New figures reveal only a tiny fraction of slashed EU subsidies went to agriculture businesses last year. The government last year launched of the sustainable farming incentive (SFI). This paid farmers for looking after their soil. Last year, subsidies were cut by an average of 22% for farmers, only 0.44% of the promised budget was spent on SFI.
There are many dangerous potholes across Medway. However, one that is truly worrying is the depression in Berengrave Lane in...
The number of Police Community Support Officers (PCSOs) on the streets has fallen dramatically by 33.7% since 2015. Analysis of new Home Office statistics commissioned by the Liberal Democrats from the House of Commons Library has shown the drastic cuts to PCSOs in Kent and Medway.
February is LGBT+ History Month and this year's theme is BehindTheLens celebrating LGBT+ peoples' contribution to cinema and film from behind the lens. Directors, cinematographers, screen writers, producers, animators, costume designers, special effects, make up artists, lighting directors, musicians, choreographers and beyond.
*image - alan wells
Friday 27th January 2023 marks the 78th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau, the largest Nazi death camp, every year on that day Holocaust Memorial Day (HMD) takes place, a day that will give an opportunity for people from our towns and across the country to reflect on the tragic events of the Holocaust and in subsequent genocides in Cambodia, Rwanda, Bosnia and Darfur.