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East APRIL 16 No Four editions delivered to over 88,000 homes every month downsmail.co.uk MaidstoneMaidstone EastEast EditionEdition Maidstone & Malling’s No. 1 newspaper FREE Maidstone Town | Maidstone East | Maidstone South | Malling April 2016 No. 228 News Hospital braves £15m Care home to shut THE best efforts of campaigners, including local MPs, have failed to prevent the closure of loss in opening year the Dorothy Lucy centre. 4 Election decision MAIDSTONE’S newest private hospital, the Kent Institute of Medicine KENT’S controversial police and and Surgery, made a £15m loss in its first year of operation. crime commissioner Ann Barnes will not restand. 5 Delays in signing up to the NHS was facing difficulties in November Their end-of-year report reveals “Choose and Book” service (now 2014 and brought in a new man- the original business plan was for known as eReferral) and the failure agement team to run the hospital. the hospital to generate high value, Southeastern delays of consultant surgeons to fully On its advice, the board was high complexity patient procedures RAIL commuters have been told commit to the ground-breaking forced to restructure or face run- but the initial take-up was lower to wait until late 2017 for new hospital, off M20 Junction 7 ning out of funds by December than anticipated. improvements. 18 near Weavering, meant income was 2015. This was partly due to the hospi- lower than anticipated, forcing the Measures implemented to pull tal missing the deadline to tender board to restructure and re-finance. Kims back from the brink included for NHS work and instead having Religious concern Accounts for the hospital, which the issue of new share capital, to rely on sporadic referrals. A PROPOSAL to rebuild a mosque opened in April 2014, reveal that al- which raised £7.8m and the con- “Uncertainty of NHS work in the town centre has though Kims had a turnover of version of £33.7m of loans into eq- streams led to the number of con- been criticised. 23 £8.76m in its first year, it ended the uity share capital. sultant surgeons fully transferring year with a shortfall of £15.22m. Founding directors Steven Bern- across to Kims being lower than ex- Existing lenders put an addi- stein, Franz Dickmann and his son pected, with a consequent impact Coffee chain fury tional £2m into the project, while a James Dickmann all resigned while on revenue,” it adds. A COSTA coffee shop in Bearsted four-year “rent holiday” was Peter Goddard was appointed ex- During the year, more than 1,600 has made a controversial granted under the property lease to ecutive chairman, Simon Rust fi- private and 1,200 NHS pa- first impression. 24 help ease cash flows. nance director and Simon James tients were treated at Kims, 6 Directors realised the hospital chief executive. but only 12% of the beds and Moving from Mote MAIDSTONE Mela will be held in the town centre for the 30 Carys makes light work of title first time, this September. A BARMING teenager lucky to be alive after being born severely pre- Friday is market day mature is targeting the Olympics A FARMERS’ market will take after winning a regional weightlift- place every month in ing title. Jubilee Square. 32 Carys Harper, 15, who attends St Augustine’s Academy in Maidstone, won the Lion Heart category at this Crime Reports 40 year’s Celebrate Maidstone awards A FRENCH bulldog was stolen for overcoming difficulties to from a garden in Bredhurst. achieve great things. Born 12 weeks premature and Comment 42-4346-47 weighing only 3lb, Carys – daughter of Zoe Reed and step-dad Chris – Obituaries 43 was initially unable to breathe with- out an incubator. Diagnosed with Parish Councils 54-55 dyscalculia, a brain disorder causing difficulty in making arithmetical AN arsonist was operating in calculations, she struggled at school Detling; complaints were dis- but with the help of Jayne Brad- cussed privately in Harrietsham; shaw, her mentor at St Augustine’s a dangerous metal fence was Academy, she refused to give up. present in Hollingbourne; rabbit- Her fighting spirit led her to take duced her to weightlifting and, in Schools Weightlifting Champi- proof fencing was to be erected in up kickboxing, receiving her junior just two years she has gone from be- onship in February 2015 and gold in Lenham; football noise from par- black belt in March 2013. ginner to competing at a national the 2015 London & SE ents and coaches was increasing in Otham; medals were marking Teacher Michael Blackford intro- level. Carys won silver in the British Junior Championships, 13 the Queen’s birthday in Ulcombe. 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Invicta Rowing Club have been showing the country that “Kent The impact of the June 23 refer- Girls Can”. endum on UK employment law is The club is supporting the KCC one of the topics being examined sporting initiative which is aimed at by Kent law firm Furley Page in getting more girls into sport. partnership with Kent Invicta Three eight-women crews were Chamber of Commerce. among those taking part in the re- They will be led by Andrew Mas- cent Hammersmith Head race on ters, partner and head of employ- the Thames – a shorter version of the ment at Furley Page, and Amanda Oxford and Cambridge boat race. Okill, an associate who specialises This was the first race on the The Junior Ladies crew with coach James Knight in employment law. Thames for many of Maidstone’s The workshops will be held at crews and a different experience Second in this category were the vited to row in a London RC crew. the Mercure Maidstone Great from the sheltered River Medway. 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