Deal

A new free evening bus service running between two towns will help women get home safely over the festive season.

Museum to close to protect precious artefacts during works

Concerns over vibrations from the use of heavy machinery during a £1million forecourt renovation have prompted a museum to shut.

Chance to meet Father Christmas at charity's fayre

The chance to meet Father Christmas - without booking - and browse stalls will be at Martha Trust Christmas Fayre.

'Give yourself a boost this winter'

People are urged to get their Covid jabs as cases rise again and are asked to take advantage of a district's third new vaccination centre.

Student, 24, hoping to join fiance named as first Channel victim

A 24-year-old hoping to join her fiance for a new life in Britain has been named as the first victim of the Channel crossings tragedy.

Could office in northern France hold key to refugee crisis?

A politician has urged the government to use offices in northern France to allow refugees to apply for UK visas.

Sacre bleu! Secret Drinker's culinary calamity

The phone says France, but the food was anything but haute cuisine in Kent's closest pub to mainland Europe

Hundreds to march on Downing Street after Channel tragedy

A protest is set to take place outside Downing Street on Saturday after a tragedy saw dozens of asylum seekers drowned while crossing the Channel.

'Even mass deaths won't stop them'

A pro-refugee group stresses that asylum seekers have not been deterred by yesterday's mass drowning, with more people arriving today.

'Act quickly or we will see another asylum seeker tragedy'

Refugee campaigners say the government must act swiftly to halt the number of would-be asylum seekers trying to reach the UK.

More asylum seekers attempt crossing just hours after deadliest day

It is understood at least two boats carrying people seeking asylum have attempted the crossing the day after dozens of people died in the Channel.

Tragedy in the Channel - the narrow sea that continues to claim lives

Since the start of last year, more than 30,000 people have risked death crossing to the UK aboard dinghies, kayaks and other small boats.

Calls for UK police to mount joint patrols with French to stop crossings

Joint police patrols on the French Channel coast have been proposed to help prevent asylum seekers attempting to cross the Channel.

Time called on beer festival venue

Organisers of an ale festival need to search for a new venue after their usual one is put out of action for years.

Countywide support for White Ribbon Day

Councillors and others are wearing white ribbons on a day highlighting male violence against women as efforts against the scourge continue Kent-wide.

'People putting migrants in boats are murderers'

People smugglers facilitating perilous crossings to the UK have been slammed as 'murderers' after more than 30 asylum seekers died in the Channel.

More than 30 dead in Channel tragedy

A major rescue operation is underway in the Channel after more than 30 people drowned, with five women and a child among the dead.

Patients 'anxious' after blood clinics are axed

Protesters holding banners marched through a town to demand the return of blood clinics at their hospital.

Pensioner reported missing found safe