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The Folkestone Harbour and Seafront Development Company is promoting regeneration schemes for the area. [4] The Roger De Haan Charitable Trust [5] was established in 1978, offering charitable support to a variety of charities and community organisations, mostly in the area around Folkestone and south east Kent.
Whistling houses, angry locals and one of the UK’s richest men: How Folkestone’s plan to be Shoreditch-on-Sea turned sour. ... Folkestone’s revival is the brainchild of Sir Roger De Haan ...
They took Sir Roger prisoner and they sailed for London Town, Where in the Tow'r they laid him, as a traitor to the Crown. Said he, 'I am no traitor,' but his trial he had to stand, for bringing German rifles to lonely Banna Strand. 'Twas in an English prison that they led him to his death. 'I'm dying for my country dear,' he said with his last ...
Controversial plans to transform a Kent seafront town have been turned down. Spearheaded by multi-millionaire Sir Roger De Haan, the huge revamp of Folkestone Harbour would have seen hundreds of ...
The Roger De Haan Charitable Trust provided £50 million to acquire and repair, refurbish and/or rebuild nearly 90 buildings in Folkestone that were previously in a state of serious disrepair or derelict. [4] Sir Roger sold the Saga Group for £1.35 billion in 2004, and acquired Folkestone Harbour for £11 million the same year.
Tan Kheng Ann (1965) mastermind of the Pulau Senang prison riots, which led to four murders of prison officers and the subsequent executions of Tan and 17 other rioters; Teo Boon Ann (1990) Teo Kim Hong (1996) Steven Ray Thacker (2013) John Thanos (1994) first post-Gregg execution in Maryland; Edith Thompson (1923) Thomas Martin Thompson (1998 ...
All subsequent death sentences in Ireland, the last handed down in 1985, were commuted by the President, on the advice of the Government, to terms of imprisonment of up to 40 years. The Twenty-first Amendment to the constitution, passed by referendum in 2001, prohibits the reintroduction of the death penalty, even during a state of emergency or ...
Longest serving death row inmate in Georgia. [159] Sentenced to death for kidnapping, raping and murdering an 8-year-old girl. [160] [161] Richard Gerald Jordan: March 2, 1977 ongoing 48 years, 7 days United States: Sentenced to death for the abduction and murder of a woman in Mississippi. Jordan is Mississippi's longest serving death row ...