Alma Road, Folkestone will be closed on Thursday 3 June 2010 and Waterloo Road, Folkestone will be closed on Friday 4 June 2010 to enable Kent Highway Services to carry out high friction surfacing works for an estimated day each.
The Coalition Government today announced that ID cards are to be scrapped for British citizens within 100 days.
The County Council's Conservative administration has recently decided to allow members of the public to submit petitions at meetings of the whole Council, not just at committee meetings. This is something that the Liberal Democrat group at County Hall have requested many times in order to open up the Council, but which until now has always been refused by the Conservative administration, even as recently as March this year.
Liberal Democrats are celebrating after they won all 24 seats in Today's deferred Kendal Town Council Elections - gaining three seats from the Labour, re-gaining one from the Green's and one from an independent.
Britain's welfare system is "trapping" poor people in poverty, the work and pensions secretary said as he unveiled plans for far-reaching reforms. Iain Duncan Smith wants to ensure benefit claimants are not made worse off by working and make state support conditional on willingness to work. He said the current benefits system was "broken" and unaffordable.
Proposals to give free prescriptions to people in England with long-term conditions have been put on hold due to financial pressures on the NHS. Health minister Simon Burns said a decision on prescription charges and exemptions cannot be made before the spending review due in the autumn.