Dover News - July 2009

A man from Dumbarton appeared in court today (2 July 2009) after officers from the UK Border Agency (UKBA) seized approximately three kilos of cocaine at Dover's Eastern Docks on 30 June 2009. The drugs have an estimated street value of £120,000.

Local residents are invited to come along and have their say at the latest Neighbourhood Forum meeting being held at Dover North on Wednesday 15 July.

The Funky Monkey Bar in Bench Street, Dover, has had a significant reduction in the area available for customers to use following a Licensing Review on Tuesday 30 June 2009.

Local residents are invited to come along and have their say at the latest Neighbourhood Forum meeting being held at Dover West on Monday 20 July 2009 at Ramada Hotel, Whitfield from 6.30pm.

Event organisers are looking for local dancers and dance groups to take part in this year's Cultural Olympiad Celebrations in Dover Market Square on Saturday 29 August.

As part of its ongoing work to support regeneration for the future, representatives from Dover District Council attended a key meeting of The Alliance, formally the Coalfield Communities Campaign, on 3 July.

An amazing weekend of events is ready for take off in Dover from 25-26 July - as the town prepares for a high-flying celebration of the hundredth anniversary of Louis Blériot's epic flight across the English Channel.

As part of the 2009 Festival of British Archaeology, Dover Museum and Bronze Age Boat Gallery will be holding a morning of free lectures on the subject of the 3,500 year old Dover boat on Monday 20 July.

A man from Essex is due to appear in court today after officers from the UK Border Agency (UKBA) seized approximately 10 kilos of cocaine worth about £400,000 at Dover's Eastern Docks.

Local residents are invited to come along and have their say at the latest round of Neighbourhood Forum meetings being held at Dover Town on Thursday 23 July.

For the second time this week, significant quantities of Class A drugs have been seized at Dover Ferry Port. A man from North Wales is due to appear in court today after officers seized approximately 120 kilos of heroin worth about £5,400,000 and about six kilos of amphetamine sulphate worth about £60,000.

More than 8,000 people of all ages have enjoyed the chance to have fun and feel alive at three amazing free events this summer from Active Dover - including the fantastic Get Wet day held at Pencester Gardens in Dover on Saturday (18 July).

An amazing weekend of events is ready for take off in Dover this weekend (25-26 July) - and the town is ready for a high-flying celebration of the hundredth anniversary of Louis Blériot's epic flight across the English Channel.

An Ashford man has been jailed for 30 months after attempting to smuggle over 3.5 million cigarettes through Dover and evade £556,381.80 in excise duty by disguising the haul as a consignment of barbeques.

Essential maintenance and enhancements are being carried out on the railway between Folkestone and Dover to help improve reliability of train services and enable the new Southeastern Highspeed services to operate on the line from December 2009.

After the discovery of a second large quantity of heroin in a lorry at Dover Ferry Port in just over a week, investigators from HM Revenue & Customs are questioning the driver of the vehicle.

A lorry driver from Kent has been jailed for seven years after HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) officers investigated the attempted importation of over 2 kilos of cocaine into the UK through Dover's Eastern Docks.

A Liverpool man has been jailed for 20 years after HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) officers investigated the attempted importation of 90.18 kilos of heroin and 10.97 kilos of cocaine into the UK through Dover Ferry Port. The estimated street value of the drugs is about £4.5 million.