Folkestone Town Councillors Dhan Gurung and Tim Prater have backed a bid for a team from the Folkestone Gurkha and Nepali Community to play in a national 9-a-side Nepali community football tournament on 30 August 2009 in Reading.
Lib Dem County Councillor Tim Prater and Conservative County Councillor Rolund Tolputt have joined forces to ask Kent Highways to tackle speeding traffic on the border of Folkestone and Sandgate.
Cheriton Councillor Tim Prater has met with representatives of Kent Highway Services to discuss ongoing proposals for Royal Military Avenue in Folkestone to slow traffic in the road and create more parking.
Lib Dem Park ward councillors Bev Rolfe, Lynne Beaumont and Maggie Sheldrake have been conducting a survey of views of those neighbouring the Cheriton Road Sports Ground about the proposals for a major new modernisation and development of the facilities at the ground, supported by the De Haan Charitable Trust.
The Government's DNA database holder has revealed that West Mercia Police hold DNA records on 19,001 young people under the age of 18 in their area, the majority of whom have committed no crime. Approaching a third of these are in Shropshire.
As explained in a previous edition of FOCUS, the Herts & Essex and Bishop's Stortford Boys' High Schools want to sell off their existing sites for housing and move to a large green belt site south of the town.