Dover News - January 2018

Tributes have been paid to a Dover mother who was once ranked as one of the top female snooker players in the world. Dawn Wells, who died aged 46, was diagnosed with cancer in 2015. She and her partner Simon had two sons, Daniel and Matthew, and a Requiem Mass celebrating her life was held at St Paul's Roman Catholic Church in Dover.

Dover District Council is heralding 2018 as a year of new openings and opportunities across the Dover District, starting with the Cineworld six-screen, 900 seat multiplex cinema opening on Friday, 2 February at the St James leisure and retail development in Dover town centre.

Freight volumes through the Port of Dover have reached record levels for the fifth consecutive year. The Port handled 2,601,162 lorries in 2017 - up on the previous record by almost 10,000 units. It brings the total increase over the last five years to just under 650,000 units or 33% per cent.

Following enforcement action by Dover District Council, the use of land as an unauthorised lorry park in Coombe Valley Road, Dover, has ceased.

If you're looking to save money as the new year gets underway, why not find out if you could get a better deal on your energy - the latest round of Dover District Council's collective energy switching scheme, Energy Deal is open until 12 February.

Officers investigating a report of an attempted robbery at a Dover jewellery store are appealing for witnesses to come forward. At around 5.25pm on Friday (12 January 2018), two men entered the shop in Tower Hamlets Road.

Following the success of the Later Life Address Book last year, Dover District Council is launching a second edition of the popular directory, which includes details of -

Kent Police officers are appealing for information into a reported robbery in Shepherdswell where a bicycle was stolen from a teenage boy. At around 4.30pm on Tuesday 16 January the victim was cycling in the area of Siberts Close when a man approached him and asked for directions. It is alleged that whilst the boy was giving him directions he was pushed off the bike and the bike was taken.

Roof beams for the new £26m Dover District Leisure Centre are set to make their way from the Port of Dover to Whitfield in a special overnight operation on Wednesday. The glulam beams have been manufactured by Rubner Holzbau in Austria and are being shipped to Dover by ferry.

The independent Local Government Boundary Commission for England is asking local people for their help to draw up a new pattern of council wards for Dover District Council. The consultation is the first part of an electoral review which will re-draw ward boundaries across the district.