a day ago2 minIssue 9 UpdateDear Readers, We hope you are all safe and well in these difficult times. To do our bit keeping everyone informed during the Coronavirus lockdown, we are bus...
Mar 202 minPUBLIC INFORMATION BULLETIN ON COVID-19 PROCEDURES FOR FAVERSHAM FOODBANK Faversham Foodbank is here to help people in emergency situations who cannot afford to buy food. We are committed to remaining open to our clients for as lon...
Feb 298 minBENSTED'S - CHARITY BEGINS AT HOMEBy Richard Belfield Bensted’s is an unusual local charity. On first glance, it looks more like an investment trust. According to their 2018 accounts, which a...
Feb 298 minABBEY SCHOOL - A NEW SYSTEM OF SCHOOL RULESWords by Ruby Bishop Ruby Bishop is studying for her GCSEs at Faversham's Abbey School, which last year surprised pupils and parents by introducing a controv...
Feb 2913 minFuture Health Secretary HELEN WHATELY and the firm that hijacked the NHSWords by Richard Fleury Cartoon from Martin Rowson Back in 2008, Tatler magazine treated ten fresh-faced young twenty and thirty-somethings to an 'A-list mak...
Feb 299 minFAVERSHAM'S FARM WORKERSWords by Richard Fleury Pictures courtesy of Edward Vinson Ltd For Faversham farmers, the price of getting Brexit done is losing the thousands of hard-workin...
Feb 2914 minLITERARY FESTIVAL - REVIEWSWith an incredible array of talent and some seriously big names, this year's line-up took the Faversham Literary Festival to another level. It was a runaway ...
Dec 21, 20193 minWelcome to the Faversham Eye's first Christmas Issue.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...
Dec 21, 20193 minCreek Update: Update on the Town Jetty and the Lifting of the BridgeBy 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...
Dec 11, 20198 minFaversham Poverty StoryBy Richard Fleury With additional reporting by Nancy Brand It is worth remembering, as we sit down to watch A Christmas Carol or Oliver! with a bellyful of m...
Dec 6, 20192 minELECTION SPECIALWelcome to our Faversham Eye Election Special. We are preparing a full Christmas issue to come out on Saturday, December 21 but when the snap General Electio...
Dec 6, 20191 minFaversham Eye - Xmas AppealThe Faversham Eye Christmas Special issue is out on Saturday, December 21 and we’ll be handing out copies in the Market Place as usual. As always, the paper w...
Dec 4, 20191 minElection Special - Candidate GuideWe asked the Faversham and Mid Kent parliamentary candidates from all four main parties for interviews in the run up to next week's general election: Conserv...
Oct 19, 20194 minCleve Hill: A Small Problem of InsuranceBy Richard Belfield It may well be impossible to insure the Cleve Hill solar farm – that’s the view of insurance industry veterans approached by the Faversha...
Oct 19, 20192 minCleve Hill: A Possible Conflict of InterestBy Richard Belfield Right at the start of the public enquiry into the Cleve Hill solar farm, Sir David Melville from the Faversham Society and Richard Knox-J...
Oct 19, 201910 minCleve Hill - The Continuing StoryBy Richard Fleury The world’s biggest battery – and the danger to Faversham – just doubled in size. In the last issue, we reported on the threat to life pose...
Sep 7, 20191 minFaversham Eye Funding UpdateNews about how the Faversham Eye will be funded in the future.
Sep 7, 201912 minCleve Hill – Batteries Included?Of all the reasons to object to a solar power station at Graveney, the giant battery at its heart is by far the most worrying.
Sep 7, 20194 minLewisham Housing Rumour DebunkedFaversham Eye puts to rest rumours of u hear the rumour about the London Borough of Lewisham buying up homes in Faversham.