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Sean McPolin joined the Kent Media Group as a reporter for the Dartford, Gravesend and Medway Messenger in 2018. In 2020 he began working on the Sheerness Times Guardian and Sittingbourne News.
A 28-year-old lawyer has been named as one of five people killed after the suspected poisoning in Laos.
A multi-million-pound project to help reduce congestion at one of the county’s busiest junctions has been completed.
A vandal’s mindless damage to a crossing used by children and elderly people risks their safety, says a councillor.
After the cold weather left our reporter desiring a delicious curry, we sent them to one of Kent’s best rated Nepalese eateries.
A teenager who went missing more than a week ago has been found safe after a massive search effort.
A mass search operation to find 16-year-old James Gibbons, who was last spotted heading towards woodlands, has reached its seventh day.
A pre-inquest review has heard a family is concerned about the care given to their son by the ambulance service and a Kent hospital.
Two men of a five-person group who planned to use fertiliser-based bombs at Kent’s biggest shopping centre have been let out of prison.
The TV star, who lives in the county, is now out of surgery and recovering in ICU as a precaution, her partner Michael said.
A multi-vehicle collision that left three people, two of them children, in hospital is being investigated by police who are appealing for witnesses.
As concern grows for a missing 16-year-old boy last seen in a village five days ago, people in Kent are rallying together to try and find him.
A 19-year-old motorbike rider who drove on the wrong side of the road before crashing into another teen, causing him fatal injuries, has been jailed.
A club which hosted weekly events, football watchalongs, and thousands of punters has been put on the market for £850,000.
A bus driver who groomed and sexually abused two young girls has been jailed for 18 years.
A care home provider which cares for people with autism and learning difficulties has been put into special measures after reports of neglect.
A 26-year-old man was on his way to work when he was involved in a fatal crash with two other vehicles on a busy motorway.
Long-awaited plans for health and learning facilities at Britain’s newest garden city have been given the green light.
A 79-year-old man who was airlifted to hospital after being struck by a vehicle in the middle of busy town centre has died.
Police cordoned off part of a high street and removed equipment and more than 300 plants believed to be part of a cannabis farm.
The building of a huge £80million education campus, with both a primary and a secondary school, has taken a step closer to completion.