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Online petition sparks debate on new grammar school in Sevenoaks

Parents have been calling for it for years, now the idea of a new grammar school in Sevenoaks is being debated by Kent County Council.

Parents have been calling for it for years, now the idea of a new grammar school in Sevenoaks is being debated by Kent County Council.

It follows more than 1,000 signatures collected on an online petition in less than a month.

How often are your bins collected? It is a subject which always gets local council tax payers hot under the collar. And, perhaps strangely, a debate which central government seems keen to get involved in too. It has offered councils Β£250m to improve waste collection services.

Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio Kent has learned that all of our councils will be collecting food waste every week by the end of 2013.

A report out today on assisted suicide is a missed opportunity, according to a man from Kent who has locked-in syndrome and has been campaigning to end his life lawfully.

The commission on assisted suicide is calling for terminally ill people who have less than a year to live, to be allowed help to die.

It was Dickens last novel, but for one Kent youngster there are hopes that a starring role in The Mystery of Edwin Drood could be just the start of something big.

Alfie Davis, who is from Herne Bay, was chosen from more than one hundred boys to play the role of Deputy.

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  • Thu 5 Jan 2012 06:00