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School staff take off 90,000 working weeks in year

11 June 2013
School staff take off 90,000 working weeks in year

Stressed-up teachers and support staff have contributed to 90,000 days taken off sick in Kent schools in just one year, it's been revealed.

Schools chiefs run up £150,000 hotel bills in just a year

10 June 2013
Schools chiefs run up £150,000 hotel bills in just a year

Kent taxpayers have been billed more than £150,000 in just a year for hotels used by education officials and teachers for training courses.

High earners offered 'premiums' to lure them to council

07 June 2013
High earners offered 'premiums' to lure them to council

Applicants for senior and six-figure salary posts at KCC are having their packages boosted to ensure posts are filled, it's been revealed.

Beer and tennis anyone?

07 June 2013
Beer and tennis anyone?

What unites wood panels, tennis, ship building and the Bahamas? Ask your MP.

Council failed blind woman in her nineties: Ombudsman

04 June 2013
Council failed blind woman in her nineties: Ombudsman

Kent County Council must carry out a far-reaching review of elderly care charges after an Ombudsman was highly critical in two separate reports.

Councillors 'blocking probe' into £3m failed ferry deal

31 May 2013
Councillors 'blocking probe' into £3m failed ferry deal

Thanet councillors have been accused of stifling questions over a secret deal with a ferry operator that has left a £3.3m funding gap.

Grammar school could set up own 11-plus

30 May 2013
Grammar school could set up own 11-plus

A grammar school is considering setting its own 11-plus test in a move that education chiefs fear could place children under more pressure.

KCC elect new chairman

24 May 2013
KCC elect new chairman

Hotson 'backing business' after taking top county council job

MPs criticise Paris Brown appointment 'fiasco'

23 May 2013
MPs criticise Paris Brown appointment 'fiasco'

A report has condemned the 'fiasco' surrounding Kent's youth tsar Paris Brown... claiming a panel failed to scrutinise her appointment.

County councillors take pay freeze

23 May 2013
County councillors take pay freeze

All parties on Kent County Council are today expected to back a pay freeze for councillors, keeping their basic allowances at just more than £12,800

Tax rebate for special PCs

22 May 2013
Tax rebate for special PCs

Special PCs are to be given a council tax rebate to acknowledge the work they do as volunteers, Kent police commissioner Ann Barnes has announced.

Ferry firm owes council £3.3m under secret deal

22 May 2013
Ferry firm owes council £3.3m under secret deal

A council is facing criticism over a top secret deal with stricken ferry firm TransEuropa after it emerged the authority is owed £3.3million.

Commuters warned of rail chaos

22 May 2013
Commuters warned of rail chaos

Kent rail passengers have been warned to expect serious disruption on services to and from London... for up to two years.

UKIP defector: 'Tories trying to woo me back'

21 May 2013
UKIP defector: 'Tories trying to woo me back'

A former Conservative county councillor who defected to UKIP says he has already been told he would be welcomed back to the Tory fold.

Grant defends gay marriage plan ahead of key vote

20 May 2013
Grant defends gay marriage plan ahead of key vote

Maidstone and Weald MP and equalities minister Helen Grant has defended plans for same-sex marriage ahead of a key Commons vote tonight.

MEP faces being slung out

20 May 2013
MEP faces being slung out

The Kent MEP who leads the Conservative group in the European Parliament is facing a battle to carry on after failing to secure enough votes.

'We have no plan B'

16 May 2013
'We have no plan B'

Education chiefs say they are ploughing ahead with plans for a satellite grammar school... despite an alternative government scheme.

More than 50 want to run K College

16 May 2013
More than 50 want to run K College

As many as 50 organisations - including colleges and companies - have expressed an interest in taking over struggling K College when it is broken up.

Inquiry starts into £100m A21 widening

14 May 2013
Inquiry starts into £100m A21 widening

A long-awaited public inquiry into plans to dual one of the county's busiest stretches of roads starts today.

Stop rowing over EU warns Kent Tory MEP

13 May 2013
Stop rowing over EU warns Kent Tory MEP

The Kent leader of Conservative MEPs has urged his party to stop squabbling about when a referendum should be held on Europe.

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