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Gold award for Maidstone Council
07 March 2014A public service award has been awarded to a partnership of four councils, including Maidstone Borough Council.
Tributes are coming in for footballing legend
04 March 2014A man who devoted four decades of his life to his beloved football club has passed away after he fell from a scaffolding.
Anxious wait over as eight in 10 offered first choice of secondary school
03 March 2014The wait is over for thousands of children across Kent and Medway as more than 80% are offered places in their first choice of secondary school today.
Quick police work recovers stolen tablet
03 March 2014Don't keep taking the tablets would seem to be the best advice to Tonbridge criminals this week.
Business park plans rejected
02 March 2014A proposal for a "grotesque" business park has been thrown out by councillors.
Further train delays from Hastings to Tonbridge
02 March 2014Commuters expecting a full resumption of train services from Tonbridge to Hastings tomorrow will be disappointed.
Runners caught out by train line closure
02 March 2014A half marathon started on time this morning - but some runners were late because they didn't realise a rail line was closed following a landslip.
Borough loses deputy mayor
01 March 2014Warm, generous, funny and kind were words used to describe the deputy mayor of Tunbridge Wells who died this week.
Elderly man needs first aid after kitchen fire
01 March 2014A man in his late 70s has been treated by fire crews and paramedics after a fire started in his kitchen.
Standards slipping at model prison
01 March 2014A Kent prison is no longer 'the jewel in the prison service crown', an inspection has found.
Drugs charges after cannabis factory found in Sevenoaks
28 February 2014Three men have been convicted in connection with the production and sale of "substantial" quantities of drugs from a cannabis factory in Sevenoaks.
MP: let's give local news a boost
28 February 2014MP Tracey Crouch believes national broadcasters should work alongside local media as the issue comes before a parliamentary inquiry.
Paul Carter asks government for 50 per cent of funds to pay for flood defences
27 February 2014Kent County Council leader asks central government for written promise on flood funding.
Prehistoric Knole
27 February 2014The archaeologist Alastair Oswald has spent the past year digging into the prehistoric past of Knole Park, Sevenoaks
Crisis loans used by thousands of families on breadline to be axed
26 February 2014An emergency fund that offers critical support to thousands of struggling families across Kent - even paying for food - is being ditched.
Inspectors praise Sutton Valence School
26 February 2014An independent school in Maidstone has been praised for its good teaching and attentive pupils.
Protest over play area closure
26 February 2014Playgrounds are essential to keep our children fit, argued residents angered by Maidstone' Council's plans to close 20 play areas.
Trapped taxi driver rescued from car
26 February 2014A driver had to be released by fire crews after his car crashed into an embankment on the M20.
Bridge repairs will lead to congestion
25 February 2014Three weeks of diversions await Tonbridge town centre traffic.
Call for former pupils of St Simon Stock
25 February 2014Former school pupils can be of enormous help to today's students, says charity.
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