by ed | Apr 23, 2021 | Analysis: behind the news
Last Tuesday I became a tourist. I didn’t pack bags and fly off in defiance of Covid regulations, but paid a visit to my own city, Canterbury, as a putative outsider. I wanted to find out what the place looked and felt like to someone arriving for the first time. I...
by ed | Mar 22, 2021 | Analysis: behind the news
by Richard Norman, Organiser, Canterbury Forum Working Group Most readers of Canterbury News will know that last year Canterbury City Council decided to abolish its Area Forums. Local people therefore decided to take things into their own hands and run the Forums...
by ed | Jan 25, 2021 | Analysis: behind the news
Dan Watkins is the Canterbury City Councillor with the main Climate Change brief. Now that the Council has approved his ‘Climate Action Plan’, what will it mean in practice? Why does it tackle just 2% of our emissions? Will it actually happen? Neasa MacErlean talks to...
by ed | Jan 13, 2021 | Analysis: behind the news
One person has done more than anyone else in the last four decades to discover and preserve the archaeology of Canterbury and the nearby area. Paul Bennett retired as Director of the Canterbury Archaeological Trust in late September 2020 — having presided over a...
by ed | Dec 29, 2020 | Analysis: behind the news
One of the country’s most famous organists and choir masters stands down from his post as Director of Music at Canterbury Cathedral this month. David Flood has been one of the greatest influences on the performance of sacred music in the country since he began pulling...
