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Campaign for the return of international trains to Kent stations

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Labour needs to to broaden its rail strategy, says BBET

Published: 29 April, 2024 | Category: BBET Campaign

Last Thursday the Shadow Cabinet announced that Labour would bring the railways back into public ownership, if elected. Their announcement concerns improvements only in domestic railways, but Bring Back Euro Trains is asking them to think more widely and include… Read More >

East Kent for Europe to mark Channel Tunnel’s 30th anniversary

Published: 16 April, 2024 | Category: General News | Tags:

East Kent for Europe, a branch of the European Movement, plans to celebrate 30 years since the opening of the Channel Tunnel with reciprocal return visits involving colleagues from Calais. Calais will host groups from Kent on May 4, and… Read More >

Eurostar: the view from Hastings

Published: 16 April, 2024 | Category: General News | Tags: ,

This slightly old (2022) article from the Hastings Independent is valuable for its insightful delve into the history of the international train service from Ashford, as viewed from Hastings. Ashford matters to Hastings because of the Marshlink line that runs… Read More >

Webinar interview with Michael and Edith Robson

Published: 11 April, 2024 | Category: BBET Campaign | Tags:

Edith ran the successful campaign “Save our Eurostar” between 2007 and 2009 to maintain the direct services from Ashford to Brussels, running a petition that reached 11,000. Michael spent 40 years on the rail industry and in railway consultancy. This… Read More >

Webinar: Michael Solomon Williams of Campaign for Better Transport

Published: 10 April, 2024 | Category: BBET Campaign | Tags:

Michael Solomon Williams is Campaigns Manager with Better Transport (formerly Transport 2000). Better Transport have a 50-year track record of advocacy for sustainable transport and campaigning for positive change. This was the fifth presentation of the Petition Anniversay Webinar that… Read More >

Webinar presentation by Damian Green MP

Published: 4 April, 2024 | Category: BBET Campaign | Tags:

The Rt Hon Damian Green, MP for Ashford, has been an advocate for the return of international trains to Kent since the service stopped in March 2020. Last October, Damian brought the issue to Parliament to get in front of… Read More >

A business impacted by the loss of international trains, by JC Cothias

Published: 2 April, 2024 | Category: BBET Campaign | Tags:

JC is a French entrpreneur who has lived in Ashford for 25 years. He runs a business employing a number of French nationals. His business is profoundly impacted by the loss of cross-Channel trains from Ashford and Ebbsfleet. Here he… Read More >

KCC business survey results presentation, by Andrew Osborne

Published: 2 April, 2024 | Category: BBET Campaign | Tags:

Andrew Osborne is Head of Economic Development at Ashford Borough Council. He presents here the results of the business survey which was carried out between October 2023 and January 2024. This was the second presentation of the Petition Anniversay Webinar… Read More >

Webinar presentation: petition analysis, by Phillip Gay

Published: 2 April, 2024 | Category: BBET Campaign | Tags:

Phillip is BBET’s IT specialist and in-house geek. Together with Bushra Akhtar, he has analysed the data generated by the petition and presents it here. The analysis was based on 52,694 signatures gathered between the petition’s launch on 9th March… Read More >