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Kent Trading Standards are warning residents to watch out for rogue traders claiming work needs doing to your home as a result of bad weather.
Rogues often claim that your roof tiles need replacing or that your chimney stack is unsafe.
Don’t wait for a rogue trader to knock at your door, contact Checkatrade
www.checkatrade.com/
for Kent County Council approved traders that you can trust. (more…)
If you have a concern about an organisation’s information rights practices, report it to the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO). (more…)
A preferred option to return to all-night street lighting when Kent’s new energy-efficient Light Emitting Diode (LED) lamps are installed – meeting residents’ needs and savings targets – will be considered next week by Kent County Council members.
Work to convert the county’s 118,000 street lights to LED is due to begin in residential areas next month and will be completed within 38 months.
This will save Kent taxpayers up to £5.2 million a year, once installed.
The newly-upgraded lighting will be connected to an individual central management system (CMS) that will allow the authority to monitor and provide optimal lighting levels in the future. (more…)
Two new schemes across 14 acres will bring more than 800 homes and over 200 jobs to local area. Sale has been agreed on one site to deliver 400 homes for the private rented sector in partnership with Kent developer Quinn Estates.
Leading property regeneration company U+I is developing plans to bring forward more than 800 homes and new amenities across two sites in Ashford with a total GDV of £180 million. Both sites are in close proximity to Ashford International Station with direct fast trains into central London. The proposed schemes for both sites, designed by local architect, Guy Holloway, will help to create over 200 jobs for the local area and build a new community on Victoria Way, which is already benefiting from £25m of public realm investments and improved highway infrastructure. (more…)
We understand that five burglaries were committed in the Beaver Road area yesterday.
As was the case with these, most burglaries happen on weekdays, in daylight, when you’re more likely to be out.
Kent Police remind you:
Burglars are often opportunists who will target an open window, an unlocked door or valuables on display if they think they can get away with it.
Also:
The poster by Newcastle City Council’s
Trading Standards department on button cell batteries.
What do key fobs, musical toy books and calculators all have in common? All three, along with some remote controls and other electrical devices are powered by small button cell batteries.
The Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents (RoSPA) is warning parents about the dangers of children swallowing these batteries as with more and more compact electronic devices appearing in the home, the risk of children swallowing these small batteries is increasing.
We all know that very young children find out about the world by putting things in their mouths, but what many parents don’t realise is that lithium batteries react with saliva so that they leak acid within as little as an hour.
Therefore, if a child swallows a battery it can cause severe trauma, such as burning a hole in their throat or stomach or further damage to other internal organs within a few hours. (more…)
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We have procured a security certificate for the southashford.org.uk website. This increases the protection for sensitive information transmitted through our website, such as details of those making comments on our posts.
Some links we have on our pages, both internal and external will cause a warning on your internet browser. This is not something you should be concerned with but we will, over time, eliminate as many of the non-SSL internal links as we can.
Our thanks to Let’s Encrypt, for providing our Certificate and to our hosts, Free Virtual Servers for enabling encryption using the Let’s Encrypt certificate.
Let’s Encrypt is the free, automated, and open certificate authority (CA), run for the public’s benefit, provided by the Internet Security Research Group (ISRG).
Ashford College recently hosted the Ashford Photographic Society Schools Competition and are so proud to hear that two of their own students came runners up in two categories. Big congratulations to Rhys Hawkins (Level 3 Photography) and Shannon Pankhurst (Level 2 Photography)!
The intention of the annual competition is “to encourage photography as an art form and to harness the enthusiasm of both the art departments [of the schools competing] and pupils.”
The event was a great success with many turning out to see the work of the students.
NHS England is holding a public event in February as part of a review of specialist vascular services across Kent and Medway.
The review has been set up to ensure that services meet national standards, using best practice to improve patient experience and outcomes.
Following a number of public listening events where the case for change was discussed, NHS England would now like to engage people who have used these services, their representatives and carers in more detail. (more…)