Sitemap - 2024 - Local Authority
Catching up with our previous guests
“The best part of being the Mayor is meeting all the different communities”
The American Comic Shop: A lament
Three Medway by-elections set for February
“Beer brings good people together”
Developer makes promises to get planning permission, immediately changes mind
“It’s a beautiful band to play with at the moment”
What happened to the Great Lines music festival?
Gillingham Street Angels accuse Medway Council of making their work harder
"I was once lambasted for knitting during a council meeting"
Testing creative ideas in unexpected places
Is a Kent and Medway mayor on the way?
What’s going on with Medway’s swimming instructors?
“It had not only a local impact but a global impact as well”
“Art is vital, and we are killing it societally”
Ukrainians find support in Medway, but more help needed
How bad is Medway's financial situation?
Sport England objects to housing to save inaccessible playing field
“I will talk about things that people don't want to talk about”
Local charity gains Billy Childish as patron
Landmark dockyard building to become digital creative hub
Government accepts Chatham Docks redevelopment
“What we really need is a real big sponsor”
Medway’s literary festival aims big
Spembley continues to loom large on Chatham skyline
Frozen pensioners, hate crimes, and devolution
“You can sometimes make unpopular decisions”
Voice of the Police and Crime Commissioner
Over 2,000 School Streets fines issued in first six months
“It's a way for me to survive”
Plushies, pin badges, and carpal tunnel
“We all had silly names given to us. I was given Ludella Black”
Medway’s music scene remains precarious
Rainham pub set to become homes as nothing else good enough
“We believe we can turn the country around”
Black Art Hub launches in Medway
Council project comes in… under budget?
“Everyone's sourdough is different”
Chatham is failing where Dundee succeeds
Voice of the MP - Chatham and Aylesford
New School Streets feature some weird choices
“You would struggle to pick a fight with me on social media these days”
Is Gillingham’s promotion party built to last?
Medway’s new traffic cameras already issuing thousands of fines
“Everyone is inherently radioactive”
Going underground in Rochester
60,000 segments for HS2 built in Medway
“It's way better to destroy a camera, than it is to destroy someone”
Voice of the MP - Gillingham and Rainham
Trafalgar Centre redevelopment might finally happen (in two more years)
St. Mary's Island is done. What's it like to live there?
Workshops for community cohesion
“Anything that impacts negatively on Medway I feel quite personally”
Gibraltar Farm development heading for green light
“In music, pretty much everyone ends up freelance by the time they're middle-aged”
“Our principal focus at the moment is being that effective strong opposition”
New MP has offensive tweets outed
The far-right looks to Medway again
"I tend to ignore negativity, it doesn't really bother me"
Medway's housing target reduced
“A lot of people won't be able to tell you who is actually running the local authority”
Medway Council already overspending by £16m this year
“We are lobbying the university constantly to improve the student experience”
Medway Council is civil until it isn’t
Medway Council asks itself to build a pier
“If you want to do it, you will find ways to make it happen”
Nine things Medway learnt from the General Election
New Local Plan finally emerges
“It feels like you can in Medway”
“As far as we're concerned it still is a city”
66 seasons of the Medway Little Theatre
Past and present leaders on Medway's General Election
It’s nearly over/It’s never over
“People do have to be brave and bold and vote for what they believe”
Listen: Chatham and Aylesford hustings
Listen: Gillingham and Rainham hustings
“I'm only involved in politics because I care about my area”
This exhausting campaign lumbers on
“We suffered as a result of the coalition and it's taken time to build up”
The 23 people who want to represent Medway
How polluted is the River Medway?
Week two on the Medway campaign trail
“I'm pushy, and I like people pushing me as well”
The baroque anxieties of David Goggin
"You're not free if you can't speak your mind"
More ANPR traffic cameras coming to Medway
“I just want them to realise what they've got”
Chatham Docks plans on hold for now
"That's the power of having someone in the room"
Personal statement coming shortly
Matthew Scott re-elected as Kent PCC
"People don't like the business side of it”
What went wrong for Gillingham?
Chatham Docks edges closer to redevelopment
"It created somebody horrible"
Listen: Kent Police and Crime Commissioner debate
Opaque organisation gives Kelly Tolhurst another £10,000
"This is probably my last stint"
Between a democracy and a benign dictatorship
Medway’s Network North bonanza
"If you don’t have access to justice, then those rights are just ideas"
"It feels at the moment in politics like all hope is gone"
Do we need to allot more allotments?
"We used to always be one paycheck from disaster, which didn't bother me"
Poems To The Match That Ignites, and more
Catching up with the new independent
Cllr Spalding and the anti-trans tweet
“I don't identify really as Billy Childish”
Plans submitted for Strood Civic Centre site
“I think the point is that the group are united”
The end of the new administration
Frindsbury ‘misery’ finally arrives, brings out worst in everyone again
“I enable people, I don't tell them what to do.”
Medway... in activity book form!
Chatham eyesore might finally become something
“I've stopped thinking that it's going to make my fortune any time soon”
Medway isn't ready for the EV future
Medway budget meeting offers glimpse of the future
"We were very keen not to just replicate something”
Medway Council reaches budget climax tonight
Exclusive: Deputy Leader of Medway's Conservative group resigns from party
Two Medway Labour councillors suspended from party
“We were paying their rents to make sure they wouldn’t be evicted”
New pier for Rochester might be on the horizon
Why give careful analysis when you can give snap analysis?
“I don’t have any technique, I never learned anything about it.”
The £11.6m Innovation Park folly
"It's up to the people of Hoo if they want to be a town"
Medway taxi fares set to increase
Medway Council seeks exceptional powers to stave off bankruptcy
"I write in quite a visual way"
Frindsbury Hill closure brings out the worst in everyone
'I can’t really write music that goes with the voice"
Medway’s wildly unambitious cycling plans
Monitoring Medway: 2023 Edition
"It is different from Westminster, where people have a view of blackmail"
Rehman Chishti fails to get yet another job
“I'm capturing an image because that moment is important”
Medway Council Cabinet member uses anonymous account to push political points
“It's about seeing the beauty in the broken”
Another year, another Medway bin crisis
Up the Gills or down the Gills?
"There is something for everybody, and everybody will cheer you on"