Many students set to give festival the cold shoulder

Is the Canterbury Festival failing to attract a younger audience?

We spoke to students who felt that the festival wasn't set up for a younger generation.

Stefanie Klinge-Davis, the marketing manager for the event, gave her reaction to the comments.

Bargain booze causes binging

Canterbury residents have voiced concern this week over drink promotions in bars and clubs around the city.

Deals including double your shot for £1 and 80p drinks have been branded irresponsible by locals fearing it could encourage binge drinking among young people.

The issue arose after the Christ church student bar, who welcome even non-students hosted an 80p drink night on Wednesday last week.

Since the event, fears have spread that these deals are putting young people in danger as they don’t realize the risks to their health and safety when intoxicated. 

Cheap artwork for all in Canterbury

An art Gallery in Canterbury is offering the public the opportunity to have their very own piece of bespoke art work.

The Lilford gallery on Castle street in the city is running its Postcard Exhibition until the 30th of this month.  Members of the public can purchase postcards by local and national artists for £25.

The artists' identities remain anonymous until the end of the exhibition when the postcards will be given to the buyers and they will find out their artist by way of a signature on the back.

All proceeds go to the Save The Children fund.

Students spend £17,000 in two hours

Topshop raked £17,000 in a mere two hours last Thursday from student sales alone.

Whitefriars shopping area in Canterbury town centre held an exclusive shopping event where students benefitted from discount of up to 30% off. 


Other participating shops included: Topshop, The Body Shop, La Senza, H&M, Jack Wills, and River Island. In fact, River Island took £4,000 in the first half an hour of the event.

Topshop assistant Laura Abbey explains more about Topshop's boom in business last Thursday...

Canterbury Divided Over Five Bag Recycling Proposal

Residents in the Canterbury district have been divided by the latest proposal by the Council, which would see the city using up to five different bins for their rubbish.

The system, which is already being used by Dover District Council, sees food waste collected every week as opposed to Canterbury's current fortnightly system.

Some residents have complained saying it will be an expensive complication, while others have stated the city will benefit from a more dynamic and cleaner waste disposal plan.

We caught up with Councillor Bellamy who explains how the new scheme will work and what its benefits will have upon the City.

Are bookshops a dying breed?

In Canterbury alone two independent bookstores have closed their doors to the public in the last year.


Although the economic climate isn't in favour to smaller family run bookshops, larger chains are finding themselves to be in the same boat.

Chaucer Bookshop owner said: "nothing can replace the actual feel of a book, and the satisfaction of owning one."


Technology is another factor that is changing the demand for high street bookshops. With the release of Amazons Kindle and Apples application 'iBooks' many people are avoiding buying books in favour of ebooks.

The iBook application which is free to download for the iPad can be here