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Kemsing Singers
Read about their upcoming concert events in a Kemsing Singer's post to the new Sevenoaks Community Forum [www.sevenoaksforum.com]

Here you can announce news, discuss topics, tell a joke, etc to the whole community. You do need to register before posting entries, but then your news or discussion topic is online immediately, as posted. You can include links to websites, upload documents, pdf's, style the post with colour, font changes, etc and make use of the Sevenoaks Forum facilities to have regular e-mail notification as new entries are made.

With your help the Sevenoaks Community Forum can be an informative and interactive addition to the very popular What's On Calendar database that now provides the most comprehensive listing of events happening in Sevenoaks and the surrounding towns and villages. You can post your own event too.

SEVENOAKS DISTRICT COUNCIL
Stag transfer agreed
Sevenoaks District Council last night (Tuesday 11 November 2008) agreed to transfer the Stag arts complex to Sevenoaks Town Council as part of a long term lease agreement.

After Kino Holdings Ltd ceased operation of the Stag on 8 July 2008, the District Council received two proposals from local authorities, one from Kent County Council and the other from Sevenoaks Town Council, to operate the facility. On 28 August, the District Council agreed a set of criteria to assess the two proposals and gave the councils until the end of September to submit detailed plans to operate the Stag.

Following careful evaluation of the proposals, Full Council decided to hand over the Stag to Sevenoaks Town Council on a 25 year lease. Initially Sevenoaks District Council will enter into a short term lease allowing the Stag to open early in the new year. The long term lease will be agreed thereafter. [more]

VINE MAGAZINE
Vine - November 2008
Vine Magazine for November 2008 is now available online in 'page turning' digital format.

BBC KENT
'Ross and Brand' to be set alight
A twin effigy of Jonathan Ross and Russell Brand will be set on fire as part of a Kent bonfire society's Guy Fawkes celebrations.

The celebrity guy depicts Ross clutching a BBC contract in his right hand and holding a dog with Brand's head under his left arm.

Brand resigned from Radio 2 and Ross was suspended after making lewd prank calls to actor Andrew Sachs.

Edenbridge Bonfire Society will burn the effigy in Edenbridge on Saturday. [more]

BBC KENT
Rapist jailed after 1995 attack
A man has been jailed for eight-and-a-half years for raping a woman at a railway station in Kent 13 years ago.

Jason Clark, 37, of Mount Pleasant Road, Dartford, pleaded guilty at Maidstone Crown Court to attacking the woman, who was 27 at the time.

Sentencing him, Judge Michael Lawson QC said Clark had destroyed the life of a "decent young woman".

Clark was arrested over the attack in Otford railway station car park after advances in DNA technology. [more]