Organisers of a town’s popular oyster festival have insisted this year’s event was never in doubt, despite only confirming the dates last week. Preparations for the Whitstable Rocks Oyster Festival are continuing to be “fine-tuned” and the firm behind the eagerly anticipated event says it will be a full programme of family entertainment. Concerns had been raised over the absence of details for the long-awaited event casting fears it would not be taking place in 2024. Now in its third year since being re-invented following the pandemic lockdown, it was The Event Umbrella which took on the chall…