The launch of the Maidstone River festival

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00:00And the River Festival is really important for our borough, it brings in a lot of visitors,

00:06it gives people a good time and it generates a lot of money for the borough and for the

00:13businesses in the borough, that's incredibly important. But above all, as you quite rightly

00:18said, it celebrates the river because the river is probably our greatest asset and bringing it back

00:25helps to do that. And I think the River Festival is probably one of the most important, if not the

00:30most important, event that we do in Mason. It brings in a lot of people and it gets very very

00:36good publicity as well and people above all have a good time and that's what really what it's about

00:42as well and it generates a lot of money for charities and we've seen some of that today.

00:49So Gane, Dave, very well done. I really appreciate, I think all people on Mason Borough Council

00:56certainly appreciate the hard work you put in and without you doing that and having the vision to

01:02set it up, we would not have a renewed River Festival. So very very well done and many thanks

01:09and personally for me, very many thanks. Thank you.