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Kent County Council members call on the government to scrap appalling council tax system | Updated: 16:50, 17 February 2021 The government has been urged to scrap the country s appalling council tax system by Kent county councillors. England s council tax rates have been based on the value of homes since April 1991, a year after the poll tax riots in the final term of Margaret Thatcher s tenure as Prime Minister. KCC leader Cllr Roger Gough (Con) Nearly 30 years on, Kent County Council s leader Roger Gough (Con) has described the way council tax is calculated as regressive and has vowed to write to Local Government Secretary Robert Jenrick calling for a shake-up to the eight-band system. ....
Anger after barrier blocks ambulance from reaching injured pensioner in Faversham town centre | Updated: 10:29, 15 February 2021 Paramedics took about 30 minutes to reach an elderly lady who had fallen over in Faversham town centre because access was blocked by a barrier. The obstruction has been ever-present in the town since Swale Borough Council and Kent County Council agreed to ban vehicle access in an effort to promote social distancing in the main shopping streets. The ambulance blocked from the town centre. Picture: Nathan Illiffe Responding to a call-out of a woman slipping on ice in West Street and injuring herself this morning, paramedics attempted to reach the victim in haste. ....