A council has bought a former sorting office for £2.5m with plans to turn it into homes. It has been revealed that Maidstone Borough Council (MBC) has purchased the former Royal Mail sorting office site, in Sandling Road, Maidstone. Royal Mail sorting office, Sandling Road, in 2014. Picture: John Wardley …
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Villagers facing a mile-long round-trip to mail their letters have been told their postbox may not be returned, because a substitute lies just 100m too close. The brick column postbox was installed on the corner of Manor Rise and and Yeoman Lane in Bearsted shortly after the Queen’s coronation, 70 …
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Kent County Council has unveiled controversial plans to sell or lease part of its historic headquarters into flats and co-working spaces. Maidstone County Hall has been KCC’s HQ for more than 130 years, but some blocks of the historic building have been declared surplus to requirements. County Hall in Maidstone …
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It’s not everyone who gets to design a Royal Mail stamp. But that is just what Raphael Valle Martin, a year 10 student at Tunbridge Wells Grammar School has done. Raphael’s deign (55381734) Raphael entered a national competition for school children to design a stamp on the theme of Heroes …
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As the year draws to a close, we look back on some of the events that have shocked, surprised or gladdened our hearts over the previous 12 months in Maidstone and Malling. Inevitably it was a year dominated by Covid. Rosie and Jon Gill-Moss married on Monday just hours before …
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Controversial proposals to build a £50million headquarters for two councils in Maidstone have been scrapped. Long-standing plans to develop a four-storey civic centre at the former Royal Mail sorting office, near Maidstone East railway station, will not go ahead amid pandemic pressures. The former Royal Mail sorting office in Maidstone …
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A heartwarming tribute was paid to a popular postman at his funeral in Maidstone after he tragically died from coronvirus. Paul Dunmill, of Sutton Valence, lost his life on January 30 following a tough three-week battle with COVID-19. But at the 56-year-old’s funeral on Thursday (February 25), the most incredible …
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A convoy of Royal Mail vans drove through Maidstone as a final farewell to a postman who devoted his life to the service for more than 40 years. Paul Dunmill, 57, from Sutton Valence, passed away on January 30 after a short battle with coronavirus. Some 40 post vans joined …
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A blue plaque has been put in East Farleigh in memory of popular postman Paul Dunmill who passed away recently from Covid. Mr Dunmill had been delivering mail to the village for the past 20 years and had worked for Royal Mail for 40 years. A blue plaque to Paul …
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A Just Giving page set up to support the family of a much loved postman has raised a staggering £8,438. Paul Dunmill from Sutton Valence, known on his rounds as ‘Postie Paul’, died in hospital on Saturday after contracting Covid-19. Paul was happiest with a cup of tea in hand …
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