Folkestone and Sandgate councillors Tim and Season Prater today had a meeting with Stephen Gasche of Shepway Council and Jeremy Cooper of Stagecoach about the loss of the 77/78A service connecting Sandgate's Enbrook Valley and Cheriton High Street.
A Comprehensive Performance Assessment (CPA) reassessment of Shepway Council by the Audit Commission has reported that Shepway has moved from being "weak" to "fair". The CPA inspection verdict of "weak" was made in 2004, when Shepway was just one point
HM Revenue & Customs has some rare good news for Britain's 3.6 million self-employed people: mortgage interest and even council tax can now be offset against annual income tax.A spokesman for th...
Commenting on Alistair Darling's proposals aimed at protecting savers' deposits, Liberal Democrat Shadow Chancellor, Vince Cable said "The run on Northern Rock has made it clear that the system of deposit protection must be improved to prevent future runs on
In 2007, Canada recognised Folkestone with an award to mark the almost 90 years of uninterrupted Canada Day Remembrances held at Shorncliffe, presenting 2007 Mayor Peter Gane with a framed citation and medal.
Friday 27th July sees a fundraiser night take part in aid of this years Dunbar Traditional Music Festival. It will be held at the West Barns Bowling Club, with a £3 door entry. The night will be hosted by Bill
French historians are risking a visit by gunboats bearing the white ensign after declaring King Arthur an English legend promoted for "political reasons".
College students are increasingly downloading illegal copies of textbooks online, employing the same file-trading technologies used to steal music and movies. Feeling threatened, book publishers are stepping up efforts to stop the online piracy.
Condé Nast will launch a UK version of Wired magazine and its accompanying website next year and has hired the Jewish Chronicle's editor, David Rowan, to edit it.
Waterstone's total sales increased by 5.0% for the full year, including like for like sales up 3.3%. This includes the annualisation of the Ottakar's acquisition and an estimated 0.9% impact from sales of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows.
Podemos" (we can) was the Obama-inspired slogan for Spain during the Euro 2008 tournament, which concluded last night with a Germany-0 Spain-1 victory in the final. And only a slight tense change, from "podemos" to "pudimos" turns it into the
The problem with geeks and law is that geeks are way better and faster in interpreting reality than lawyers are in interpreting laws. Here's a good example - the Owner-Free Filing system.The OFFSystem is a distributed file system (essentially creating
A discussion (well, more of a rant) in Teemu's blog warrants repeat here - why I think the traditional vision of ubicomp, that is, the Internet of Things and the Smart Spaces is broken.You see, I think that intelligence is
