Dover News - November 2017

With winter getting closer, a volunteer Snow Warden scheme has been reopened by Dover District Council today. Snow Wardens are volunteers from the local community who give up their spare time to help clear snow and spread grit on footpaths near their homes during bad weather.

Community groups in the area are set to benefit from more than £22,000 funding from Dover District Council in the latest round of the Neighbourhood Forum Community Grants Scheme. Funding totalling £22,980 was allocated by the Grants Appraisal Panel, which was made up of the District Councillors who chair the five Neighbourhood Forum areas, and was approved by Cabinet yesterday.

The trustees of LoveDover, the charity set up to help regenerate parts of the town, are looking for people to operate from a building in the Market Square once it has been refurbished. They are looking for an individual or organisation who would be interested in leasing the ground floor and basement of what is currently Dickens Corner for a commercial use, but also fitting in with the charity's aims of providing training facilities for residents of Dover.

As the country prepares for its annual Act of Remembrance, people are being asked to share their views on proposals for a Commonwealth War Memorial on the Western Heights in Dover. The public consultation runs from 10 November to 10 December 2017.

Over two thousand people attended a Jobs and Skills Fair on Thursday, as major regeneration and investment projects start to deliver new jobs and career opportunities in Dover District.

Kent Police is appealing for witnesses following a report of an aggravated burglary in Capel-le-Ferne. The incident happened at a property in Cauldham Lane at around 11.15pm on Thursday.

A big thank you is being sent out to all the knitters who provided fantastic support for the area's Knitted Poppy Appeal. Over a thousand poppies were delivered to local collection points and helped to make a giant poppy carpet, which featured in a range of events as part of the remembrance commemorations in Dover District.

A Dover man who admitted attacking his victim with a glass bottle, a knife and a pair of scissors has been jailed for seven and a half years. William Hicks had initially denied carrying out the assault at a house in Dover on 3 March 2017.

Dover District Council is reminding everyone that they are supporting Small Business Saturday again this year by offering free parking in DDC off-street car parks on Saturday 2 December 2017.

The Zeebrugge Bell has returned to Dover following restoration and cleaning at the Loughborough bell foundry of John Taylor & Co. The Zeebrugge Bell was given to the people of Dover by HM The King of the Belgians, Albert I, as a souvenir of the naval raid on Zeebrugge harbour on St George's Day.

Detectives investigating the death of a baby in Dover have charged a man with murder. Kent Police was called to an address in Crabble on 7 January by South East Coast Ambulance Service following a report that a nine-week-old baby had been taken to a local hospital in a seriously ill condition.