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Tag: thanet district council

Jane remembers 2016

January 9, 2017 janewj

At midnight on 31st December I was travelling by car through the bottom of Broadstairs.  In Ramsgate, minutes earlier, they’d been spilling out of pubs,

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Plain Jane 071016: No selling to someone’s mate who then makes a DIY killing

October 9, 2016 janewj

This might not be desperately interesting to those living outside Thanet but council sell-offs could affect wherever you are too. Especially if you’re ever unlucky

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Plain Jane 190816: Council organises ‘how to wear scarves’ class

August 18, 2016 janewj

Poor old Northamptonshire County Council has come under fire for putting on a course entitled How to Tie a Scarf. The three-hour session – a

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Plain Jane 110316: We don’t want a new town

March 12, 2016 janewj

“We’re almost there–” proclaims the latest shrink-wrapped brochure from Stone Hill Park, above a photo of children hopping, somewhat bizarrely, in sacks, through fields of

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Plain Jane 310715: Time for a brew

August 2, 2015 janewj

DEPRESSED by pub closures and the rise of alcopops? Good news is at hand. Sales of the cheap-booze-and-coloured-sugar drinks favoured by overgrown children are falling.

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Plain Jane 170715: I can be as judgemental as the next person

July 22, 2015 janewj

My esteemed colleague, Mike don’t-get-me-started Pearce, has been on one of his jaunts. I don’t ask for details – they invariably involve pinball machines, model

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Plain Jane 030715: Mike and Jane – Thrills at Dreamland

July 7, 2015 janewj

I didn’t see the rides at the opening of Dreamland. The wait was too long, the speeches too protracted and when the ribbon had finally

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Plain Jane 190615: Eating your way through hotel breakfasts

June 22, 2015 janewj

SO FAR this year, what with speaking and interviewing and literary festivals and running off to bang my head against a different wall, I have

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Plain Jane 050615: It’s tough to get a job if you don’t speak nonsense lingo

June 5, 2015 janewj

I HAVE been self-employed now for nigh-on 30 years and have long suspected this has rendered me utterly un-hireable to anyone in the usual (some

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Plain Jane 220515 – A chilly reception

May 24, 2015 janewj

OH DEAR! It seems I haven’t got off to the best possible start with our new Kipper council. Let’s hope I don’t require a new

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Plain Jane 100415: Plain Jane meets the Tories and Manston Airport Independent Party

April 10, 2015 janewj

I interview the Tory hopefuls by adopting police tactics. Sir Roger Gale has been in politics for half a century and the MP for Thanet

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Plain Jane 030415: Plain Jane meets the Labour and United Thanet candidates

April 3, 2015 janewj

Continuing our series in which Jane Wenham-Jones meets the candidates, this week: Labour… THERE is a framed cartoon by Giles on my writing-room wall that

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Plain Jane 270315: Meet the candidates for the Green Party

March 28, 2015 janewj

Continuing our series in which Jane Wenham-Jones meets the candidates, this week: the Greens… I was initially invited to visit the Green candidate for Thanet

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Plain Jane 130614: Is Thanet really only known for the shipping forecast?

June 15, 2014 janewj

Plain Jane: Is Thanet really only known for the shipping forecast? As regular readers will know, I am an ardent proponent of this fair isle as the

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Plain Jane 300514: My view on term-time holidays

May 31, 2014 janewj

RECENT figures have shown that 24,000 children each day are taken out of school for a family trip. If I still did the school-run, it

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Plain Jane 160514: So here’s to you Iris, best of luck with Thanet council

May 16, 2014 janewj

So another shake-up for our beleaguered local government. In-fighting and power struggles down at Cecil Street are nothing new, of course, but I am genuinely sorry

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Plain Jane 271213: My review of the people and places of 2013

December 28, 2013 janewj

Regular readers of this column (God help you) will know that my final offering of the year has historically been a round-up of my top

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Plain Jane, Isle of Thanet Gazette 07 June 2013: Council double-speak hides another waste of money

June 7, 2013 janewj

And now I AM on the new website… hurrah! But here is my latest Plain Jane for those who’ve got used to reading it here… And Happy

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*Columnist of the Year*

Very thrilled with my #KPBA Kent Columnist of the Year Award for my #lockdowndiary column in The Isle of Thanet News.

The jury: “Jane’s lockdown diary was head and shoulders above the other entries and at a time when we were all left floundering, it was something really powerful to latch on to.”

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