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Man, 18, charged after alleged alleyway stabbing
Police investigating a serious alleged assault which left a man requiring hospital treatment have charged a man.
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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.
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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.
Call 999 if you see either of two men wanted by Kent Police
They have connections to multiple parts of the county
New calls for KCC to back Blue Badge rules change
The majority of councils across the county are backing a KentOnline campaign for fairer parking rules.
Sex attacker banned from spas after assaulting woman in leisure centre hot tub
A pervert who sexually touched a woman as she was getting out of a Jacuzzi at a leisure centre has been placed on the sex offenders register.
Shock as top health chief quits amid job losses and financial issues
A health boss in charge of two of the county’s biggest hospital trusts has announced his resignation.
Young boy tried to save ‘beautiful’ girl, 9, who slipped on jetty and drowned
A young boy jumped into the River Thames to try and save his drowning family member, an inquest has heard.
Relocation bid for firm based on land ‘wanted for Lower Thames Crossing’ set for refusal
A business based on land wanted for one of Britain’s biggest infrastructure projects could see its relocation bid refused over green belt concerns.