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Complaints about advertising A-boards in shopping areas causing difficulties for visually impaired people, wheelchair users and parents with pushchairs continue to come into us.

More than 30 shops across the district are set to be targeted in a crackdown on overbearing and garish shopfronts that are not sympathetic to local heritage and history and have been altered illegally.

The Lord Mayor of Canterbury, Cllr Anne Dekker, was joined by the Dean of Canterbury, the Very Rev’d Dr David Monteith, and Rabbi Cohen, to mark Holocaust Memorial Day today (Friday 27 January) by planting a silver birch tree in the Peace Garden in the Dane John Gardens.

Work has started on the district’s newest Changing Places facility, which is being installed at Herons Leisure Centre in Herne Bay.

Three local residents who do amazing work in the community to help others have been presented with Lord Mayor’s Awards.

An operation cracking down on unlicensed waste carriers and scrap collectors doing business within the Canterbury district resulted in two fines being issued to a trader.

Thank you to everyone in the district who chose to have their real Christmas tree recycled through the Pilgrims Hospice charity collection.

The delivery of new social housing across five districts in east Kent could be boosted by up to 25% in future years thanks to a successful bid for money to support an innovative partnership. 

Canterbury will benefit from £22 million in investment that will reboot its position as a global heritage destination and transform the city centre.

On Thursday 4 May this year there will be elections for all 39 city councillors and in some areas of the district, elections to parish councils.