Dartford council and Kent Equality Cohesion Council hold virtual service for Holocaust Memorial Day
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Updated: 10:07, 29 January 2021
A virtual service was held to mark Holocaust Memorial Day and encourage everyone to reflect on the depths humanity can sink to.
It was organised by the Kent Equality Cohesion Council and Cohesion Plus in partnership with Dartford council.
Kent Holocaust Memorial Day Event 2021. Video: Kent Equality Cohesion Council
Civic, community and faith partners came together to remember the millions of people murdered during the Holocaust, under Nazi persecution and in the genocides which followed in Cambodia, Rwanda, Bosnia and Darfur.
The theme for Holocaust Memorial Day this year was Be the light in the Darkness to encourage everyone to reflect on the depths humanity can sink to, but also the ways individuals and communities have resisted that darkness to âbe the lightâ before, during, and after genocide.
Organisers of Kent & Medway Business Summit 2021 declare event, staged on Remo, a success
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Updated: 16:38, 20 January 2021
It s normally a must-attend business networking event at the University of Kent s Canterbury campus - but this year things were a little different for the Kent and Medway Business Summit as the event switched online.
But the remote event didn t stop more than 300 delegates attending the event for five hours of networking and expert comment.
The IoD s Roger Barker during the event
Organised by the university in partnership with the Federation of Small Businesses, Institute of Directors and Locate in Kent, the digital event brought together key policy makers with businesses large and small to create and share a vision for the region.
Temporary morgue set up in Aylesford to relieve pressure on hospital mortuaries as Covid-19 deaths rise
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Updated: 17:01, 11 January 2021
Bodies are now being stored at a temporary morgue in Kent as the Covid-19 death toll rises and space runs out in existing mortuaries.
Kent Council Council built the mortuary at the back of its former county workshops in Beddow Way, Aylesford in April, during the first wave of the pandemic, but has confirmed it has been put into use from New Year s Day when the first body was stored there.
A temporary morgue that has been built in Aylesford, just off Beddow Way Picture: Barry Goodwin
Leader of Kent County Council urges government to keep schools closed in Thanet, Canterbury, Dover and Folkestone and Hythe
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Updated: 14:33, 03 January 2021
The leader of Kent County Council has called on the Government to keep schools closed in Thanet, Canterbury, Dover and Folkestone and Hythe.
Cllr Roger Gough (Con) wrote to Education Secretary Gavin Williamson yesterday, urging him to allow primary schools to remain shut.
KCC leader Roger Gough takes a Covid test at Sheerness East WMC, Halfway. Picture: John Nurden
He tweeted to say he had supported Kent schools in staying open.
But he added: Yet most schools in #Kent will under government rules have a delayed start; the public health justification for treating 4 Districts (with still high infection rates) differently does not stack up.
The schools that will stay closed from tomorrow
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A number of Kent primary schools will remain closed tomorrow, defying government advice.
Ignoring the Prime Minister s claim that schools are safe , some headteachers have decided to keep the majority of pupils home despite being expected back in the morning for the start of term.
Hampton Primary School. Picture: Barry Duffield
The affected areas are Dartford, Gravesham, Sevenoaks, Medway, Ashford, Maidstone, Tonbridge and Malling, Tunbridge Wells, Swale, Bexley and Bromley.
But schools in
Thanet, Dover, Folkestone and Hythe and Canterbury districts were all allowed to re-open.
But now, some leaders in those areas have chosen to stay closed to all except for key worker and vulnerable children.