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‘I was sold a blissful green escape but living here has been hell’
Residents who moved to a garden city for a better life say the reality is a “nightmare” with nowhere to park and construction on their front door.
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‘You’ll never meet anyone else like her’: Family’s tribute to daughter, 20
The heartbroken family of a young woman have paid tribute to her following her tragic death.
‘It’s really exciting’: Works progressing ‘at pace’ on £11bn road tunnel project
Bosses behind the country’s longest tunnel project between Kent and Essex have given an update on the works.
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‘It’s about who we are’: Another Kent town enters race to be named Town of Culture
Two Kent towns have put themselves forward in a joint bid to win a £3 million investment.
Charity set to enter liquidation due to ‘financial challenges’
Trustees of a charity have confirmed it is “likely to enter” insolvency following financial struggles.
Youth hubs set up to tackle surge in unemployment
New youth hubs are set to be rolled out in six boroughs across the county to help tackle a surge in unemployment.
Man, 18, charged after alleged alleyway stabbing
Police investigating a serious alleged assault which left a man requiring hospital treatment have charged a man.
Repairs progress update due on huge road collapse - three years on from landslip
A public meeting to update progress on repairs to a road which was catastrophically damaged in a chalk cliff collapse will be held next month.
Green light for Blue Bell Hill improvements as part of £4BN investment
Millions of drivers in the southeast are set to benefit from over £4 billion investment to improve motorways and A-roads.
Sandwich, Deal and Orpington among trains stations to close this weekend for works
Services along the coast will be impacted by works all weekend
Major step taken in delivery of multi-million-pound ‘super surgery’
Plans to build a new medical centre, which will serve tens of thousands of people, have taken another step forward.
Two teens arrested after alleged alleyway stabbing
Two teenagers have been arrested as part of an investigation into a suspected stabbing which saw a man in his 30s taken to hospital.
Father and son sentenced over hit-and-run death of four-year-old boy
A drink-fuelled father and son who rammed a 4x4 in a high-speed hit-and-run, killing a young boy and seriously injuring his dad, have been jailed.
‘We’ll never know who Peter would have grown up to be’
The family of the four-year-old boy unlawfully killed by relatives in a horrific crash last has revealed the depth of their devastation.
Work to restart on former police station site
Updated plans have been submitted to build a retirement complex on the site of a demolished police station after works stalled three years ago.
‘There isn't a wall going up but this plan for Kent divides us down the middle’
Residents in one part of Kent are campaigning against it being split up - along the “boundary of the A2” - in an upcoming shakeup to local government.
‘I’ve been fined for keeping my child off school - but I had to stop her being bullied’
Single father claims unfair fine after daughter missed school due to bullying
Funding secured for primary school as new garden ‘city centre’ takes shape
Plans to build a new school and more than 2,000 homes around an international train station have been formally approved.
Arrest as armed police respond to ‘woman seen with weapon’ in back garden
A 51-year-old woman has been arrested after allegedly being seen in possession of a possible weapon in the back garden of a home.
Car wash could open new site after leaving supermarket
Owners of a car wash have drawn up plans for a new location after moving from a supermarket car park.