With fuel prices soaring at the moment, it's looking like many people will need any extra help available with heating bills this Winter.

The Warm Home Discount is a government scheme which gives people receiving certain benefits a payment of £140 towards their winter electricity bills. It's paid for by energy suppliers.

Through the generosity of those who either bought from the stall or 'Went up the Tower' at Ullyett Cottage during the Sandgate Safari Sale, Sabina now has a new dress.

With the funds raised Commat (the Commonwealth Medical Trust) was able to buy a treadle sewing machine for the women in the remote village of Nkuringo, in Western Uganda and they have since been busy learning how to use it. They have made skirts for themselves and clothes for their children, and will now start making school uniforms for young children which can then be sold.

Each year, Folkestone and Hythe District Councillors get £3,000 of grant funding that they can use to support organisations, activities and projects that benefit the area.

One of the events that I backed with grant funding this year was the Folkestone Channel Triathlon, which went ahead in September.

Overnight closures of part of A259 Dymchurch Road, Hythe are planned from Tuesday 28 September 2021 for up 4 nights, from 8.00 pm through until approximately 5.00 am each night.

A259 Dymchurch Road will be closed between the junctions with Botolph's Bridge Road and Redoubt Way, to the actual extent shown at any time.

It will be necessary to close various roads in The Leas area of Folkestone to allow the Cancer Research UK Race for Life event.

The following roads will be closed to through traffic between 10:30 and 14:00:

• Cliff Road
• Dixwell Road
• Metropole Road West
• Metropole Road East
• The Leas (between the junctions with Metropole Road and Earls Avenue)
• Clifton Gardens