Dover News - February 2013

A teenage boy who crashed his car, killing one of his best friends, just a week after passing his driving test, has been sentenced to six months in prison and banned from driving for four years.

Dover Town Council are offering free use of the Pavilion in Pencester Gardens to local groups, organisations and individuals wanting to stage a small event or performance, or even hold a community group meeting.

A Royal Mail Group worker from Dover has been cracking nuts to help raise awareness of prostate cancer.

Operation Cubit targeted Dover District on Thursday 31 January and Friday 1 February and removed 7 abandoned and untaxed vehicles from the streets of the area.

Police in Dover, Deal and Sandwich are stopping cyclists in the towns as part of a campaign to reduce cycle theft.

Police are investigating reports that a bogus charity collector has been obtaining money from householders in Aylesham near Dover.

Police in Dover are warning pubs and clubs to make sure their bar staff ask customers for identity, following a number of complaints of underage drinking and a recent assault where the victim was just 16 years old.

Police in Dover are appealing for help from the port community to trace a man who lived in Dover in the mid-1980s as he may be a valuable witness.

A lorry driver from Croatia has been sentenced to eight years in prison after being found guilty of attempting to smuggle drugs into the UK through Dover

The Port of Dover has announced that it has once again achieved OHSAS 18001 certification, the internationally recognised standard for occupational health and safety.

A special exhibition has opened at Dover Museum looking at Pastimes Through Time.

Dover Cruise Port welcomes the first cruise ship of the season with the arrival of Fred Olsen's Braemar on the 25th March at the start of a 14 day cruise to the Canary Islands.

Local residents are invited to come along and find out about a range of public services at the next Dover West Neighbourhood Forum meeting on Thursday 7 March.

An off-duty police officer in Ardent Road, Whitfield, at 6.35pm on Wednesday 20 February, intervened with two youths who were carrying flower pots and looked suspicious.

Following its long association with Investors in People, the Port of Dover has for the first time received the prestigious Bronze level award for its business culture and practice.

Kent Police is appealing for witnesses who may have seen a collision on the A20 near Dover on Friday 8 February.

Dover's RNLI Lifeboat 'City Of London II' launched on service yesterday evening to assist the tug MTS Taktow, who's towline had become entangled on the South Falls buoy, 10 miles north east of Dover.

Police targeting thieves who steal and break into vehicles have arrested two men and a teenager from the Dover and Canterbury areas.

Police are appealing for information after a gold ring was stolen from the finger of a Dover woman who was staying at Pilgrims Hospice in Canterbury.