes of customers and has been built as part of a fleet of 60 eight and 55 12-carriage trains expected to enter service between this year and 2018. In 2011, the consortium Cross London Trains - which comprised Siemens Project Ventures, 3i Infra- structure and Innisfree - was an- nounced as the preferred bidder for the manufacturing contract with Siemens as the builder. They were to be built in Ger-
many. The contract to build the Class
700 fleet and to provide service de- pots in the south of England was said to be worth £1.6 billion. Procurement and close of con-
ried out this summer with the new tractwere delayed by four years.
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