Students dance ‘The Dementia Twist’
Students from Aylesford School have come up with a new way to continue their vital work supporting elderly residents even though the pandemic.
Over the last year, the student council at the school on Teapot Lane, known as the A Team, has been working hard to organise Dementia Cafes.
Unable to continue through lockdown the students came up with a new way to raise spirits.
They created a video showing staff and students dancing to ‘The Dementia Twist’ from their homes.
The home videos were pulled together to the sound of 60s hit ‘Let’s Twist Again’ by Chubby Checker. Introducing the video, Phil Neeve, the student council coordinator said: “Students were very concerned when recently hearing about the difficulties facing residents of care homes and we wanted to help.”
Kent, more customs form-filling for all businesses, and more people employed for red tape work rather than in the more productive side of their business. However, it would be prudent to listen to local voices on some of the details of the plan.
Their rural road is prone to flooding at the turning.
The earlier plan had nicely landscaped ponds nearest to the row of houses. These residents advise that they would have no problem with the lorry park on the other side of the slope (still within the purchased site) but what they fear is concreting on their side of the slope.
The amount of parking required on that site depends on whether it will be used ONLY for HMRC checking of some inbound lorries (which could then be confined to the other side of the slope) or whether it will also be necessary as an overflow for outbound lorries to relieve an Operation Stack crisis of hold-ups on the Calais side.
Quick calculations reveal that some 2,000 lorries could be parked there if the whole site was concreted over.
The views of residents (and the calls of the buzzard that currently frequents the area) are unlikely to be heard when this concreting decision is made.
The flow of traffic on the M20 is too important to too many people. But can we have some longterm policies too, with incentives to shift more freight to rail? This generates 76% less air-pollution than HGVs (Air Quality News, December 2019).
The Channel has underused capacity: much of the inbound freight carried on HGVs on the M20 could be shifted to containers and sped through Kent by rail at night to a rehabilitated Willesden Euro terminal.
Charlotte Mbali