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Celebrating 20 years serving Maidstone and Malling


The Early YearsYears Ye


Within a few years, ther e wer e other editions and 20 years on there are now five serving Maidstone and Malling with a distribution figure of around 85,000.


In 1999, Mail Publications Ltd took a small of fice in Forge House near Bearsted Green and today it now occupies the whole building.


Downs Mail has never lost its core principles – reliable accurate journalism delivered without fear or favour.


It is a traditional, almost old-fashioned, approach but one r eaders never seem to tir e of. Their eyes


assailed by screaming tabloid headline and over-spun articles, or spoon-fed a diet of easy web pickings and PR puf fs.


Dennis’s mantra is laid out simply in his autobiography “So I StartedA Newspaper”: “The journalism must be highly r elevant to local readers, accurate and easy to read in an age when there is so much competition for our time. Readers must feel it is truly their newspaper fighting and campaigning for them and their town.”


utobiograph ournalis r, eliable, s will not be


Forge House in Bearsted, left, and chairman Claire Procter


November 2000: Second edition, covering the Weald, is launched


December 2000:


Jade Hobbs (8) and her grandmother Margaret Kuwertz (79) were killed on the A249


January 2001:


Days after the funeral and convinced a crossing was needed, editor Dennis Fowle launches a Downs Mail campaign to raise the cash to build one. Few gave Dennis’s team much hope, which merely stiffened resolve


July 2002:


Third edition, for Maidstone town, is launched


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