Editor’s Letter
So where did 2016 go? In a haze of Brexit, May and Trump, the pace of public and political life
went on at a dizzying rate with so much change in such a short space of time.
It is at these times of momentous change, that we look to the stability and calm of family life, the familiarity of the things we cherish and hold onto.
Kent is a very vibrant and modern county in so many ways.
We are the gateway to Continental Europe with the M20 and M2 representing what is sometimes called “UK Plc on the move”.
Many large firms choose to be based here, enjoying a proximity to London and a well-educated, settled workforce to choose from.
Kent produces great artists, musicians, politicians, sportspeople, business-folk, entrepreneurs, thinkers and achievers.
It also sets the bar very high when it comes to acts of selfless kindness, volunteering, unrewarded and sometimes thankless community work or unsung charitable causes.
For all its modernity, Kent remains resolutely rooted in its past. And rightly so.
In each edition of Mid Kent Living, we try to reflect some of the above.
This time, we meet the Conservative MP for Faversham and Mid
Kent Helen Whately, a bright and rising star of the political firmament and discover what drives this ambitious mother of three to do what she does.
Writer Dawn Kingsford finds out how music is the way to educate our children while Di Nicholls meets the woman who found a midnight bake-off the way to cope with chronic back pain.
And the stalwart of all things Bearsted, Barbara Dunford, reveals the health secrets of how she never stops being at the centre of everything in her community.
All the best.
Simon Simon Finlay, Editor
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