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AMASSIVEbook sale takes place in Leeds onOctober 20 and 21. It is at St Nicholas church from
4pmuntil 8.30pmon the Friday and from10amto 2.30pmon Saturday. The Great Leeds Book Sale stocks
refreshments are for sale at the church. Organiser Brian Hardy said:
Anotherincursion at Larkfield park
thousands of second-hand books, both fiction and non-fiction. Admission to the sale is free and
TRAVELLERS have moved back onto a popular park in Larkfield for the second time in six months. The families - in five caravans -
“Therewill be some 14,000 books for sale, so there must be something to suit everyone’s taste. “For a sale of this size we obvi-
ously need and get support from a wide area and it has now become a major attraction.” For details, call Mr Hardy on
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01622 842915, email him at
bjhardy@theiet.org or just turnupon the day.
THEWillingtonPlayerswillperform the costumedrama Sense andSensi- bility by Jane Austen at the Hazlitt Theatre fromNovember 7-11. The players’ fund-raising evening
go to theOthamBell Fund. For tick- ets call Betsy Piercey on 01622 862515 or
email elizabeth-
piercey@btinternet.com
takes place onNovember 9. Tickets are £14, £5.90 ofwhichwill
pulled on to Gighill Green in Lunsford Lane on Sunday October ,, releasing dogs on the popular public open space and setting up washing lines within hours. It is un- derstood the fami- lies in- volv ed have been offering tree felling services to residents in the area. Parish council chairman David Thornewell says more has to be done to stop the travelling com- munity running circles around the police and local councils. He says the job ofmoving on trav-
ellers for a second time will run into thousands of pounds The last inci- dent, in early summer, costing the parish council £1,200, with the trav-
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A PLAN to build a much-needed 1,200-place secondary school in Maidstone has been delayed by a year after a bitterwar ofwords be- tweenitsmanagement andthebor- ough council. In a letter to parents from Valley
ellers simply moving on to take up temporary residence elsewhere in the area. He said: “They just seem to be
InvictaAcademies’Trust (VIAT), co- CEO Vic Ashdown apologises to those who had hoped to secure a place at the New Cut Road school next September, blaming it on an “impasse”with councillors. The fate of the application for the
Maidstone School of Science and Technology (MSST) will now rest with a government inspector. The letter states: “We have lost
faith in the ability of the (Maidstone Borough) council to deliver the nec- essary and lawful planning permis- sion in a timely fashion and have referred the matter to the Planning Inspectorate. “Weunderstandthat thiswill offer
doing the rounds. These incidents have affectedWest Malling, forcing the closure of the village hall, and Leybourne, and now they are back in Larkfield. The police told resi- dents that this was a civil trespass when they reported it and that they couldn’t do anything and obviously the council offices were closed be- cause it was the weekend. These travellers know and play the sys- tem.” The council’s legal team served an eviction notice but it took aweek to enforce. Cllr Thornewell held talks with Laddingford Engineering in an effort to increase security further on the public land, near the M20. Valdemar Kalinin (pictured), of
little comfort to those of you who were seeking places in 2018, but giventhe circumstancespresentedto us we have been unable to proceed in any otherway.”
the National Gypsy-Traveller-Roma Council said recently that local councils must provide designated traveller sites or “tolerated zone” which gypsy convoys can move onto. He said: “It comes down to racial prejudice against this com- munity.”
In it, the trust claims the council
was looking for contributions to- wards infrastructure totalling about £1m, but states this is “potentially neither reasonable, nor legal”. It says the council failed to com-
Chairman of Maidstone’s plan-
ning committee, Cllr Clive English, describedthe approach taken as “the most inflexible I have come across in 20 years on the planning commit- tee”. Cllr English added: “Any reason-
able applicantwould havewaited a day to have the plan considered in the properway. “We were not against the school,
municate, deferring decisions be- yond the set deadline of June 2017, while the project received govern- ment backing inMay 2015. But councillors say that, while
they supported the new school, the applicants were unwilling to enter into negotiations and took the plan to appeal 36 hours before itwas due to be approvedby the council’splan- ning committee. The committee approval would
have included conditions to satisfy issues including school transport provision and traffic congestion.
‘Spooktacular’ at the farm
which ismuch needed, but the plan- ning process is about dialogue.” Cllr English says councillors had
MAKE the most of the October half-term holiday at Kent Life Heritage Farm Park’s Halloween Spooktacular in Maidstone. Brave kids are invited to the vintage village to knock on doors and
discover who – or what – is lurking behind them from October 21-31. The award-winning attraction at Sandling, near Maidstone, has a few
other tricks up its sleeve to turn its usual exhibits into frightening farmhouses and horrifying homes. Youngsters can try pumpkin carving, dressing up and the Ugly Bug Ball. On October 25, there will be more spooky goings-on with Kent Life
5-6pm and, for older visitors, from 7-8pm. If you would like to know more about any of the above, call 01622 763936.
wanted to discuss issues including the loss of mature trees, access and design issues, and a contribution to- wards the cost of running school buses, butwere denied the opportu- nity. He added: “It ismy belief that tak-
After Dark, This event includes a spine-chilling tour suitable for under-eights from
ing theplan to an inspectorwas seen as a way to avoid consultation and escape conditions and costs ofmeet- ing the needs of the community.” Adetailedsubmissionwill be sent
to the planning inspector,making a strong case for the borough and county council’s needs to be met as part of any final approval.
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