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Local Authority @localauthority.news · 1d

➡️ Princes Park councillor defects to Reform
🕍 Faith and fear in Medway's Jewish community
🗞️ News in brief, and more

Princes Park councillor defects to Reform

Plus faith and fear in Medway’s Jewish community, news in brief, and more

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Ed Jennings @edjennings.bsky.social · 2d

Multiple Conservative councillors in Kent are defecting to Reform today.

Cllr Robbie Lammas in Medway, a former staffer to Richard Holden, has jumped.

Cllr Gary Harding, Cllr David Beattie, Cllr Emma Elliott, and Cllr Aaron Elliott in Gravesham defected en masse this morning in Gravesham.

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Local Authority @localauthority.news · 8d

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 As the far-right plots two protests for Medway, just how seriously should we be taking them?
📍 Medway's lonely reorganisation
🗞️ News in brief, and more.

Marching orders

The far-right plot two protests for Medway. Plus Medway's lonely reorganisation to be examined, news in brief, and more

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Local Authority @localauthority.news · 9d

🎖️ Medway's overlooked treasure trove of military history
🗣️ Glassbox lecture casts a spell
🥓 We review Piggyz
🎟️ Our weekly events guide
🗞️ News in brief, and more

Medway’s overlooked treasure trove of military history

Plus Glassbox lecture casts a spell, we review Piggyz, our weekly events guide, and more

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Local Authority @localauthority.news · 15d

As ministers demand fewer, bigger councils, Kent’s authorities struggle to agree on who goes where. Bob Collins digs into what's going on and where Medway might end up.

North Kent or nowhere?

As ministers demand fewer, bigger councils, Kent’s authorities struggle to agree on who goes where

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Local Authority @localauthority.news · 15d

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Council pledges to remove Medway's lamppost flags
🧑‍💻 Medway integrates more AI into services
🏗️ Brownfield scheme gets funding boost
🗞️ News in brief, and more

Council pledges to remove Medway’s lamppost flags

Plus AI to the rescue, brownfield scheme gets funding boost, news in brief, and more

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Local Authority @localauthority.news · 16d

⛵ Barges find new life on the Medway
⚓ Festival of Chatham Reach returns
➡️ Reform school latest
🚜 Farmers' market turns 25
🐟 We review Fish at 55
🎟️ Our weekly events guide
🗞️ News in brief, and more

Barges find new life on the Medway

Plus Festival of Chatham Reach returns, Reform school latest, farmers' market turns 25, we review Fish at 55, our weekly events guide, news in brief, and more

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Local Authority @localauthority.news · 22d

A Medway school is giving away a Reform football shirt as part of an essay writing contest on how the party has 'obliterated' the two-party system. They say this is all normal, and they do this for all parties.

Students, parents, and other politicians disagree.

Our exclusive story:

Farage football shirt offered as essay prize in Medway school

Plus Medway MP gets promoted and hears from the worst people, news in brief, and more

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Local Authority @localauthority.news · 24d

🎭 From page to stage - Medway author's book on Bosnian genocide is adapted into play
🎸 Theatre Royal at Three Sheets to the Wind
🍣 We review Boba Tigers
🎟️ Our weekly events guide
🗞️ News in brief, and more

From page to stage

Plus Theatre Royal at Three Sheets, we review Boba Tigers, our weekly events guide, news in brief, and more

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Stuart Bourne 🌷🌱 @stuartbourne.bsky.social · 29d

My latest article for @localauthority.news is now out, and you can read it here:

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🌱 #Gardening #UKGardening

Autumn arrives early

How to adapt our gardens to climate change, Medway's lack of allotments, a perfect Medway park for autumn, and more

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Local Authority @localauthority.news · Sep 9

🏠 The fight over Medway's HMOs
📍 Two Kent maps left standing
🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 MP supports flag erections
🗞️ News in brief, and more

The fight over Medway’s HMOs

Plus two Kent maps left standing, MP supports flag erections, news in brief, and more

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Local Authority @localauthority.news · Sep 5

⚽ Gillingham are top of the league, but can it last?
🗳️ Results from yesterday's Grain by-election
🎟️ Our weekly events guide
🗞️ News in brief, and more

Top of the league

Plus a parish council by-election special, our weekly events guide, news in brief, and more

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Local Authority @localauthority.news · Sep 3

🗣️ Councillor found to have bullied nursery boss insists 'all is not as it seems'
🗳️ Democracy on a rota
🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Flag wars keep raging
🗞️ News in brief, and more

Councillor found to have bullied nursery boss insists ‘all is not as it seems’

Plus democracy on a rota, flag wars keep going, news in brief, and more

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Local Authority @localauthority.news · Sep 1

For our weekend interview, Steven sat down with Phil Bungay and Martin Nagler of the Medway Neurological Network. They talk about their respective conditions, the upcoming conference Neuro-Tech 25 in Medway, and the work of the network.

“The times I've been accused of being drunk is unbelievable”

What Steven asked Phil Bungay and Martin Nadler of the Medway Neurological Network

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Local Authority @localauthority.news · Aug 29

🎭 Playtime for grown-ups - how one organisation is encouraging creativity through improv
🏗️ The bridge trust helping students into engineering
🎟️ Our weekly events guide
🗞️ News in brief, and more

Playtime for grown-ups

Plus helping students into engineering, our weekly events guide, news in brief, and more

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Local Authority @localauthority.news · Aug 28

In the latest in our series of columns by Medway's elected representatives, Gillingham and Rainham MP @naushabahkhanmp.bsky.social writes for us about flags, the challenges facing the constituency, and work to regenerate town centres.

Voice of the MP - Gillingham and Rainham

Naushabah Khan MP on flags, the challenges facing the constituency, and work to regenerate town centres

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Local Authority @localauthority.news · Aug 27

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 We have to talk about flags, apparently
💸 Medway debt surges 36% in a year
🏢 Council staff happy with pay but other problems linger
🗞️ News in brief, and more

Flags, apparently

Plus Medway debt surges 36% in a year, Council staff happy with pay but other problems linger, news in brief, and more

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Local Authority @localauthority.news · Aug 26

It's fair to say that our interview with Medway Reform councillor John Vye has.. evoked some opinions. We sat down with him to discuss what brought him to Medway, why he joined Reform, being a councillor, and lots more.

“We live rent free in their heads, they can’t get rid of us”

What we asked John Vye, Reform councillor for Rochester East and Warren Wood

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Local Authority @localauthority.news · Aug 20

💷 Medway Council requires 'exceptional' financial support for a third year running.
📍 Medway offers a future council map that manages to annoy everyone
🗞️ News in brief, and more

When exceptional support is no longer exceptional

Plus Medway offers own proposal for future council map that annoys everyone, news in brief, and more

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Local Authority @localauthority.news · Aug 19

For our weekend interview, we sat down with Jacob Granger, who went from running a DIY music venue in Medway to becoming the community editor and podcast host at @journalismnews.bsky.social.

“We are humans at the end of the day”

What Steven asked Jacob Granger, the new community editor of journalism.co.uk

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Local Authority @localauthority.news · Aug 18

📖 A Medway activity book has become so successful that the creator now makes versions for new locales
🛗 Sun Pier House lifts off
🍲 We review Pam Exotic Jerk
🎟️ Our weekly events guide, and more

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Activity book is Medway’s newest export

Plus Sun Pier House lifts off, we review Pam Exotic Jerk, our weekly events guide, and more

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Rhys Griffiths @rhysdgriffiths.bsky.social · Aug 12

Forza @localauthority.news!

'Local Authority' proves paid-for local news can work in UK towns as well as big cities

Local Authority is a newsletter covering the Medway region of Kent.

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Steven Keevil @stevenkeevil.bsky.social · Aug 13

After a long wait, I finally interviewed River Medway for @localauthority.news

We talked about their new musical 'Here & Now', how they became River Medway, and what people can look forward to at Medway Pride

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“Just because you put a wig on, it doesn't change who you are“

What Steven asked River Medway, legendary Drag Race contestant

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Maxim @maximpr.bsky.social · Aug 13

We're lucky to have journalists trying different models of providing local news in Kent and Medway.

This article is definitely worth a read. If you haven't subscribed to @localauthority.news, @kentcurrent.news or @folkestonedispatch.substack.com yet, take a look.

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'Local Authority' proves paid-for local news can work in UK towns as well as big cities

Local Authority is a newsletter covering the Medway region of Kent.

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Local Authority @localauthority.news · Aug 11

For our big weekend interview, we finally got to sit down with River Medway, who catapulted Waghorn into the national consciousness by dressing as the iconic statue on RuPaul's Drag Race.

“Just because you put a wig on, it doesn't change who you are“

What Steven asked River Medway, legendary Drag Race contestant

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