Dover News - June 2011

Community groups looking for help with projects that can show benefit to the local community are invited to apply for capital grants of up to £2,500 from the Dover District Neighbourhood Forums.

Dover Harbour Board (DHB) and Dover Rugby Football Club (DRFC) have announced a major new partnership designed to support the development of grass roots rugby in Dover.

Following last year's successful event there is another chance for the public to come and meet Officers from the Port of Dover Police Neighbourhood Policing Unit.

Local residents are invited to come along and have their say at the next Dover Town Neighbourhood Forum meeting on Thursday 16 June at St Mary's Parish Centre, Cannon Street, Dover from 6pm.

Peak-time journeys through the port for all drivers are likely to become quicker and easier thanks to a major new £6.5m project managed by Dover Harbour Board's Development team.

Dover District Council has announced that, following extensive work with Dover Harbour Board, it has reached agreement on the Harbour Revision Order and is able to withdraw its objections, which were previously submitted.

Two men have been sentenced to a total of 22 years in prison after being found guilty of smuggling nearly two kilos of heroin into the UK through Dover.

Three Port of Dover Police Officers will be taking on the challenge that is the 54 mile London to Brighton bike ride this Sunday.

A man involved in an attempt to smuggle over one million branded cigarettes into the UK through Dover, hidden in boxes of pillows, has been sentenced at Maidstone Crown Court. The duty evaded was approximately £189,000.

Dover Harbour Board has announced renewed support for the Young Enterprise scheme in Dover District for the fourth consecutive year.

Local residents are being invited to have their say at the next Dover North and Dover West Neighbourhood Forum meeting.

Plans to refurbish some of Dover port's iconic buildings are under way as part of Dover Harbour Board's project to preserve listed properties over the next 3-4 years.

Drugs with a street value of more than £19m have been seized at Dover after the UK Border Agency foiled two smuggling attempts at the port in two days.

Dover District Council is welcoming major news that a key economic partnership for Kent, Essex and East Sussex has selected the Pfizer site at Sandwich as its first choice for Enterprise Zone status for the future.

Dover District Council Building Control is welcoming news that two building projects in the district, at the Oddfellows Club in Dover and Sea Haze in St Margaret's, were among the finalists at the Local Authority Building Control Regional Awards 2011.