Tunbridge Wells

Police interviewing Tunbridge Wells stand-off arrest man

Wednesday, March 10, 2010

Police are interviewing a man they arrested yesterday after an 18-hour stand-off in Tunbridge Wells.

Officers armed with tasers smashed their way into the flat in Crescent Road at 5.30pm last night and arrested a man who had barricaded himself inside.

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You call this fixed? It's hole-y wrong

WRONG SHAPE? Reporter Mary Harris beside a deep pothole on Rossdale, Tunbridge Wells AH2602104/5

Monday, March 08, 2010

THEY came, they saw, they covered – and then they went again, leaving behind scores of unrepaired potholes and at least one fuming Tunbridge...

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Academy head says 'don't just write us off'

PLEA: Principal of Skinners' Kent Academy Sian Carr

Friday, March 05, 2010

THE head of The Skinners' Kent Academy this week called on parents to "open their minds" after 114 youngsters who passed the 11-plus failed to get a...

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New forum set up for music scene in Tunbridge Wells

GOING APE: Music store manager Dale Nash has led a project to promote unsigned bands SL1502103/2

Friday, March 05, 2010

ONE town centre music store is hoping to make Tunbridge Wells a platform for independent music. With The Forum allowing local bands the chance to...

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Ordeal for dog stuck down hole

REUNITED: Mahrie (left) and Rhiannon Taylor, aged 11 and 13, pictured at home on Doric Avenue in Southborough with their Welsh terrier Vinnie on Tuesday evening, who is recuperating nicely after spending six days down a badger set AH2302104/2

Thursday, March 04, 2010

EVERY dog has his day – but unfortunately for Vinnie it was seven and they were spent down a badger sett. The curious canine darted down the...

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Wait over for school places in Tunbridge Wells

Tuesday, March 02, 2010

The wait is over for thousands of youngsters who now know which secondary school place they have been offered for September. Letters from Kent County...

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Lunchbox shock sparks veg project

Monday, March 01, 2010

SHERWOOD families are being urged to change their eating habits – after experts got a shock when they rifled through children's lunchboxes. An...

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Oops, sorry we've put wrong fuel in pumps

FORECOURT FOLLY: Giles West who filled up his car from the unleaded petrol dispenser at the Sainsbury's filling station at Otford, only to discover that it had dispensed diesel instead AH2302102/5

Sunday, February 28, 2010

FILLING your car with the wrong type of fuel is a mistake most of us wouldn't want to admit to. But Tunbridge Wells motorist Giles West, whose Audi S3...

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