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 Notes of 2024

 

From the East Kent Mercury, 22 August, 2024.

Triple dose of Wunder coming to Folkestone harbour.

LEDERHOSEN and Tyrolean hats at the ready - after an incredibly successful inaugural first year in 2023, Folkestone Harbour is proud to announce that it is bringing back Wunder Harbour, its own twist on the much-loved Bavarian holiday that promises to be a celebration of steins, sausages, and sing-alongs.

Folkestone Wunder

This year will see an expanded series of Wunder Harbour events, with the harbour hosting three weekends of this Bavarian smorgasbord of activities, food and drink - September 21 and 22, September 28 and 29, and October 5 and 6.

As well as featuring the return of the much-loved Bettesteiner Footstompers Oompah Band, Wunder Harbour 2024 will also see independent traders from across the site occupy the Goods Yard, offering a Germanic twist on much loved menu items.

One-off activities to help bring the Bavarian spirit to life are also planned.

A unique spin on this well-known annual Germanic festival of food, beer and fun times, Wunder Harbour will be completely free to
enter.

A host of mouthwatering Bavarian-style food will be served up, alongside speciality brews, steins of Bavarian beers, one-off authentic specials, and much more.

Folkestone Harbour & Seafront Development Company general manager Paulo Kingston-Corriea said: "Wunder Harbour was new to our events line-up in 2023, and it proved to be a massive hit.

"It’s a great fun way to bring people together with our own unique twist on a well-known Bavarian holiday and kick off the autumn and winter events season down here at Folkestone Harbour.”

 

From the Dover Express, 16 May 2024.

Drink-driver crashed into police car.

A HYTHE woman who drove into the back of a police car while three times over the drink drive limit has been banned from the road.

Officers were sat in a police car at the scene of a broken-down vehicle on the A1307 between Spittals and Alconbury in Cambridge at about 10.30pm on March 28, when a Volkswagen Polo drove through the coned closure and ploughed into the back of them.

The driver, Louise Rowlands, 54, of Seabrook Vale, Hythe admitted to drink driving and registered a reading of 109 on a roadside breath test. This is three times the legal limit of 35 microgrammes per 100 millilitres of breath. She went on to provide an evidential reading of 96 in custody. At Folkestone Magistrates' Court on Wednesday, May 1, Rowlands was disqualified from driving for 23 months after pleading guilty to drink driving and driving without due care and attention. She must also carry out 40 hours unpaid work.

PC Jemma Russell, who investigated, said: "The officers were at the scene assisting a member of the public who had broken down. They were in a marked police car with all emergency lights and the matrix board activated. There were also blue lights illuminating the coned closure.

“It is sheer luck that Rowlands didn't seriously injure one of the officers at the scene, the recovery agent dealing with the earlier broken down car or even herself. This incident demonstrates the danger drink drivers can present when they get behind the wheel of a car. We urge anyone who knows a drink driver to report it to us.”

 

 
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