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KINGS Hill School pupil Aaron Watts has been picked frommore than 11,000 applicants to be a Blue Peter judge on the panel for Young Sports Personality of the Year. He will join 13 other judges
comprising of past and present sportsmen andwomen, radio pre- senters and Radzi from Blue Peter. The award he’ll be judging is
part of the BBC’s annual Sports Personality of the Year ceremony, which will be held on December 16.
Priory post
THE Roman Catholic Prior of Aylesford Carmelite Priory has accepted an invitation to serve on Rochester Cathedral’s Anglican council. Fr FrancisKemsleywill take up
the post after being approached by the Bishop of Rochester, the Right Reverend James Langstaff, who said: “This will not only bring to the cathedral a welcome link with the Roman Catholic community in Kent, but also the particular relationship with the priory atAylesford.”
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Libraries could face cut in opening hours
BOOKS at libraries including Larkfield, Snodland and West Malling lookset to remainbehind closed doors for longer – because Kent County Council needs to save cash. An overall reduction in public
opening times across the library es- tate is proposed in a review of services by KCC. Specialist services such as the
mobile library, home library deliv- ery, audio books by post, and resi- dential home services will be brought together under the brand of Library Direct, if the three-year strategy is agreed by councillors. Mike Hill, KCC’s cabinet mem-
ber for community and regulatory services, claimed all of Kent’s li- braries will continue to be main-
tained.However,many couldhave their opening hours changed. He added: “We knowthat our li-
brary service is highly valued by the public, but it is not immune fromthe financial pressures on all
county council services.We have beenworking on a three-year strat- egy which is intended to protect the future of all our libraries and our archive and registration offers and, in fact, enhance some of these
services.Being open at timeswhen libraries are not well used is not a good use of taxpayers’money.” Residents can comment on the
strategy for the county’s Libraries, Registration and Archives service during a 10-week public consulta- tion,which ends on January 31.
The strategy alsoproposes a new
approach to how the service pro- motes itself and continues to digi- tise its collections. The county council has pledged
there will be a chance for library users to shape the opening hours at their local library to suit their com- munities, if the changes are agreed. Copies of the draft strategy, de-
tails of drop-in events and the con- sultation
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