May 81 minREQUEST FOR DONATIONS OR SUBSCRIPTIONSThe Faversham Eye is, and will remain, freely available to all in the town. It is an independent community newspaper, funded by Brian Pai...
Apr 252 minWelcome 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 ...
Apr 244 minFAVERSHAM'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 th...
Apr 2424 minCOVID 19 - THE TIMELINE OF A PANDEMICBy Richard Fleury The whole world will remember 2020 as the year of coronavirus. In Faversham, as elsewhere, the outbreak has caused the ...
Apr 244 minFAVERSHAM FARMS APPEAL FOR LOCAL WORKERSIn the last issue of the Eye, we highlighted how Faversham's farmers faced disastrous labour shortages this season as EU workers stay awa...
Apr 1110 minC-19 Support your local businessesCompiled by Helen Renny with help from INFaversham and Faversham deliveries and Takeaway Many local businesses are going to struggle to s...
Mar 292 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 ...
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 ou...
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 20...
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 i...
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-somethin...
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 thou...
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 leve...
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 wan...
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 bridg...
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! w...
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 ...
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. A...
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 gener...
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 approa...