Collated by Helen Fisher HIGHLIGHTS FAVERSHAM LITERARY FESTIVAL The opening night features Ned Palmer hosting A Cheesemonger’s History of the British Isles a...

For this instalment of Tastes of Faversham we rounded up some hungry locals to spend a cold November evening sampling a selection of the town’s bangers. We s...

Swale Borough Council has come under fire from Faversham traders for not allowing free town centre parking in the run up to Christmas. Free parking for Chris...

The Faversham Eye is, and will always remain, freely available to all in the town. It’s a community paper, funded by Brian Pain and produced with the help of...

It's almost a year since we started the Eye with the hope of creating the sort of local newspaper we would like to read ourselves. We wanted to properly inve...

By Richard Fleury No matter how we voted, we all have one thing in common: relief that the 2019 General Election is over. But there is no “going back to norm...

By Brian Pain Photo by Alex Law On the morning of Monday, 9 December, the huge crane was finally in place and due to lift the swing bridge at 11am. The plan w...

Do you have any questions for our councillors? ‘Ask a Councillor’ aims to help you get answers on the issues you care about, from road safety to housing, fro...

The rash of bijou residences on the Western Link Road built by Bovine construction has been complimented by an equally bijou roundabout constructed to serve ...

Faversham was listed as one of 15 picturesque UK towns for a pre-Christmas break on the Guardian newspaper on Saturday 7 December. The story coincided nicely...

Anyone who has been in the Post Office in the last few weeks can see the impact of the recent privatisation for themselves. There are long queues at the coun...

Death Cafés happen across the world. The idea of Jon Underwood and Sue Barksky Reid (www.deathcafe.com), they are free, always include tea and cake and give ...

On 9 December Faverham Town Council resolved to pursue two options for the ground floor of No 12 Market Place whilst keeping the first floor for the council ...

Leading Tories and Bramley Avenue residents have called for the sacking of a grotto Santa after he allegedly told children that Helen Whately didn’t exist. R...

This striking sculpture of three wretched lions on the shores of the English Channel is the work of Faversham-based Jason deCaires Taylor. Called ‘The Pride ...

CHRISTMAS PUZZLE Here is a tough puzzle for Christmas. It is a cipher, meaning one letter of the code stands for one letter of text. The cipher system used i...

LOUNGE LEZARD Faversham was recently visited by writer Nick Lezard, whose work often chronicles his experiences as an impecunious middle-class drifter and un...

Words by Richard Fleury Photos by Pete Smith and Lucy Wood Overshadowed by the grand Thames sailing barges, boxy houseboats, and expensive pleasure yachts mo...

Reprehensible that’s what you are, Indefensible you’ve gone too far. Boris dear, if you’re a feminist, Jacob Rees Mogg is a Leninist And Stevie Wonder drives...

Before we brought out our election special, Helen Whately asked us to pull the issue as we had described her new seven bedroom house, with swimming pool, ext...