Summer Holiday Fun with Tunbridge Wells Museum & Art Gallery

Get out and about with your local museum and art gallery this summer and discover something special about our rich cultural heritage as well as our local surroundings.

Something for children…

If you have primary school aged children to entertain over the summer then bring them along to one of Tunbridge Wells Museum & Art . . . → Read More: Summer Holiday Fun with Tunbridge Wells Museum & Art Gallery

Local Elections – Results

Pembury (2 seats)

Mike Tompsett (Ind) 836 (26 per cent) ELECTED

Paul Barrington-King (Con) 736 (23 per cent) ELECTED

Lynn Hine (Con) 506 (15 per cent)

Colin Nicholson (UKIP) 505 (15 per cent)

Paul Beard (Lib Dems) 312 (10 per cent)

Margaret Morgan (Lab) 229 (seven per cent)

Isobel Kerrigan (Lab) 145 (four per cent)

Royal visit this month to commemorate the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee

Tunbridge Wells Borough Council is delighted to announce the visit of Their Royal Highnesses, The Earl and Countess of Wessex to Royal Tunbridge Wells on Thursday 31 May. The visit is being made on behalf of Her Majesty The Queen, in celebration of the Diamond Jubilee.

The public will have the chance to see the . . . → Read More: Royal visit this month to commemorate the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee

Borough Councillor for Pembury

On Friday 9 March, Mrs Claire Brown resigned, for personal reasons, from her post as Liberal Democrat councillor representing the ward of Pembury.

Mrs Brown said:

“Due to a change in personal circumstances, I no longer feel I can give the role the time and attention that it deserves – or that the people of . . . → Read More: Borough Councillor for Pembury

North Farm working group meets

On Friday 4 November the working group, set up to consider traffic issues at the North Farm Industrial Estate, met at the Town Hall, Royal Tunbridge Wells. Chaired by local MP, Greg Clark, the meeting was attended by representatives from the business community, Tunbridge Wells Borough Council and Kent County Council.

The meeting heard that short . . . → Read More: North Farm working group meets