2008-02-07UTC05:13:13Canterbury Twitter chatter kicking offBeen monitoring twitter.com for mentions of Canterbury, and it's all kicked off today after the archbishop made some ill judged comment or other about Sharia law:These messages were sent while you were offline.3:39 PM twitter: (conservatweet): [Jawa]... 2008-01-22UTC07:22:09Black MondayStop selling everyone, and you the news, stop telling people how bad it is, it's just making the ill informed small investors like me worry more, and sell, and exacerbate the problem. The market is only about as low as it was in mid August right now,... 2007-07-16UTC08:31:08And another; DexterAl says:Here's one for your diaries ...Dexter returns in the States on September 30th !!!That's series two, if you are in some way able to get American TV, hmm... Series one is just starting on terrestrial TV here, you should watch it it was GREAT. A... 2007-04-02UTC01:15:55Glastonbury ticket touts FOILED!So says the BBC, the new security measures and pre-registration mean no Glastonbury tickets on ebay, nor on any of the other online ticket touts.In other music news today, EMI are to remove DRM from MP3s, you know what those TLAs mean if you need to.... 2006-10-06UTC08:42:43RoundupInterview yesterday was good, but it's a small company and I'm still after more money than they can afford. It wis great to work on interesting projects, but I'm still holding out for a higher wage too right now, we have a mortgage and want a new hou... 2006-06-16UTC09:36:15Pig farm to open in FarehamOne for my homies here Fareham nightclub Prague junction to be turned into a pig farm. Well possibly. The council keep rejecting plans to shut the club down and redevelop it as flats and offices as the land is earmark for a light rapid transit system... 2006-04-28UTC09:20:16Ticket to Ryewe are going to Rye on Saturday, for an afternoon / evening, a look round, drinks, dinner and that... Will make a nice change, and we're going by train, so can relax (ie get boozed up). On the way back because of the way the trains work out we either... 2005-11-28UTC10:12:48Rail workers set date for strikeWorkers at South Eastern Trains (SET) are to stage a one-day strike on Monday 5 December in protest at plans to reduce booking office staff, says the BBC, saw this on TV this morning too. This covers Folkestone and is all about not replacing ticket o... 2005-10-19UTC10:39:31BBC NEWS | UK | Magazine | Full steam aheadInvestment has been at record levels and high profile projects, such as the new dedicated fast line from Folkestone to London, and the inter-city track upgrade from London to Glasgow, are starting to come to fruition, says the BBC... quick, this succ... 2005-08-25UTC10:04:23Ancient sweets in (groan) mint conditionJars of sweets which are thought to be at least 45 years old have been discovered at a bus station in Folkestone, says the BBC... they're being shipped off to a museum in Battle, Sussex - why could they not be kept in Folkestone somewhere?Will we get... 2005-06-24UTC08:49:18Weather updateAre we going to miss these storms then? BBC says Folkestone will stay sunny today, though London should be thundery showers - it's damn hot and sunny now still though.BBC also says Glastonbury will be sunny and 21 degrees Centigrade all weekend, tho... 2005-06-14UTC09:08:12How Eurotunnel went so wrong"Before the first passenger car had boarded Le Shuttle for the short trip from Folkestone to Calais, the original business plan was in tatters" <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/4088868.stm">says BBC</a>...<br />2005-04-11UTC09:44:35Doctor Doctor pleaseI thought Doctor Who was great this week, a trip back in time to 1869 and Charles Dickens, as played by Simon Callow. We went to his one man show a few years back all about Dickens, funny to see that crossing over with the Doctor.www.scifi.com says B... 2005-04-08UTC08:55:07Tactical voting in FolkestoneAt least one Labour party member, David Finnitch, 70, from Folkestone, has been won over to the idea of tactical voting, because he says there is "no chance" of the party winning in his constituency - so he may as well try to get the sitting MP, Tory... 2005-03-31UTC10:03:54Christopher Ecclestone quits?So, the Sun says that Christopher Ecclestone has quit Doctor Who, maybe this means he's only going to do the series he's already filmed. WHO will be the next WHO then? I've said it before and I'll say it again, it should be Alan Davies. Gossip sugges... 2005-03-16UTC11:30:02Sandra Howard's car smashed upMrs Michael Howard's prized Fiat Panda has been vandalised at Westenhanger station, says the BBC. This is gutting for her, I know I was really pissed off when my car was done over. Hopefully because of her profile, this will be investigated properly,... 2005-02-24UTC12:10:51Phil VickeryThis article on www.thepublican.com says TV chef Phil Vickery is from Folkestone, and this BBC profile confirms it! He's not to be confused with the rugby player, he is a cooker, not a fighter.Interesting feature anyway, about Shepherds Neame. "The c... 2005-01-19UTC12:58:36Like Sherlock Holmes bumming Watson...Been meaning to write about this for a while, but keep forgetting... VERY exciting TV news, there's to be a new adaptation of Sherlock Holmes, starring Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie! Their take on Jeeves and Wooster was one of the best series ever to b... 2004-12-07UTC08:08:51It wasn't me!In this complete non story about The Darkness in Friday's Daily Mail it says "Audience member Paul Clarke was appalled. He said yesterday: 'Justin's snide remarks put a real dampener on the evening. They were totally unneccessary'.Darkness ticket sal... 2004-04-22UTC02:39:18David Devant and his Spirit WifeWell the gig was fantastic I'm very glad to report, a homecoming to Dingwalls (now called Lock 17 for some reason), the launchplace of their first album, was somehow appropriate. The place was packed, perhaps partly because of an enormous free guest... 2004-04-13UTC09:14:24GLC UpdateSaturday's Sun says Goldie Lookin' Chain are possibly developing their own BBC2 sitcom, with Jennifer Saunders, what's that all about..?The band also made Saturday's Guardian Guide too, anyone seen them past this week, or seeing them at the Mean Fid... 2004-04-13UTC09:01:05Hey hey we're the GLCVia groups.yahoo.com/group/chainmail: Saturday's Sun says Goldie Lookin' Chain are possibly developing their own BBC2 sitcom, with Jennifer Saunders, hmm... The band made Saturday's Guardian Guide too, though I didn't see that either... looking forwa... 2004-01-19UTC09:08:34Rail confusion and the curse of meDoing a bit more research into this rail lark, following a report from Ma and Pa today that a section of track between London and Folkestone is closing for a year, possibly a tunnel, and possibly near Strood... While surfing I found this BBC piece th... 2003-12-16UTC12:46:47Clissold Park RipperToday's Metro says a boy of 15 has been arrested in connection with the attack in Clissold Park, and another 24 year has also been arrested in connection, though the two chaps are not connected to each other, and the police believe the same person is... 2000-05-16UTC12:39:35Yeah Yeah Vote Helen LoveYou probably already knew that Helen Love are the coolest band in the world, and that is an FACT, even Joey Ramone says so, so get voting for them HERE on Steve Lamacq's Buzz Chart on the evening session...We will have some copies of Shifty Disco gi...