🌈 We've been speaking to voters across Rochester East and Warren Wood on behalf of @carolynjhart.bsky.social and Robert Wyatt today as polls are open until 10pm🌹

This will be close

🪪 Make sure your voice is heard & remember your voter ID

Nothing says Christmas like a bitter, defeated, former Medway MP (who’s still using her Privy Council title for some unknown reason) trying to exploit the plight of Strood residents hit by water shortages for political point scoring. 1/2

📢 Medway Council is opening Strood Sports Centre from 9.30am to 12noon tomorrow (Wed, 25 Dec) so that residents without water can shower using the sports centre facilities.

This is very helpful and I'd like to say thank you to staff who will be giving up part of their Christmas day to help others.

🚌🚏Bumped into my colleague Cllr Teresa Murray on the free bus home from #RochesterChristmasMarket. Make sure you take full advantage of Medway’s free buses this weekend and next instead- and don’t miss #Rochester Farmers Market with stalls along the High Street tomorrow.

☃️☀️It’s a bright, white Christmas at #RochesterChristmasMarket. Leaden skies turned blue today, in time for thousands of visitors to flock to our High Street and support local traders. Same again tomorrow please. Merry Christmas everybody!🎄#RochesterWest #ProudToBeMedway

Great to have the sun shining on the Friends of Watts Meadow Christmas get together and pleased to see good progress on council path improvement works. #RochesterWest

Christmas came early this year, 4th July to be precise! And when you get a Labour government then Santa turns up at the @lgalabour.bsky.social next generation programme! He had a remarkable likeness to Cllr Daniel Allen.

Great to catch up some superb Medway small businesses in the Pentagon centre on #SmallBusinessSaturday.

Final event before Christmas happening on 21st December where there will be free buses across Medway.

#ProudToBeMedway

Congratulations to the double-award-winning Safer, Healthier Streets team, honoured again tonight at Medway’s Make A Difference Awards. So proud of the pioneering work we are doing here and delighted that these fantastic officers are getting the recognition they deserve.

#proudtobemedway

“No reasonable parent would put their own convenience ahead of the safety of the community."

Delighted to have support of Cabinet colleagues as 9 new #SchoolStreets move to statutory consultation.

Safer, healthier journeys to and from school are coming.

www.bbc.com/news/article...

"... you have to remember that every single one of those PCNs is a driver who has either carelessly, recklessly, or deliberately ignored the rules and put children in danger. I’m not prepared to accept that."

Well said @alexpaterson.bsky.social

#SchoolStreets

Alternative headline:

3000 motorists unlawfully drive through a #SchoolStreet, which is a scheme that restricts motor traffic to keep children safer and healthier on their way to school.

Well done, and thank you, @alexpaterson.bsky.social.

This #RoadSafetyWeek I’ll be bringing proposals to Cabinet for nine new #SchoolStreets in Medway. In memory of all of those killed on the road on their way to and from school, I am determined to make those journeys safer for our children and grandchildren. #ChildFriendlyMedway

Ahead of the Chancellor's announcement in her Mansion House speech today, news on the creation of a new Co-operatives and Mutuals Council underlines the Government's commitment to growing this key sector.

🚸Disappointing to see Medway Tories once again on the side of selfish drivers putting our children in danger, rather than standing up for families doing the right thing.

Maybe they believe it, maybe it’s political opportunism. Either way, they’re wrong.

www.kentonline.co.uk/medway/news/...

“The simple message to anyone ignoring these signs is: stop, read the signs, and follow the rules. This isn’t difficult.”

www.kentonline.co.uk/medway/news/...

Proud to represent Rochester West & Borstal residents on Remembrance Sunday at
Rochester Cathedral and the War Memorial alongside Medway Labour colleagues. #lestweforget