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Maidstone and the Weald
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Recent News For Maidstone
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Article: Jun 17, 2013Maidstone celebrated encouraging news for young people on Saturday when it was announced that 1,600 young people in our borough have been accepted onto apprenticeships in the last year.
Local Liberal Democrats held a street stall in Week Street to thank young people and Maidstone businesses for making such a success of the Lib Dem scheme, whereby the government subsidies the cost of hiring apprentices.
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Article: Jun 14, 2013
Together we can Protect our Town, Villages and CountrysideWe are seeking to enlist residents in a campaign to protect our beautiful Borough and ensure that new housing and employment developments are built in sustainable locations.
To this end we are asking citizens to identify those special places across our town, villages and countryside that requires policy protection in Maidstone's evolving Local Plan development blue-print.
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Article: Jun 11, 2013A local campaign to save the bluebell wood off Hermitage Lane received a double-boost this week. First the petition reached a thousand names to prevent a road and extra housing being driven through the wood, some of which can be traced back since the end of the ice age. Then Stephen Lloyd, Lib Dem MP for Eastbourne, joined local campaigners at the site to show his support.
