News Drug supplier
admits offence A DRUG dealer from Maidstone caught trying to sell ecstasy at a music festival at Detling is await- ing sentence. Joshua Fenton was found carry-
ing 31 wraps of class A drugs when he attended the Winter So- cial onMarch 11. His plan to sell the substance to
festival-goerswas scuppered after security staff became suspicious. The 19-year-old was stopped
and found to be concealing the drugs down the front of his trousers. Police later called at Fen- ton’s home in Cannock Drive, Maidstone, where they found drugs in a safe in his bedroom. In total, almost 17 grams of the
synthetic drug MDMA were seized alongwith a small quantity of alprazolam, another prohibited substance. Fenton’smobile phone was also found to have messages consistent with making drug deals, both before and after the festival. Fenton appeared at court last month and pleaded guilty to two counts of possessing Class A drugs with intent to supply and a further charge of possessing a Class C drug. He has been bailed to appear for sentencing on December 22.
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Faith at centre stage of townstreetproduction
MILESTONE events from the Christian calendar are being taken out of the church and into the street in a series of novel, live per- formances and interactive events to raise awareness of Christianity. On Saturday, September 30,
some 800 people joined a Harvest Festival Hunt, in search of baskets of Kent-grown produce put to- gether by 20 schools from across the region. It was the idea of Maidstone’s
Waypoint Project, which is bring- ing the town’s churches together during 2017 to give the public greater access to their faith. On Sunday,October 29, as part of
the project, the 500th anniversary of the birth of the Protestant Church will be celebrated with a street drama in Jubilee Square from2pm. Maidstone’s first town centre
Reformation Commemoration will be followed by a procession to the United Reformed Church in Week Street, ending with a thanksgiving service at 3pm. Human rights, free speech and freedom of religion are among the
The Archbishop of Canterbury, JustinWelby, withMaidstone actors Thomas Hitton, Katherine Allen, John Ball and Charlie Dyer
benefitswe enjoy today as a conse- quence of the Reformation, with characters includingMartin Luther and the 18th-century Calvanist minister Joseph Hart taking part. Joseph wrote Hart’s Hymns, a much-loved hymn book for more than 200 years and his great, great, great, great, great, great, great grandson Jonathan is a student at St Simon Stock inMaidstone. The drama will be followed on
Saturday, December 16, by a per- formance of TheNativity,with live animals and actors featuring at five
locations across the town. Heather May, project director,
said: “This will be the finale to this year-long project which has re- ceived excellent feedback. Maid- stone’s first live nativity will be staged outside, starting in theHigh Street at 1pm.” Casting for The Nativity took
place on October 14 at the United Reformed Church in Week Street. But anyone interested in knowing more about the event can drop a line to nativity@waypointmaid-
stone.org.uk.
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