Dover News - March 2018

The Royal Life Saving Society has praised the Port of Dover for backing its crucial community safety work. The UK's leading drowning prevention charity has conferred the status of -

Flags are set to be raised in locations across the UK and around the Commonwealth on Monday to mark Commonwealth Day - including an event at the Dover District Council offices in Whitfield from 9.50am.

A 42-year-old man has been charged in connection with three burglaries in King Street and Priory Place, Dover.

Over 800 Year 8 students attended the first ever Dover Youth Conference, organised by Dover District Council and the Dover District Community Safety Partnership, and there was a surprise in store as acclaimed MC and rapper, Harry Shotta, made a guest appearance.

As part of a wide range of initiatives to promote skills and training opportunities, Dover District Council is to launch its first higher level apprenticeships to mark National Apprenticeship Week.

The Chairman of the Council, Cllr Sue Chandler, cut the ribbon to officially open Dover's new six-screen, 900 seat Cineworld cinema at the St James development this lunchtime.

A 19-year-old man has been arrested in connection with burglaries in Dover businesses. Kent Police is investigating reports of 21 burglaries from businesses in High Street, Biggin Street, Cherry Tree Avenue, Elms Vale Road, Pencester Road, Market Square, and Castle Street between 1 February and 5 March 2018.

Dover District Council has signed a 12 year management contract with Places for People Leisure. PfP Leisure take over the management of the existing Dover Leisure Centre on Townwall Street from 1 April 2018 which will remain open until the new £26m Dover District Leisure Centre opens at Whitfield early in 2019.

A Dover man who blamed the injuries he inflicted on a former partner on her dog has been jailed. Arron Stanley, of Shooters Hill, Dover, denied controlling or coercive behaviour and one count of assault during a trial at Canterbury Crown Court.

Dover District Council has launched a consultation today on plans to renew the order controlling dogs in the district, with some minor changes. DDC introduced a Public Spaces Protection Order in 2015, covering a range of matters including areas where dogs are banned or where they need to be kept on a lead.

Detectives are carrying out enquiries after a man was reported missing from a boat in Dover. The man in his 40s was diving in the English Channel yesterday when he failed to return to the boat.

A cold case investigation into the 2007 death of a man in Hythe has led to an arrest on suspicion of murder at an address in Dover. Wayne Baker was rescued from a fire in the afternoon of Sunday 11 November 2007, but died a month later in hospital.

A 19-year-old man has been charged in connection with burglaries in Dover businesses. The Crown Prosecution Service has authorised two counts of burglary against Kye Dunn, of no fixed address.

Three cannons have been returned to take pride of place adjacent to Dover's Grade I listed Maison Dieu following restoration. The works included cleaning the cannons and building new gun carriages from English Oak. The guns are believed to be over 200 years old and were gifted to the town by Alderman Matthew Pepper.

Officers are investigating a report of an attempted robbery in Shepherdswell. Kent Police received a report that at 8.15pm last night a man entered a shop in Eythorne Road and threatened a member of staff with a knife.

Dover District Council's in-house Parks & Open Spaces team has welcomed the first community payback placements for people serving their sentence in the community in a new partnership with the Kent, Surrey and Sussex Community Rehabilitation Company.

Small, high street businesses from across the Dover district attended the first Business Question Time event organised by the Dover District Chamber of Commerce, with the support of Dover District Council. Among the topical issues discussed were business rates, tourism, new homes, and competition from online retailing.

Kent Police officers are investigating after cash, thought to be around £70,000, was seized in Dover.

As part of their work to develop housing options for the future, Dover District Council is looking for people or groups that want to find out more about community led housing or self-build projects.

Special events are being held this weekend to mark the centenary of the death of First World War hero Walter Tull, whose mother, Alice Palmer, was born in Dover. Several relatives still live in Dover, Folkestone and Maidstone and they will be among those attending events to mark 100 years since he was killed by a German sniper during the second battle of the Somme on 25 March 1918.

A Special Constable's statement, taken from the back of an ambulance, has helped secure the conviction of a man who repeatedly struck a victim around the head with a glass bottle. The volunteer officer became aware of the assault while attending an unrelated incident in Dover and, while accompanying the victim to hospital, learned that Rytis Baltrukoanis had carried out the assault.

Two men have been arrested on suspicion of supplying class A drugs in Dover. Officers made the arrests yesterday morning after carrying out a warrant under the Misuse of Drugs Act at an address in Park Avenue, Dover.

Kent Police is appealing for witnesses to a serious collision in Dover. The collision was reported to have happened on Maison Dieu Road at the junction with Crafford Street earlier today.

Officers investigating an altercation in Dover are appealing for witnesses. The incident is reported to have happened between 8.30pm and 9pm on Monday 19 March at the junction of Noah's Ark Terrace and Edred Road.

Schoolchildren in Buckland were given a helping hand from local PCSOs as they tried to unravel who pushed Humpty Dumpty off the wall. PCSOs James Goss and Ben Bromley visited Green Park Community Primary School's Palace class to talk to the children about Kent Police and offer them safety advice.