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Hollywood comes to Kent

A business consortium has unveiled plans to create a two billion pound Hollywood-style theme park in Kent.

Building and running the Paramount Pictures entertainment complex, featuring cinemas, theatres, hotels, live music venues and Europe's biggest water park would create 27 thousand jobs.

The resort, rivalling Disneyland Paris, would be constructed at a vast former chalk pit on the Swanscombe Peninsula between Dartford and Gravesend - close to Ebbsfleet International railway station.

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Two billion pound theme park planned for Kent

A consortium of leading UK entertainment firms is to unveil plans for a new £2bn theme park for the Swanscombe area in Kent.

It is being said the new development could create up to 27,000 jobs for North Kent by transforming an 872 acre brownfield site into one of Europe's largest regeneration projects.

The London Resort Company Holdings [LRCH] said it has signed an exclusive agreement with Paramount Licensing Inc, the licensing division for Hollywood-based Paramount Pictures.

Kent man given ASBO for nuisance biking

Kyran Hodges of Irving Walk, Swanscombe
Kyran Hodges of Irving Walk, Swanscombe Credit: Kent Police

A 20-year-old man from Swanscombe has been handed an Anti-Social Behaviour Order after persistently riding bikes illegally on and off-road, in public parks and at Swanscombe Heritage Park, an area of specific scientific interest.

Kyran Hodges of Irving Walk was warned by Kent Police on 16 separate occasions between 2007 and 2011.

He was reported for careless driving, no insurance, driving otherwise than in accordance with a drivers licence, and riding a motorcycle without a helmet.

He appeared at Dartford Magistrates' Court on 17th November 2011, where he pleaded guilty to all offences. The ASBO is in force for two years until 4 April 2014.

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