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Poor Nikki managed to puke over the sight of the catch.....

I heard that at a recent weekend seminar about planning issues given to local councillors, a speaker told told them to be aware of just one rule, BANANA. This apparently is an acronym for Build Absolutely Nothing Anywhere Near Anything. Was the speaker being serious? I'm sure some people would have answered a big yes.

The litter bins have at long last started to appear and the protests of the NOMH group, 'Not Outside My House' are being heard across the village. People have kicked up enough fuss about getting them, so what's the problem? I'm not complaining, but then I haven't got one outside my house.

Some readers seem to have it in for PC Trevor, harping back to bygone days when the village copper lived in a police house in the community and could be seen either walking the streets or on his bike. Those days are gone and in their place are budgets and panda cars and targets and paperwork, lots of it. Our village bobby, PC Moody patrols eight villages, and not just Hawkinge. So give the guy a break, he doesn't make the rules, write to Mike Fuller, the Chief Constable if you have any problems with local policing. As far as I can see the proof is in the pudding and Hawkinge crime rates have continued to fall.

The local Lib Dems are advertising for a parliamentary candidate to take over from Peter Carroll after he failed to unseat Michael Howard in the last election. They say in their blurb, the retirement of Mr Howard, gives the Lib Dems an excellent chance to progress in this 'Moving forward seat'. With the highest Lib Dem vote in Kent, no labour Councillors locally, a strong and active local party with its own headquarters, there is a real opportunity to present an effective challenge to the Conservatives. I suppose it will to a lesser or greater degree depend upon whether local constituents can forget the disastrous reign of the Lib Dems when they briefly controlled Shepway council. 

I've had enough of Nikki, the only Big Brother contestant to be voted out of the house twice. I don't know about you, but I am sick of the publicity given by our local papers to granny-faced Nikki Grahame. So what, if she comes to Folkestone for a couple of days, and works in a chip shop for a TV show which is riding on the success of the recent Big Brother series. One of her tasks in the show was to go fishing on a local trawler. But poor Nikki managed to puke over the sight of the catch. I know just how you feel Nikki, I felt the same way watching you.

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