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Shepway site COMMUNITY leaders have in- spected the site of a proposed re- generation on the Shepway estate, Maidstone.
Helen Whately, MP for Faver- sham and Mid Kent, Cllr David Burton, leader of Maidstone Bor- ough Council and former mayor Marion Ring were invited on July by the social housing business be- hind the expansion at Cambridge Crescent.
Social housing JB INDUSTRIAL Doors Ltd of
Straw Mill Hill, Tovil, has submit- ted a planning application to de- molish the industrial building and build 18 one- and two-bedroom so- cial housing dwellings with access, parking, communal amenity ter- race and highway improvements.
Cricket trophy
OAKWOOD Park Grammar School, Maidstone, has won Kent under-13 Schools’ Cricket Cup, beating St Olave’s, Orpington, in the final.
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Hazlitt drops comic after football Tweets
THE Hazlitt Theatre has pulled a comic Andrew Lawrence's ap- pearance for remarks about Eng- land's black footballers he posted on Twitter.
The 350-seat venue cancelled his October date over comments about their ability to take penalties. Mr Lawrence has since deleted
his twitter account after receiving criticism from other social media users.
A statement from the Hazlitt's parent company, Parkwood The- atres, said: "Andrew Lawrence has used social media platforms to ex- press remarks that do not reflect the values of Parkwood Theatres. "Therefore, we have taken steps to cancel his performance at the Hazlitt Theatre in October. All cus- tomers who had tickets for this performance will be contacted by our box office in order for them to receive a full refund."
(41) posted his remarks on Twitter and, within hours, venues started cancelling his shows. He was also roundly condemned by fellow comics and reports sug- gest he is now barred from certain comedy clubs.
Bukayo Saka (19) Marcus Rash- ford (23) and Jadon Sancho (21) failed to score in the 3-2 Euro 2020 shoot-out defeat to Italy on July 11. The next morning, Mr Lawrence
The comic has made a career out of attacking woke values, the Lib- eral left and the BBC but claims not to have any "political ideology and I am not in any way affiliated with any political organisation". Despite his notoriety in some quarters, he has appeared on Live At The Apollo and The Michael McIntyre Comedy Roadshow. Mr Lawrence, who was brought up in Kingston, south west Lon- don, went to the University of St Andrew’s which is credited as being the best in Scotland. The comedian did not delete his Facebook account with 43,000 fol- lowers.
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