The View from Medway

The View from Medway, from Alan W Collins, provides up-to-date News, Law and Opinion from Medway and beyond.

Originally titled Alan Collins’ Political Opinions, it has experienced significant growth since it was first launched in 2006, and has been consistently voted in to the Top 100 Conservative Blogs in the annual Total Politics Blog Awards.

After a brief spell living in Birmingham, the Founding Editor returned to Medway and re-focused the website on his home towns.

About

Title The View from Medway
URL http://www.viewfrommedway.co.uk/
Founded 12 December 2006

Founding Editor Alan W Collins
Lives Gillingham, Kent
Contact alan@alanwcollins.co.uk

Aims of The View from Medway

1. To provide national and local news from Medway and the surrounding area.
2. To provide up-to-date news from the legal sector via LegalLeanings.co.uk.
3. To provide high-quality, inquisitive commentary from relevant authors.
4. To encourage healthy debate and afford a right of reply on all articles.
5. To promote a fair, open and transparent democracy.
6. To promote freedom of speech.
7. To promote and support a free and independent media.
8. To promote and support local media.
9. To promote equality and justice.

Comment Policy

1. All comments on The View from Medway are moderated.
   1. The editorial team are alerted after every comment has been posted, and will endeavour to approve the comment as quickly as possible, subject to the terms of this Comment Policy.
   2. No guarantee is given as to the length of time taken by the editorial team to approve a comment.
2. No offensive comments will be published.
   1. “Offensive comments” include, but are not limited to, sexism, racism, personal insults and defamatory comments.
   2. The definition of “offensive comments” extends to usernames and/or aliases.
3. Spam comments will not be published.
   1. “Spam comments” include, but are not limited to, heavy use of (irrelevant) hyperlinks.
   2. Comments containing one or more hyperlinks to adult or offensive material will be considered “spam comments”.
   3. The View from Medway uses intelligent spam-filtering software to identify and remove spam comments. The editorial team endeavour to check the content which has been removed by this software.
   4. No guarantee is given that every comment removed will be checked by the editorial team before it is permanently deleted.
4. IP addresses for comments are securely logged and repeat offenders may be banned.
5. The decision of the editorial team is final.

Terms & Legal

1. Any text from The View from Medway may be reproduced, either in part or in full, where the source is recognised and it is not used in a misleading context.
   1. Where content has been identified as having been used from an external website, you should seek the permission of the original creator of the work before reproducing it.
2. All photographs on The View from Medway are either Copyright © Alan W Collins or property of third parties.
   1. As far as possible, the editorial team endeavour to identify owners of photographs which are the property of a third party.
   2. If a photograph is not identified as being a property of a third party, no definite inference should be made that it is Copyright © Alan W Collins.
   3. Any claims to copyright of content on The View from Medway should be addressed to the editorial team.
3. The opinions expressed on The View from Medway may not necessarily be representative of those held by any individuals or organisations referred to in any page or article.
   1. Individuals or organisations may be either explicitly, or impliedly, referred to in any page of article on Birmingham and Beyond.