A Kent court has ordered the confiscation of Illegal gains of more than £136,000 made by two men convicted of selling fake designer clothes at a Sunday market on the Isle of Sheppey, after an undercover operation by Trading Standards officers from Kent County Council.
Heavy goods traffic on Kent’s roads will be running back towards normality from 21st March when the Manston Airport Covid and customs check site will be suspended. Britain and France have agreed that EU-bound freight drivers staying less than 48 hours no longer need negative Covid tests.
Better spring weather has brought out the pothole teams this month with another £10 million Kent County Council programme filling the winter holes in the county’s 5,000 miles of roads. https://bit.ly/3v1DH0u
Kent’s libraries are beginning the cautious process of reopening after nearly a year of lockdown. Starting straight away, March 15th, Kent County Council is returning some libraries to face-to-face birth registration and also essential library computer use.
Food and drink, life science and digital and creative companies in Kent looking to exports to grow them out of the Covid pandemic are being offered free advice from a new support programme. https://bit.ly/3qm6edH
Kent businesses that need help dealing with the EU, post-Brexit, are getting free advice on the new regulations from Kent County Council’s Trading Standards officers.
A tree line along Cornwallis Avenue in Tonbridge is going back to its 1930s roots with a replanting scheme of exactly the same species as when Lord Cornwallis, a Chairman of Kent County Council, opened the road exactly 90 years ago.
Read and Watch the Chancellor's Budget announcement here in full. One year ago, we promised the British people we would do whatever it takes to provide security and stability.
