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BRUCE BALLANTINE 1942-2005HIGHLY RESPECTED,unstinting in hisfriendship, clear-sighted,intellectual yet practical,cultured, civilised andcourteous; these are a fewof the tributes made aboutPembury BoroughCouncillor BruceBallantine who died inMarch after a feisty battleagainst cancer.David Mills, fellow LiberalDemocrat Councillor,remembers: “It’s been saidthat if you want somethingdone you should ask a busy man! Thatseems to me to encapsulate Bruce’sapproach to life. He was a man of so manyand such varied aspects. He had anextraordinarily successful business career, heworked in Europe, he devoted a great dealof time to his work for charity, for youngpeople, for the arts, on the BoroughCouncil – not to speak of his passion forgolf ...! He gave everything to each ofthese but he could still always find the timeto help someone who needed him.“I first met Bruce towards the end of 1995.I had been elected to Tunbridge WellsBorough Council earlier that year and anumber of mutual friends thought he andI could work well together. Busy as he was,he agreed to let his name go forward as acandidate for the following year’s election.“Having done that, of course, he becameenthusiastic. I think he’s the only candidatefor election I’ve ever seen running fromhouse to house when canvassing! That wasthe thing he enjoyed – going out and talkingto people. By then he’d lived in Pemburyfor 25 years. The village knew him andtrusted him. He’d been involved incommunity affairs for a long time already(he’d been a leading campaigner for theby-pass, for instance,and had been a ParishCouncillor for a time inthe 1970s). So, he wonthe election in May 1996and held the seat throughseveral further electionsuntil his death.“So, he was a BoroughCouncillor for just undernine years. Not anunusually long period buthe made a considerableimpact in that time.He held important andresponsible positions insuch areas as ‘Best Value’; he was Chairmanof the Scrutiny Committee, one of the mostimportant elements of the ‘checks andbalances’ structure designed to monitor theCouncil’s procedures. He was one of thefew who thoroughly understood theintricacies of local government finance.He ‘networked’ very effectively, developinggood relationships with other Councillorsand Council staff. He followed this patternin the community, too, he was alwayssensitive to Pembury opinion, and was ableto achieve much for individuals, for thisvillage and for the Borough.During all this time he was as busy as everin other fields. He would go to Brussels forthe day on business and be back in timefor a Council meeting. As a schoolgovernor (Tunbridge Wells High Schooland Tunbridge Wells Girls’ GrammarSchool), he not only brought his expertiseto serve the schools but helped withmentoring individual students. He was apatron of the Tunbridge Wells InternationalYoung Concert Artists Competition, aTrustee of Hospice in the Weald ...onecould go on, and on.continued on page 75
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