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JANUARY
1. Neville Longbottom 2. David Bowie, who was in the Manish Boys in Maidstone. 3. Vikki Pattison 4. 96,000 – it was watched by 95,685 people. 5. Wonder Woman, which will star Israeli actress Gal Gabot and Chris Pine. 6. Michael Caine 7. Oyster
FEBRUARY
8. Present Top Gear
9. Around £30m 10. He won both for his role as Rudolf Abel in Bridge of Spies with Tom Hanks. 11. Len Goodman 12. Great British Bake Off judge Paul Hollywood put his home near Canterbury on the market for £795,000. 13. 24th - Ukraine won.
MARCH
14. He was at the cinema (watching Kung Fu Panda III with his grandson). 15. Ross Kemp 16. A fish (koi carp) 17. A dog - a husky - who has 60,000 followers on Instagram 18. The Highways England proposal for a new Thames crossing. 19. A rock
APRIL
20. Four Candles (or Fork Handles) 21. Being on a steam train at the Kent and East Sussex Railway at Tenterden. 22. Prince 23. Caravan, who performed at Maidstone Fringe Festival 24. Julian Clary, who lives in Aldington – the same village as Paul O’Grady 25. Sid Vicious 26. JMW Turner, which the Turner Contemporary is named after, will feature on the note which will be issued in 2020.
MAY
27. Nic Fancuilli 28. A newborn baby western lowland gorilla, born to parents Sanki and father Djanghou 29. Elton John flew in to Maidstone Studios to film an episode of Later...With Jools Holland 30. Johnny Depp (although a host of stars did show up) 31. The restored 53 metre high Hadlow Tower, was restored to the tune of £4.2m but there was no asking price – offers were invited. 32. The Jolly Boys Outing – the Only Fools and Horses episode where they came to Margate, and even rode the scenic railway, was marked with a nostalgic exhibition at Dreamland, opened by Marlene and Boycie.
JUNE
33. Its two millionth visitor walked through the doors – as managers predicted – on Tuesday, June 7. 34. Inside a blue whale skeleton at the Natural History Museum. The papers, including a 1932 Christmas Eve edition, were used as padding for it, and only discovered when the whale was being moved. 35. She wore it to Royal Ascot to protest at horse race deaths 36. Vinnie Jones was recruited to promote the London Crisp Company. 37. Richard O’Brien, creator of the Rocky Horror Show in the 1970s and the Crystal Maze on TV in the 1990s. 38. It was filmed at Ightham Mote, near Borough Green. 39. Former Maidstone and the Weald MP Ann Widdecombe.
JULY
40. A Stacked! was inspired by Operation Stack. 41. Game of Thrones on Sky Atlantic. 42. The Vicar’s Picnic in Yalding, near Maidstone. 43. 2004. 44. Matt Damon. 45. 2008.
AUGUST
46. The Who singer Roger Daltrey. 47. Jethro Tull. 48. Gregg, who lives in Whitstable, married 30-year-old Anne-Marie Sterpini, at Hever Castle. 49. The Darling Buds of May, which starred Catherine Zeta Jones. 50. Ola and James Jordan.
SEPTEMBER
51. DIY SOS: The Big Build. 52. Absolutely Fabulous star Joanna Lumley, a long-term supporter of Gurkha rights, visited Ashford School to meet Gurkha families and veterans and support the Gurkha Pace Foundation. 53. Club Class, due to come to Maidstone Studios in March. 54. Shoreham, near Swanley 55. Paul Hollywood
OCTOBER
56. Gemma Arterton, a former Gravesend Grammar School for Girls student, returned to shoot The Escape. 57. Glamour model Crystal Hefner, who married Playboy publisher Hugh Hefner in 2012 when he was 86 and she was 26. She posted pictures of the castle and White Cliffs. 58. Tonbridge School. 59. Robbie Williams, filming his single Love My Life on Leysdown beach. 60. Northfleet 61. A robot in the Channel 4 series Humans.
NOVEMBER
62. Former Strictly dancer Ola Jordan and Olympic hockey player Sam Quek.
63. A spoof article claimed Adam had thanked Maidstone residents for helping him when he got a flat tyre. 64. He stepped in to dancer Ola Jordan’s shoes when she pulled out of the West Malling Christmas lights switch-on because she was on I’m a Celebrity! 65. Vic Reeves 66. Donald Trump, who was holding Hillary Clinton’s head
DECEMBER
67. A baby giraffe on Thursday, December 1, to first time mother, Lehana. 68. The Last Leg 69. Fourth, behind Coronation Street’s Adam Thomas, comedian Joel Hammett and Gogglebox’s Scarlett Moffatt. 70. Bernice 71. Matt Terry picked up his family in his “battle bus” in Sutton Road, Maidstone before travelling to Bromley to perform. 72. Beatrix Potter