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So this is Christmas… (John Lennon) Next week closes off 2023. As usual, a series of bigger bangs, fiery flashes and planet pollutants will mark the new year by scorching skies around the globe....
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by FPP manager · Published October 23, 2023 · Last modified October 26, 2023
With thanks to my friend AW for his critique and helpful editing advice. Warning: trigger happy writing The trigger or inspiration for this piece was the combination of a meeting with our local MP...
Community / Local elections / Public services / Uncategorized
by FPP manager · Published March 27, 2023
The shocking announcement by Kent County Council that Folkestone’s main public library is to close has sent ripples of rage throughout the local community. Politicians are carefully setting our their position ahead of the...
A furore has broken out over the revelation of designs for the final phase of the Seafront Development on the Harbour Arm, with a vociferous majority describing the efforts of architects as reminiscent of...
A final contribution to the entertaining and informative series of blogs– loosely linked to the history of Folkestone Library –by Professor Carolyn Oulton, School of Humanities, Canterbury Christ Church University ‘He had no doubt...
One of a series of blogs with entertaining snippets of social history by Professor Carolyn Oulton of Canterbury Christchurch University It is a hot day in late Victorian Folkestone, and your stiff layers of...
Free tickets for the Library campaign and Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? A personal reflection after 3 months of The Save Our Library campaign by Jon O’Connor. A little Latin does you good – the...
An update on the Grace Hill Library campaign to date has been published recently: it shows the range of activity and the powerful support of the local community. As a result, politicians ranging from...
Professor Carolyn Oulton of Canterbury Christchurch University finds yet another entertaining and thought-provoking insight into the story of Grace Hill Library…. Stop me if you’ve heard this one before. Young woman to her brother,...
Another article from Professor Carolyn Oulton on the curious history of Folkestone’s Library and one of the more famous contributors to the collection of writers locked away inside Grace Hill! It was meant to...
Grace Hill Library early history…. A series of blogs written for the Save Our Library campaign by Professor Carolyn Oulton of Canterbury Christchurch University If you’re finding it hard to think about summer reading...
Professor Carolyn Oulton School of Humanities at Canterbury Christ Church University Books have always had the power to cause trouble. Ironically the Folkestone Free Library catalogue for 1884 includes Mary Braddon’s Taken at the Flood among other...
Psephology: the statistical study of elections and trends in voting. Jon O’Connor puts a small wager on small changes with significant impact in the May local elections. These local elections matter more than most,...
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"To make a home for the homeless, yes, it is a thing that must be good; whatever the world may say, it cannot be wrong.”
Vincent Van Gogh
Funding cuts hurt those with precious little left to lose.
@Porchlight1974 could do with some support right now.
For sure. Strategic misery.
If we see this can KCC?
@kentlibraries @KCCpressdesk
Responses welcome
Positive policies even more so.
