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A POPULAR festival celebrating multi-culturalism in Tunbridge Wells is to return this year in spite of council belt-tightening.The Tunbridge Wells Mela Festival will be held in Calverley Grounds on July 7.Organisers hope they can draw the usual crowd ...
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Comment on On the road to a decision from pages 6&7THIS week, in a hotel in Tunbridge Wells, an inquiry began which could change our lives forever.For three weeks, an inspector from the Government will listen to argument and counter-argument ...
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AS THE weather gets warmer and the days grow lighter, some of you may have noticed a strange phenomenon occurring in Tunbridge Wells.As if from nowhere coaches appear around every corner, both at the top and bottom end of town, people brandishing camer...
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TONBRIDGE ANGELS' starting lineup is going to have a fresh look about it next season following the departure of their two biggest names.Keeper Lee Worgan and striker Frannie Collin have ended their spell at the Longmead and both said it was the toughes...
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TONBRIDGE AC's Dan Bradley won the main five mile event at the Hildenborough Races in 26min 54sec, pulling clear of track specialist Sean Molloy after the first mile.Third overall and first woman home was Deirdre McDermot in 29:38.In the 2.5-mile junio...
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THEY went to Wembley, they won their first silverware for 25 years, but boss Martin Larkin says there is still a tinge of disappointment at Tunbridge Wells.Despite putting the football club on the map in 2012/13 and seeing hundreds of fans flock to the...
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SOUTH African star Ryan Bailey showed his class to steer Tunbridge Wells to their first win of the season. Wells won the toss at Orpington and captain Evert Bekker chose to bowl first.Dominic Trett's second over rocked the home line-up with a double...
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LINDEN Park were denied by the rain in the first division one match in their history.On losing the toss, Harvey was asked to bat and with a new-look opening partnership with local lad Paul Seldon, they got Park off to a solid start, putting 33 on the b...
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WEALD of Kent's gymnasts' club returned from the MEAPA Invitational Floor & Vault Competition, at Gravesend, with a huge collection of medals and awards.Competing against gymnasts from 15 other clubs at key steps, novice and intermediate levels, th...
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TUNBRIDGE Wells Foresters U16s completed a league and cup double with a 4-1 win over a talented Tonbridge Junior Gunners side.Foresters got into their passing game and pushed Tonbridge back. The deadlock was broken after 20 minutes when a free-kick fro...
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TONBRIDGE Angels skipper Gary Elphick says Lee Worgan and Frannie Collin will be a massive miss next season, but he urged fans not to be too worried about the departures this week.Worgan and Collin joined Tom Davis, Olly Schulz, Aaron Gayle and Danny W...
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AT the Hildenborough Races, Tunbridge Wells Harrier Alice Heather-Hayes was the first FV 35 in 30min 13sec and Kim Deeney was first FV40 in 36:57.Duncan Stacey, in a rare appearance for the Harriers, finished in 44:34.In the 10-mile event, Dave Langrid...
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BEING white and from Tunbridge Wells – could anything be further from the pedigree of a stereotypical rapper?Jim Todd, 25, might rap about pedalos in Dunorlan and "pumping our own Evian" from the Pantiles – but it has done nothin...
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TRAVEL times between Pembury and Tonbridge will be reduced by 69 per cent if the A21 is dualled, the public inquiry into the scheme heard.The Highways Agency presented a summary of their case before the planning inspector, architect and town planner Ja...
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The new Kent and Sussex Courier website is launched this week and to mark the occasion, editor Roger Kasper is hosting a live webchat. This is the first time he has held such an event and, if successful, he intends to hold it regularly adn publicise it...
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TONBRIDGE Juddians have launched the next stage of their academy project which they hope will see a world-class conveyor belt of talent coming out of the Slade for years to come.Building on the success of the past two years under Pete Dankert, the newl...
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TONBRIDGE Juddians have launched the next stage of their academy project which they hope will see a world-class conveyor belt of talent coming out of the Slade for years to come.Building on the success of the past two years under Pete Dankert, the newl...
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A MULTIMILLION-POUND road scheme for Tunbridge Wells will be "dead" if landowners refuse to sell plots of land critical to the development to Kent County Council.Council bosses warned they would have no choice but to "walk away" fro...
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WINNING seven golds and one silver medal at a national sports competition would be a remarkable achievement for any seven-year-old.But for Fern Sneddon, of Ridgeway, Pembury, the incredible haul was all the more impressive as she has a rare kind of dwa...
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