Welcome to Issue Nine:
Because it takes more than the biggest global crisis in a century to stop the Faversham Eye. In just a few brief months, Coronavirus has...
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Apr 25, 20204 min read
TREE PLANTING
By Frances Beaumont Before we all went into lockdown many groups got out their gardening tools and started tree planting, rewilding and...
Apr 25, 20203 min read
POST OFFICE UPDATE
By Richard Belfield The Faversham Post Office shut yet again this month “until further notice.”. According to the notice in the window...
Apr 25, 20203 min read
FOCUS ON PHOTOGRAPHY - PETER SMITH
Peter started his career in the late 1970’s after training at Canterbury and Folkestone Art Colleges. He worked straightaway with...
Apr 24, 20206 min read
Jacqueline HITCHCOCK
By Nathalie Banaigs Each town has its individual characters, those who leave their mark in people’s memories. Faversham has a few and...
Apr 24, 20208 min read
CLEVE HILL UPDATE - 3
By Richard Belfield The behaviour of the planning inspectors in the Cleve Hill solar farm inquiry gets more bizarre by the day. There has...
Apr 24, 20204 min read
FAVERSHAM'S SHODDY HOUSES - WHY ARE THEY BEING BUILT SO BADLY?
As we are all painfully aware, Faversham is suffering a flood of new housing developments which threaten the character and identity of...
Apr 24, 202024 min read
COVID 19 - THE TIMELINE OF A PANDEMIC
By Richard Fleury The whole world will remember 2020 as the year of coronavirus. In Faversham, as elsewhere, the outbreak has caused the...
Apr 24, 20201 min read
SWALE NEWS
It is good to see the front page of Inside Swale (our borough council’s quarterly newsletter) is devoted to a picture of Standard Quay...
Apr 24, 20201 min read
EMPTYSTREETS - A TOWN IN LOCKDOWN
Words and images by: Nathalie Banaigs Walking through the streets of Faversham between 29 March and the 9 April 2020, I saw a town...
Apr 24, 20204 min read
CORONAVIRUS: HOW SAFE IS OUR FOOD SUPPLY?
Words by Richard Fleury A fortnight after a senior Government's adviser argued the UK does not need a farming industry, many British...
Apr 24, 20207 min read
ABBEY SCHOOL - LIVING IN LOCKDOWN
Words by Ruby Bishop As the coronavirus outbreak surged, Britain's schools closed their doors to most pupils from Friday, March 20, with...
Apr 24, 20204 min read
FAVERSHAM FARMS APPEAL FOR LOCAL WORKERS
In the last issue of the Eye, we highlighted how Faversham's farmers faced disastrous labour shortages this season as EU workers stay...
Apr 24, 20203 min read
ARTS AND CULTURE – WHAT’S ONLINE
Collated by: Nathalie Banaigs A SELECTION OF WHAT'S ON OFFER Classic Concerts at the Assembly Rooms usually take place on Saturdays at...
Apr 24, 20206 min read
FAVERSHAM MP AND MINISTER FOR CARE HELEN WHATELY - A MINISTER FIT FOR PURPOSE?
Words by Richard Fleury On the day of her long-awaited appointment to health minister, Helen Whately was in high spirits. After receiving...
Apr 24, 20202 min read
INCOMING - from Issue 9
In response to our Faversham Town Council Expenditure Plans 2020-2021 - The Faversham Eye view, we had the following comments: How does a...
Apr 24, 20203 min read
FOREIGN NEWS
As part of the Faversham Eye’s plans for total global media domination, in coming issues we will gradually roll out extended coverage of...
Apr 24, 20201 min read
C-19 NHS/HEALTH RESOURCES
GP SURGERIES Newton Place Surgery is the Primary Care Assessment Centre for Faversham. This means that the normal primary care needs of...
Apr 24, 20202 min read
C-19 SUPPORT GROUPS AND ADVICE
Collated by: Helen Renny C-19 Support groups/advice Covid-19 Mutual Aid Faversham – is a volunteer group in Faversham offering support to...
Apr 24, 20203 min read
ON THE SQUARE - Issue 9
"I HATE YOU"– BUTLER We recently received this delightful Facebook message from a charming and thoughtful fellow calling himself 'Gary...
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