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Five weeks till Summer Festival
COMMUNITY groups’ events are at the heart of the Sevenoaks Summer Festival 2025, which opens in five weeks’ time.
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May 15, 2025
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VE Day: Let's party like it's 1945!
EIGHTY years ago today, Sevenoaks celebrated at street parties, bells rang and lights shone out as they hadn’t for six long years of war.
2 min |
May 08, 2025
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WEED WOES
IT'S TIME TO SHOW THE DOOR TO THOSE UNINVITED SPRING GARDEN GUESTS
2 min |
May 08, 2025
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VE DAY CELEBRATIONS
Parades and parties across Britain to show our gratitude for war effort
3 min |
May 08, 2025
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Conservative leader Gough loses seat - full district results
THE Conservative leader of Kent County Council was one of four Tories to lose their seats to Reform UK in Sevenoaks.
1 min |
May 08, 2025
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Hollman's century paves way for dramatic defeat for Kent
LUKE Hollman's maiden century paved the way for Middlesex to snatch a dramatic victory as they edged past Kent in a see-saw Rothesay County Championship classic at Lord's.
3 min |
May 08, 2025
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Separate lives
Historian Margaret Sheridan, who lives in the village of Alveley in Shrops, which hosted 80 evacuees, tells how children generally weren't shipped that far away from their homes.
6 min |
May 08, 2025
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Another busy month at local Rotary Club
ANOTHER month - another interesting after-dinner speaker at the Rotary Club of Edenbridge and Westerham.
1 min |
May 08, 2025
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How to choose the right cover for your holiday
WITHOUT THE RIGHT INSURANCE, YOUR TRIP COULD TURN INTO A COSTLY AFFAIR, SAYS CAMILLA FOSTER
3 min |
May 08, 2025
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Gardeners urged to think of 'weeds' as wildflowers
HOUSEHOLDERS are being urged to rethink their attitude to wildflowers in gardens
2 min |
May 08, 2025
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Dodging the enemy... and celebrating victory
D-DAY hero Jack Mortimer chuckles as he remembers belting out Moonlight Becomes You in front of hundreds of people during VE Day celebrations overseas.
3 min |
May 08, 2025
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Leeds Castle in search for community choir to sing at concert
COMMUNITY choirs in Kent are being offered the chance to sing with the world-famous Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and the London International Gospel Choir in the grounds of Leeds Castle for a night of musical magic in front of thousands of people.
1 min |
May 08, 2025
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Rock on for Bloom
Leadline
1 min |
May 08, 2025
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Transmission accomplished
Alexandra Palace officially opened 150 years ago. MARION McMULLEN finds how Ally Pally became the birthplace of BBC TV
3 min |
May 08, 2025
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Luke's hoping for no rain pain
CAPTAIN SCHLEMMER SAYS POOR WEATHER COST VINE LAST YEAR
2 min |
May 08, 2025
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Beware summer swindles: My guide to the latest cons
MARTYN JAMES YOUR CONSUMER RIGHTS CHAMPION
2 min |
May 08, 2025
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Bernard was one of first to know war in Europe was over
A BRAVE young man from Crewe had one hell of a secret to keep during the Second World War. It was no ordinary secret... but frontline codebreaker Bernard Morgan was no ordinary young man.
3 min |
May 08, 2025
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Town centre plan on next stage
'ONCE-IN-A-GENERATION' PROJECT MOVES A STEP CLOSER
2 min |
May 08, 2025
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Sevenoaks Festival to return next month
SEVENOAKS Summer Festival returns on Saturday, June 21 - just six weeks away.
1 min |
May 08, 2025
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Wolf Hall costumes on display at Hever Castle
A UNIQUE display of historically accurate costumes from TV drama Wolf Hall: The Mirror and the Light, is on display at Hever Castle & Gardens until November 2.
1 min |
May 08, 2025
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the hard work starts for new people at the helm...
Commissioner Matthew Scott described the catastrophe that befell them as “potentially existential”.
2 min |
May 08, 2025
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RUNAWAY SUCCESS
HERE'S no stopping the runaway success of Kia in today's ever-changing car market, certainly when it comes to introducing new, all-electric models which has led them to a string of international Car of the Year awards.
4 min |
May 08, 2025
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Teamwork leads to 7,000 new trees being planted
MARKERSTUDY Group, which is headquartered in Sevenoaks, has formed a partnership with Treeapp one of the UK's leading tree planting organisations.
1 min |
May 08, 2025
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Henry's near miss just before the end
A WAR veteran whose ship was narrowly missed by a torpedo just days before VE Day says he is frightened, as he can see a world war erupting once again.
3 min |
May 08, 2025
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Local elections were tough
LAST week's local elections were tough and unfortunately we lost many outstanding local councillors, including Roger Gough (former Kent County Council leader and member for Sevenoaks North and Darenth Valley) and Perry Cole in Swanley.
1 min |
May 08, 2025
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Walk this way...
AS I walked through the forest I suddenly heard a heavenly chorus that seemed for a split second to be putting me on the path to cloud nine.
4 min |
May 01, 2025
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BORN TO BE WILDE
OSCAR WILDE FOUND HIMSELF IN COURT 130 YEARS AGO. MARION MCMULLEN LOOKS AT THE TUMULTUOUS LIFE OF THE WRITER AND WIT
3 min |
May 01, 2025
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Planning refusal would spell 'disaster' for castle
PLANNING OFFICERS DESCRIBED RESTAURANT'S MOCK-TUDOR DESIGN AS A 'POOR PASTICHE'
2 min |
May 01, 2025
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Lib Dem deputy launches attack on 'Trump pal' MP Nigel Farage
LIBERAL Democrat deputy leader Daisy Cooper launched an attack on Reform UK leader Nigel Farage on a visit to Kent ahead of today's county council elections.
1 min |
May 01, 2025
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'Could have been even better'
OAKS BOSS NIMANI HOPING THAT HE'S NOT LEFT TO RUE THEIR DRAWS
3 min |