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Liane Castle joined the KM Group as a trainee reporter at the Kent Messenger in February 2020.
Plans to move a private school out of its current home to make way for more than 1,000 homes have been ditched due to high costs.
There are welfare concerns for a 17-year-old girl who has been reported missing.
Thieves armed with a “crowbar” raided a new Home Bargains store for sweets.
A rare, legally protected fungus that resembles a lion's mane has been found at nature reserve in Kent.
A brown bear who underwent pioneering, life-saving brain surgery has made a “very encouraging” recovery after six weeks of rehabilitation.
A musician who played his acoustic guitar during an eight-hour operation to remove a brain tumour says it was a “fascinating” experience.
Waterstones has revealed when it will return to a closure-hit shopping centre - six months after it left the site.
A cold weather health alert has been issued across Kent, with authorities warning there could be a “greater risk to life” for vulnerable people.
There are fears a village could be swallowed up by “mammoth” plans for the largest solar farm ever proposed for Kent.
More than £27 million has been put forward to fund ‘London-style’ bus services across Kent and Medway.
A new £34 million “zero-emission” bus route has been branded a “joke” - as it will launch with diesel-powered vehicles instead of electric ones.
A town’s fourth Costa Coffee shop has opened with a drive-thru after eight months of construction.
We were taken on an exclusive tour around a highly-anticipated new block of “homeless pods” as the first tenants prepare to move in.
A seaside spot has been named the cheapest place to buy a property in the whole of the south east.
Contractors are set to remove more than 35,000 tonnes of illegally dumped waste from a beauty spot – a job that could cost £15 million.
Permission is being sought for more HGVs to access a controversial treatment works – which produces a “rotten eggs-like odour” – on bank holidays.
A driver who woke up after a “terrifying” crash with no memory of the accident is appealing for witnesses.
Diamond by name for six decades, a husband and wife are now officially a diamond couple after celebrating their 60th wedding anniversary.
A “swanky” new smokehouse, bar and music venue has opened in a former diner after six months of renovations.
The mum of a boy who died after inhaling deodorant believes he had been taking part in a deadly online trend called “chroming”, an inquest has heard.
