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OF TUNBRIDGE WELLS
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Wednesday October 26 | 2022
Upcoming Events at Kent’s Newest Performing Arts Venue Len Phillips Swing Orchestra 10-11 December Details on page 5
A Christmas Carol 2-3 December
Middle Earth comes to Tunbridge Wells Lunch special Main and any soft drinks for £11.95 WRAPS
(all served with salad) Spicy chicken wrap Lamb Adana wrap Falafel and Hummus wrap ( VE ) Grilled Halloumi wrap ( V )
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(all served with salad) Spicy chicken thighs Chicken kofte Sea bass fillet 7oz Homemade Beef burger Swap your soft drink for either Efes beer pint +£3.00 Any house wine +£3.00
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FILM CREW: Dwarves, Elves and Hobbits could be among sights spotted by residents over the next few days as a film crew shooting the next season of Amazon’s Rings of Power has arrived in the town. Full story page 3.
MP: ‘Why Rishi Sunak is the right man to be PM’
Tunbridge Wells MP Greg Clark tells the Times that the new PM has a record of ‘bold, decisive action when it was needed’ By Richard Williams GREG CLARK has said he is ‘proud’, ‘delighted’ and ‘relieved’ that Rishi Sunak has become the country’s new Prime Minister following weeks of chaos in the Tory Party. The Tunbridge Wells MP, who was made Levelling Up Secretary towards the end of Boris Johnson’s premiership, came out in support of Mr Sunak on Friday and nominated him for the job. Mr Clark was pictured with Rishi Sunak during the last leadership election when the former Chancellor visited Tunbridge Wells in July during his unsuccessful former run to be PM against Ms Truss. During that visit, Mr Sunak caused a furore when a leaked video of him at the Tunbridge Wells Constitutional Club in
Sandrock Road suggested he had begun moving funding from deprived areas of the country to places such as Tunbridge Wells.
‘I hope that, as our new Prime Minister, Rishi Sunak will start as he means to go on’ At the time, Mr Clark refused to say who he wanted to be the next PM, but this time around, the Tunbridge Wells MP openly backed Mr Sunak and was among the 165+ Tory members who nominated him for the leadership job. Now exclusively writing for the Times, Mr Clark says Rishi Sunak, who officially
became the UK’s fifth PM in just six years after meeting the King yesterday (Tuesday), was a man ‘of intelligence, decency and capability who I am proud to support’. He said: “During the Summer leadership campaign, Rishi Sunak showed that he understood what was needed. “It came at considerable detriment to his own electoral prospects because people are never keen on whoever is the bearer of tough news. But he was right, he refused to be intimidated into hiding the truth, and he has been vindicated by events. “Rishi Sunak also got things right during Covid. I vividly recall asking an Urgent Question in the House of
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