Mar 31 2008
Walking around Wye, it would be so easy to grumble about this and that. The drink cans thrown without a care into the gutter. The crisp packets dropped onto the pavement, despite the many litter bins around our village. Sadly, this is not just a Wye problem, it’s a disease that has spread the world over. It is, however, very noticeable in our dear village that more and more people are picking litter up almost as second nature. Continue Reading »
Mar 31 2008
The latest Kentish Express (27 March) publishes an interesting response from the Chairman of Ashford Borough Council Planning Committee to some questions posed by readers about the round ‘bean can’ house and the Havillands development in general. A couple of weeks ago, the paper had published a couple of letters which expressed views and then went on to ask questions about the housing in
Havillands in Bramble Lane
Mar 28 2008
One of the reasons we have sought to reveal any ghostly tales in Wye – can we say ‘in’ for ghosts, I’m not sure- is simply that stories abound of apparitions in old places. Wye is certainly old, nobody will deny that, but both our ghost stories concern fairly recent times. We are expecting a correspondent to break that run but here we continue the theme with two stories of recent times. The first concerns Swan House in Bridge Street but the second occurred in a house built in the eighties. Continue Reading »
Mar 26 2008
New Scientist has recently reported that pioneering research is being done on the extraction of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere to convert it to hydrocarbon compounds. These compounds could be used as feedstock for production of fuels, plastics and other oil- derived materials. Continue Reading »
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