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A glimpse inside the priciest houses in every Kent town
13 March 2021From a celebrity duo's £5m mansion, to a clifftop house with swimming pool - some truly spectacular homes have recently come on the market.
The Kent woman who wrote the world's first novel
13 March 2021Born to a Kent barber, Aphra Behn would go on to lead an extraordinary life - becoming the the first English woman to earn her living by writing.
Where was printer's true birthplace?
10 March 2021William Caxton, the "father" of standard English was born in Kent - somewhere.
The lost village wiped out by disease
10 March 2021This is the story of an almost forgotten Kent village and the last remaining item from it.
Lifeboat crew who died at sea during storm
09 March 2021Three RNLI volunteers lost their lives at sea during a huge storm off the Kent coast more than 100 years ago.
'They laughed when I said I was going to be a millionaire'
09 March 2021He described himself as a "numbskull" at school but 40 years later Sir Freddie Laker was a household name - here is his remarkable story.
Kent's record shops and the vinyl revival
08 March 2021Independent record stores have found new and innovative ways to engage with music fans despite online challenges as the vinyl revival spins on.
How Kent's County Town earned its title
07 March 2021One place gets the honour of being called the County Town but does anybody really know why? Here we look at how the choice was made.
The house in Kent where Parliament was designed
07 March 2021Augustus Pugin played a large role in shaping Victorian Britain and at his home in Kent he designed many famous buildings, including Parliament.
Incredible final journey of disaster ferry after it was refloated
06 March 2021The Herald of Free Enterprise disaster claimed 193 lives in 1987. This is the story of what happened after the ferry was refloated.
The cutest animals born in Kent
04 March 2021We take a look back at the cutest animals born in Kent's wildlife parks over the years.
Kent's lost schools and what they are now
03 March 2021Over the last century many of the county's education establishments have disappeared - we look at what happened and what they are now.
The stories of the Vikings that shaped our history
02 March 2021The din of battle horns and longships off the Kent coast would have been an all too familiar sight as 1,100 years ago Viking raiders looted.
How one man built a travel empire
01 March 2021The remarkable story of how one of the most influential travel companies - and major Kent employer - was born.
'An end to village life as we know it'
28 February 2021Residents in a corner of Kent earmarked for thousands of homes say the developments will spell the end for community life.
Why are 'Tonbridge' and 'Tunbridge Wells' spelt differently?
28 February 2021We dip into the history behind the two closely-linked town names, after a BBC interior design show got them mixed up earlier this week.
Kent's forgotten nuclear bunkers
25 February 2021Nuclear bunkers remain littered around the county, reminders of a fear that lasted decades.
Why Kent is the new crime writing capital
24 February 2021In recent years more and more crime novels have been set in Kent - we asked four writers why the county is the perfect setting for gruesome murders.
New mums lift lid on Covid pregnancies
23 February 2021Much has been made of whether children will suffer lasting damage after school disruption but what about Covid's impact on newborns and their parents?
How gang stole £50m in Britain's biggest heist
21 February 2021How criminals pulled of the Kent robbery that shook the country and the ongoing mystery of the missing millions.
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