Students and staff from the Hundred of Hoo School will once again be showing their support for the armed services by undertaking the third a...

The November edition of the High Halstow Times is now available. Just click on the image below to see the full copy. This month’s edition...

That’s the subject of a talk that will be given by John Vigar on Monday 14 November at Cooling Village Hall, at 7pm. The event will follow...

If you fancy localising the Christmas cards you send this year, with festive images of Rochester, then look no further! Local artist Chris N...

Following a post  on this site in September, about the unpleasant smell coming from Chatham Docks and sweeping across Hoo, Peel Ports have n...

With all the talk of an airport on the Isle of Grain this week, and the possible ramifications for those of us living on the Peninsula, it i...

The Hoo Village Christmas Fayre will be taking place on Saturday 10 December in Hoo Village Square. And there’s still time to become a stall...

The November edition of Allhallows Life is now available. Just click on the image below to see the full copy. This month’s edition includ...

I was really pleased to be invited along to join the judging panel for the High Halstow Annual Photographic Competition the other evening. ...

Many thanks to Michael Dale, a Parish Councillor at St. James Isle of Grain, who recently sent me a copy of an old newspaper article (pictur...

A couple of walking dates for your diary . . . November Walk On Sunday 13 November the High Halstow Hikers will be walking along the Med...

I know it’s only October, but I thought I’d mention that details of Christmas events taking place here on the Hoo Peninsula will be added to...

Land Securities have arranged a final exhibition before submitting an outline planning application to Medway Council. The exhibition will be...

Advanced notice about Hoo’s Christmas Fayre - this year taking place on Saturday 10 December in the Village Square. I’ve no doubt this will ...

There’s still time to cast your vote for the UJ Community Partnership, from the Isle of Grain, in the Natwest Bank CommunityForce award sche...

The October edition of the RSPB’s newsletter for the North Kent area, ‘On the Marshes’, is out now - just click the image below to download ...

The 2011 Kent Village of the Year awards were presented at a ceremony in Dunkirk last week - the Dunkirk near Canterbury that is! It is gr...

Medway Neighbourhood Watch is keen to hear from anyone interested in helping to set up new schemes here on the Hoo Peninsula. If you'd l...

Voting has now opened in NatWest’s 2011 CommunityForce awards programme. The scheme gives hundreds of community projects and charities the c...

Last Friday morning I joined a good many other local residents at the Memorial Hall in High Halstow, for the Macmillan Cancer Support 'W...

The record has been broken for the highest temperature recorded in October, at 29.9c (85.8f) in Gravesend at 2.42pm this afternoon. This b...

The latest edition of the High Halstow Times is now available. Just click the image below to see the full copy. The High Halstow Times is...

The October edition of Allhallows Life is now available. Just click the image below to see the full copy. Allhallows Life is the magazine...

I was in Grain earlier this week enjoying the scorching late summer sun, whilst taking in some of the views around Grain Coastal Park. I had...

If you live in Hoo or the surrounding area, you might have noticed an unsual smell sweeping across the village in the past few days. I can n...

Hoo St. Werburgh Parish Church hosts many exciting concerts and performances, and that trend is set to continue. Following an enjoyable perf...

Having raised more than £600 at last year’s successful coffee morning (part of the ‘World’s Biggest Coffee Morning event), the High Halstow ...

The Hundred of Hoo School is busy working on a programme of events to commemorate this year’s Remembrance Day - adding to the school’s ties ...

I've been sent a brief update from the RSPB about their activities locally, supplied by their representative Rolf Williams (pictured bel...

Over the past few years, I’ve been meeting lots of the peninsula’s longer-standing inhabitants, or ‘peninsula elders’ as I like to call them...

Michael Dale (pictured below) is a Parish Councillor on St. James Isle of Grain Parish Council. He’s sent some of his photographs of Grain C...