A village has been left without broadband connection and landline phones following a car accident. A collision between a Royal Mail van at the junction of Chantry Road and Church Green in Marden, resulted in one of the vehicles smashing into a green telecommunications junction box. The damaged junction box …
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Proposals for a £50m regeneration scheme for Maidstone town centre have been unveiled. The first artist’s impressions of Maidstone council’s plans to redevelop the former Royal Mail Sorting Office near Maidstone East were shown at a public exhibition at The Kent History and Library Centre yesterday. The town houses would …
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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 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 part of town long mooted for development could be transformed into 400 homes, offices, a health centre and shops. For years land next to Maidstone East station has been billed for redevelopment to become a gateway to the County Town. Shops including John Lewis and Asda had both eyed …
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