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The Kentish Express was founded in 1855 as the Ashford and Alfred News by Henry Igglesden. The first edition was published on 14 July 1855. [2] [3] The paper was Kent's first penny paper after the abolition of stamp duty on newspapers in 1854. [4] Three years later, the paper was renamed the Kentish Express & Ashford News. [5]
The Silver Spring Mineral Water Company was founded in Folkestone in 1888 as a carbonated soft drinks manufacturer. [1] Originally located at Grace Hill, Folkestone, towards the end of the 1890s the company expanded and moved to larger premises in Foord Rd. [1] In 1946 Silver Spring bought and merged with another local firm, the Harris of Hythe Company. [1]
The other is Folkestone Herald (published by Kent Regional News and Media, part of the Local World group). There is also a monthly paid magazine Folkestone, Hythe & Romney Life. Free newspapers for the town include the Folkestone and Hythe Extra, part of the KM Group; and yourshepway, part of KOS Media.
FirstEnergy Corp. reported that nearly 1,200 customers were without power on Ravenna's north side and more than 600 at Kent's south end as of about 3 p.m. Monday.
If you couldn’t put down Jeneva Rose’s 2020 thriller The Perfect Marriage, buckle up for the twisty sequel. The bestselling author announced that she will be releasing a sequel to the BookTok ...
In 2017, KM Media Group launched KMTV in partnership with the University of Kent. [9] KMTV is Kent's only dedicated TV channel, broadcasting a range of current affairs and news programming, including its week-nightly news show, Kent Tonight [10]. It is part of the Local Television Network and regulated by Ofcom. [11]
The Leas Lift is a grade II* listed funicular railway that carries passengers between the seafront and the promenade in Folkestone, Kent. Originally installed in 1885, it is one of the oldest water lifts in the UK. [1] [2] The lift operates using water and gravity and is controlled from a small cabin at the top of the cliff. [3]
Other common names for it include "clear sight", "spin window", "Kent Screen" and "rotating windshield wiper". Clear view screens were patented in 1917 by Samuel Augustine de Normanville and Leslie Harcourt Kent as a stand-alone pillar-mounted screen, [ 1 ] with later patents for telescope and optics covers, followed by the more familiar ships ...