News Choir concert


A SUMMER serenade concert is being staged by a popular Maid- stone singing group. Bearsted Choral Society hold the


event at St John’s CEP School on July 14 at 7.30pm under the baton ofmusic directorAndrewLowen. Tickets are £10 (students are free)


- call 01634 666730 or email tick- ets@bearsted.org.uk. Theywill also be available on the door.


Funeral date


THE funeral of John Croucher will take place at StNicholas Church in Leeds at 11.30amon June 19. Leeds resident Mr Croucher,


who was in his 80s and a well-re- gardedMaidstone sportsman in his youth, died earlier this year after a long illness.


Coffee pick-up


A DRIVE-THRU Costa is being built at the service station on the M20 at junction eight. A small area of woodland is


being cleared for the coffee re- tailer’s premises and a small slip road is also being created near the Esso garage for its kiosk. It is expected to be finished later


this year.


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InvictaGrammar lad in Hong Kong placement


AN enterprising sixth-former from Maidstone, who has been likened to Alan Sugar, has won the chance to attend summer school in Hong Kong. Thibau Grumett (18), from In-


victaGrammar,will bewinging his way to the Chinese University of Hong Kong after successfully demonstrating his business acu- men in a high-profile competition run by the Hong Kong Economic and Trade Office. Hewill be sponsored to study in


the city for sixweeks after produc- ing a leaflet that put him among the winners of the competition. It was entitled “HongKong: The best destination for start-up entrepre- neurs”. Thibau received his prize at a


presentation in London on June 6. Siôn James, from the British


Council – which supported the competition – said: “Your timewill provide you with a rich variety of new experiences in a different cul- ture, and having seen the amount


of creativity, skill and commitment demonstrated in the applications, it’swell deserved.” Julie Derrick, head of Invicta


Grammar, said: “We are delighted for Thibau.He seizes any opportu- nity to explore all elements of en- terprise; we have no doubt that he will followin the footsteps ofAlan Sugar and Richard Branson. “He has been demonstrating these skills through hiswork expe-


Thibau Grumett receives his study trip package and a Chinese tea set fromTom Wright, executive director of the Hong Kong Society


rience too. “To be able to combine this at-


tribute with academia and a natu- ral interest in travel and languages, as well as his exchange visits at school to Hong Kong, will un- doubtedly set Thibau up for his next steps verywell. “We cannot wait to see what the


outcome of the summer schoolwill be, but knowing Tibau, it will be really very good.”


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Computerman goes back to its roots


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