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A SMALL number of homes built specifically for villagers or those wishing to return to Marden can nowbe applied for. Two shared ownership proper-


ties at Rhodes Close development onMaidstoneRoad,Marden, have been put on themarket by a social housing provider. A two-bedroom house and a


three-bedroomhouse are available for people fromMarden or its sur- rounding parishes. Four properties at “affordable


rent” – one three-bedroom house and three two-bedroom houses – are expectedto be available in Sep- tember. Apply to Maidstone Bor- ough Council’sHousing Register.


Road closure


DRIVERS arewarnedof a 10-week road closure when planning jour- neys throughMarden. Albion Roadwill be closed from


Tuesday,March 12, fromRoundel Way to Jewell Grovewhile amain is installed. The diversion is via Plain Road,


Goudhurst Road, West End, ChurchGreen,High Street,Albion Road and vice-versa. All of these routes are on the B2079.


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Retired vicar dies after falling down the stairs


TRIBUTES have been paid to a much-lovedformer vicarwhohas died after a fall at his home. Rev SteveHughesMBE(67) only


retired as the rural dean for Leeds, Langley, Otham and Broomfield last summer. He had moved to north Wales with wife, Mandy, who had started a new NHS job there. Rev Hughes fell downstairs at


his home and died of his injuries not long after, on February 15.,Canon John Corbyn, rector at Holy Cross in Bearsted, said: “He was an affable and friendly man andmuch loved by themany peo- plewho knewhim. “He had little time to enjoy his


retirement, which is a terrible shame. But I understand he did spend time with his family over Christmas.” It is understood RevHughes fell


down a flight of stairs at home, breaking six ribs and his sternum. Hediedof heart failure in hospital.


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tivities that the vicar and church members are involved in for, and within, the community.” ValPuncher, former chairman of


the Leeds & Broomfield primary school’s governing body, said: “Stevewas a reallynice bloke.He’d regularly come into the school and the children loved him. He was dedicated to the school and never had a bad word to say about any- body.Areal gentleman.” Rev Hughes was born in Lan-


Rev Hughes suffered a number


of illnesses in recent years, but ap- pearedwellwhen he retired. Hewas unafraid of controversy,


especially writing in his monthly parish newsletter column, where he was frequently critical of the Church ofEngland’s inability to at- tract newfollowers. Of the modern vicar, he wrote


last summer: “Many people sim- ply don’t realise the breadth of ac-


cashire in1952, anddespite leaving school with two O levels – neither ofwhichwas religious education – he joined the county’s police force as a fingerprinting expert. After nine years, his calling saw


him study at Durham and Cam- bridge universties before his ordi- nation in 1980. He became a curate inCoventry. From the mid-1990s, Rev


Hughes served in Romania and earned anMBE for his orphanage work.Hemoved to Kent in 2012.


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