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99p pints at Wetherspoons?

According to this story from Fareham, does it apply across the whole Wetherspoons chain?Community pubs say there is no way they can match Wetherspoon's, which has slashed the prices of drinks at its pubs.The pub is selling pints of Greene King IPA al...
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creative support ofr Poppy Appeal

PRESS RELEASE17TH OCTOBER 2008NO EMBARGOART GALLERY SUPPORTS POPPY APPEAL IN SPECIAL WAYThe Fofu Art Gallery on Rendezvous Street in Folkestone is supporting this years Royal British Legion (RBL) Poppy Appeal in a very special way by dedicating an en...

Sorry about the wonky phone numbers!

I've had a problem on the site with some of the phone numbers getting corrupted:Please can you change the tiger inns number as its on alot of your telephone numbers for businesses in folkstone ie.. imperial hotel, burstan hotel, hawkinge community ce...

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St Tropez of culture

Does this sound familiar? From Saturday's GuardianPierre Cardin, the millionaire Paris fashion designer and businessman who has spent millions restoring the castle, is trying to turn the village into a "St Tropez of culture". After establishing his o...

RE: Poor Jimmy Godden

I am so pleased that someone is concerned about Mr Godden's spate of bad luck, I am sure that Jimmy will appreciate this community spirit - after all Mr Godden has always had the towns' best interests at heart. It is good to know that there is one de...

Mr Gordon Brown refused my demand to abolish religious mythology in schools

Well fancy that. Do you think that one day a boy will ever be born who can swim faster than a shark one of these petitions will provoke anything other than a dismissal? We received a petition asking: "We the undersigned petition the Prime Minister...

burstin folkestone darts event

That sounds good, someone's landed here searching for burstin folkestone darts event. No idea what it is yet, it'd be great if it was some top players. The Burstin is the monstrous hotel down by the harbour, it's a strange little community all of its...

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10 myths about vegans

www.bboheme.com (who I once bought some shoes from) emailed me today to tell me it's world vegan day and to share with me an advert for their shoes and things, cunningly wrapped in a "10 Myths about Vegans" list. They know bloggers love lists like fr...

Benefits of Costa Blanca apartment

2 Double Bedrooms (1 en-suite)2 Bath / Shower roomNorth / West facingCommunity PoolNear to town, shops bars and restaurants etc.Large Lounge / Dining areaCovered porch ideal for alfreso diningLandscaped front gardenConnected garage underneathExcellen...

Goodbye Rev

A popbitch chum has died, a very popular character at the popbitch events, as were his late night ramblings on the website. Still not sure what happened yet, but it's very sad. I remember meeting him at the first popbitch fund raiser, which was a gre...

Marvellous

I hope it's a top one. Sultans of Ping eh? Not heard of them in a while, I am jealous! Saw The Fall at Ashton Court festival a couple of weeks ago.. they were nothing much to write home about though. Much shambling about stage, random turning up of g...

RE:

To all concerned with Knotweed Pulling - be very careful.You may well increase the spread of the plant by pulling it out of the ground. It is not a recognised method of control.Not wanting to dampen the enthusiasm of the local community, but trust m...
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Folkestone before 1500

The Folkestone People's History Centre is inviting local people to take part in an exciting new heritage project called "A Town Unearthed: Folkestone Before 1500".Residents of Folkestone and the local media are invited to find out about the project a...
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Community Hall

The Marsh Harriers Majorette's no longer train at the Community Hall.Lydd. Please phone 01797-322294

Do we really have an "active occult community"..?

An HP Lovecraft fan here says so...

Blood on the tracks

Watched "The Roadkill Chef" last night, billed by BBC Three as "Eccentric roadkill connoisseur Fergus Drennan tries to change the eating habits of the people in the town of Sandwich in Kent by throwing the community a roadkill feast". Sandwich is rea...

Longboard marathon visits Folkestone

Not along The Leas I hope, where skating is OUTLAWED:British Longboard Team Prepare for the Challenge of a Life TimeThe stage is set for a team of longboard skateboarders from Devon, UK to attempt a World Record Breaking marathon. In July 2007, the B...

Missing cat!

Yeah, doing my bit for the community help find this cat, look in your shed and that:Missing Black Cat � Folkestone in KentMy 5 month old male cat called mog has gone missing on the 18th October 2006 and i�m desperate to find him.He went missing from ...

A Seaside Year launches in Folkestone

Folkestone is to see a new creative project arrive in the town this winter with the launch of A Seaside Year bringing twelve months of new performing arts events and activities to the town.Four key scheduled events for Winter, Spring, Summer and Autu...

Local District Nurse to walk Great Wall of China For Charity

One of your local District Nurses for the Hawkinge community, Jacqui Buxton would like to enlist your help in the battle to fight breast cancer. This terrible disease touches too many people's lives, every month causing more than 1,000 deaths in the ...

RE: Train times did not work out well at all

I like Drupal too - it 'kinda 'just works'. Probably lots of code to write if you want to funk it up a bit though. You can try out a demo of it here at the marvellous 'Open Source CMS' site.Also like TextPattern, as you know, though the developers se...

RE: Anyone's opinion on the town I live in is of interest to me

I honestly don't think anyone who looked at it would have regarded it in any way. They would have probably ignored it. It's a public journal, but still personal to me. I agree with Dean, I don't know if you saw his comment - "This isn't fair, I r...

Roger De Haan's plans for the town

I lived in Folkestone for the first 21 years of my life and then left to study up north 11 years ago and never moved back. All of my family still live in the town so I visit regularly a few times every year. It may be my 'rose tinted specs' view of...

There must be a site somewhere, with a dedicated pocket pc community

Something like www.ipodlounge.com but for IPAQ.

SOS Folkestone

On a technical level, I don't like www.sosfolkestone.info but that could be just me being a nerd. They do have a little forum there with a lot more activity than this one, and some more info on Roger Dehaan's masterplan for Folkestone, including some...

Chops!

Started the weekend with a super rarity, drinks in Farringdon. Been trying to meet up with a couple of the Fareham boys who are commuters too and work in the area, and this week no-one had a good excuse not to do it, so it's all on - To The Eagle. It...

All my pictures at once

See all my pictures at once on flickr leech, or all anyone's pictures - now can you tell me how to sort out all those pictures that I've clearly uploaded twice. Straight off I can see all the Andy and Hazel in the curry house is duplicated, but can I...

Google Base

Google Base is up and running then... See my posted "things" here apparently, possibly a few teething troubles still. Be interesting to see how this develops, who's going to suffer as a result of google getting into the market of, er, EVERYTHING? Che...

International Women's Rugby

RFU.com has it that there's a Folkestone player, Catherine Spencer in the England squad - you live and learn. It's not just Sian Reddick holding up Folkestone's international sporting name......

Monterey

Just setting up a place holder here where I will post the next part of my holiday honeymoon writeup... on leaving San Francisco we went to Monterey, before heading to Santa Barbara and Los Angeles.First we had to get out of San Francisco, which meant...