Thanet Column

Plain Jane: Cheers to science report

Saturday, March 13, 2010

By Jane Wenham-Jones

SOMETIMES, when I’m short of an idea with which to delight you, I revisit the Isle of Thanet Gazette from the previous Friday hoping to be inspired.

If it’s all wheelie bins (or lack of them), councillors making idiots of...

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Where's art-savvy Santa?

Saturday, March 06, 2010

By Mike Pearce​I DID not intend to return so soon to the Turner Centre, but your phone calls, emails, blogs, letters and even a very pretty card...

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Steve Ladyman: Asset disposal is council's idea

Friday, February 26, 2010

​AS WE have seen recently, when Thanet council wants to do something deeply unpopular, which it has absolutely no need to do, it is quick to...

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PM isn't a bully, just loud

Friday, February 26, 2010

By Jane Wenham-JonesI AM not usually first in the queue to stick up for Gordon Brown but the more ludicrous the “bullying” stories from 10...

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Our Turn(er) to lose

Saturday, February 20, 2010

By Mike Pearce​SO NOW we know. With annual running costs of £2.6 million and an anticipated 160,000 visitors, we shall be forking out...

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I’m no expert – but this stinks

Tuesday, February 16, 2010

By Jane Wenham-Jones​ANOTHER captivating press release from Thanet council.  Apparently, nearly 400 people have taken part in a ...

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Thought of the week: The Reverend Sharran Ireland, St Laurence Team Ministry, Ramsgate

Tuesday, February 16, 2010

I​T IS nice to be safe back on English soil after experiencing an earthquake of the magnitude of 5.9 on the Richter scale, while abroad on...

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Steve Ladyman: Broken by statistics

Tuesday, February 16, 2010

​THE General Election is nearly on us. Rightly, we will have some heated arguments and we politicians will disagree about almost everything. In...

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Thought of the week: Cannon Dick Cotton, St Philip's, Margate

Friday, February 05, 2010

PRAYER! Do you ever give it a thought?  I remember as a young curate visiting an elderly gentleman in Harold Wood Hospital, Essex.  We had a...

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Sandy Ezekiel: Saving our seaside

Friday, February 05, 2010

​THE future of struggling seaside towns and communities now holds an important position in the manifesto for a future Conservative government.Mo...

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