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'They see me as a big sister'
19 October 2020A 26-year-old woman from Kent is the legal guardian of 14 Tanzanian children, some from an orphanage which shut and others rescued from the streets.
Tragic mission of doomed Kent sailors
19 October 2020A photo of a man who had died 140 years before featured in newspapers around the world when taken in 1986. This is the story of how it came about.
On the run: The inmates who escaped our prisons
18 October 2020From a people smuggler caught after 28 years on the run, to a burglar found the next day on a stolen bike, here are tales of prison escapes in Kent.
Kent's lost police stations and what's there now
17 October 2020From blocks of flats to beauty salons and Wetherspoon pubs, several of our county's former police stations now have a new lease of life.
The 1987 Great Storm in 100 photos
15 October 2020Every picture tells a story as we look back through our archive at the storm that devastated Kent in October 1987.
Where you can see Kent on Netflix
14 October 2020An old prison, a dockyard and a country estate in Kent have all featured in a Netflix series over the years.
Remarkable history of Kent's workhouses
13 October 2020Chances are you drive by a former workhouse every day - we take a look back at the grim reality for generations of the county's poorest people.
Kent's hospitals then and now
12 October 2020Take a look back in time and fast forward to the present as we go back into the archives to look at Kent's hospitals through the ages.
How Kent nearly lost its Garden of England title
11 October 2020Everybody knows Kent is The Garden of England but most people have forgotten about the time we nearly lost our prestigious crown to the North.
Meet the 400,000-year-old resident of Kent
05 October 2020A speculative dig on the county's gravel pits once led to an amazing discovery about the early history of mankind and the company they kept.
Mixed vs single sex schools
04 October 2020A school head's view that single sex education is best has opened up a familiar debate.
The tale of the evil woman who drowned a child
03 October 2020Frances Kidder was the last woman to be hanged in public after being found guilty of the murder of her step-daughter.
Kent's historical black figures
01 October 2020To mark Black History Month, we have taken a look at some of Kent's most influential black figures.
The day 16,000 refugees arrived in Kent
30 September 2020More than a century ago the county welcomed thousands of people in a single day, as they fled from their war-torn country.
2,000 light years from home
28 September 2020Kent Rolling Stones tour guide Ken Pimm is thinking of packing up his driving boots, so should Mick and Keith come home to take the wheel?
'I've sold £50m worth of books at my shop'
27 September 2020Waterstones' longest-serving manager has told of visits from famous authors such as JK Rowling during his 35 years at a Kent store.
LGBTQ+ homeless people at risk from 'survival sex'
27 September 2020An organisation is offering supported housing to help LGBTQ+ homeless people escape dangerous situations such as 'survival sex'.
The night bomb terror came to pub
25 September 2020A former landlord recalls the night his pub was destroyed by an IRA bomb at the height of the Troubles.
'This is not a witch hunt'
24 September 2020From the MP owning Jamaican plantations to the architect who designed Delhi's capital, we delve into the county's colonialist past.
Who really wrote the Ingoldsby Legends?
21 September 2020Kent's strangest folk tales were recorded by Thomas Ingoldsby in the Ingoldsby Legends. But who was this mysterious friend of Charles Dickens?
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