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DISPUTE RESOLUTION TEAM INCREASES PRESENCE IN CANTERBURY
Next year Whitehead Monckton celebrates their 5th anniversary of the opening of their new office in Canterbury. With the three offices across Kent in Maidstone and Tenterden as well as Canterbury, they’ re very well placed to help clients as their businesses prosper with the improved outlook for the economy.
David Riordan, associate solicitor in the expanding Dispute Resolution Team will be moving to the Canterbury office full time from November 2017. David previously worked in Canterbury before joining Whitehead Monckton in 2014 and is delighted to be returning to an area he knows so well. David specialises
in a range of business, personal and property-related disputes and is currently based at Whitehead Monckton’ s Maidstone head office in King Street.
Christopher Longden who is head of the Dispute Resolution Team at Whitehead Monckton commented:“ We’ re delighted David is moving to our Canterbury office. This is a great time for the firm; business continues to improve in all areas and our office in Canterbury is now well established in the City. Having David available to provide dispute resolution services for clients in Canterbury gives us that extra expertise, spread and capacity.”
SEVENOAKS SCHOOL STUDENTS CELEBRATE LOCAL RESIDENT’ S 101ST BIRTHDAY
Students from Sevenoaks School held a birthday party for local resident, Vicky Lutton, one of the members of the school’ s Thursday Club.
Vicky celebrated her landmark 101st birthday at the school with a specially baked cake, party food and presents. She belongs to a group of local elderly residents that attends the Thursday Club, held at the Sennocke boarding house at Sevenoaks School.
The Thursday Club is held weekly and is run by 11 students from Year 10 to Upper Sixth, who are participating in the school’ s Voluntary Service Unit’ s( VSU) community programme. As part of this, the students socialise and spend time with the residents and enjoy engaging in a range of activities together, which vary each week. Activities include, listening to music performed by students and sharing life experiences.
Vicky has been attending the club for a number of years and has previously celebrated her 99th and 100th birthdays with the students and other members of the club. Vicky said:“ We all thoroughly enjoyed it so very much and appreciate all the work involved with balloons, banners, birthday cake, cards, gifts, music and fun and fizz.”
Dr Gillian Williams, leader of the Voluntary Service Unit( VSU) at Sevenoaks School, says:“ Running the Thursday club is a wonderful opportunity to bring young and old together, to learn from each other. The intelligence, sensitivity and inspiration that our lovely visitors bring to the club has meant so much. Our students now have plenty of role models to look up to, and our elderly folk have a good reason to laugh( the students can certainly be hilarious!). Our group includes poets, painters, carers and many ladies who have travelled all over the world, with many stories to tell.”
PENSHURST PLACE SHORTLISTED FOR AWARD NUMBER TWO IN AS MANY WEEKS
Local favourite Kent landmark, Penshurst Place and Gardens, has been shortlisted for yet another two accolades. Having been recently announced in the shortlist for the Happy Family Award in the Visit Kent Tourism Awards, the historic house is now also in the running for two categories in the Kent Wedding Awards 2017 – Heritage Wedding Venue of the Year and overall best Wedding Venue.
The category winners and overall Kent Wedding Awards’ winners will be announced on 9th November. Visit Kent will announce the winners of the public vote for the Visit Kent Tourism Awards on 24th November.
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