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, 2020
- 4 min
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, 2020
- 3 min
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, 2020
- 3 min
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, 2020
- 6 min
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, 2020
- 8 min
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, 2020
- 4 min
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, 2020
- 24 min
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, 2020
- 1 min
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, 2020
- 1 min
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, 2020
- 4 min
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, 2020
- 7 min
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, 2020
- 4 min
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, 2020
- 3 min
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, 2020
- 6 min
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, 2020
- 2 min
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, 2020
- 3 min
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, 2020
- 1 min
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, 2020
- 2 min
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, 2020
- 3 min
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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