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David's Den - It's cut by 10!
19 March 2014The chancellor has announced the 2014 budget this afternoon and players of the game are set to benefit with bingo tax slashed from 20% to 10%.
It's curtain up on a new look for Maidstone's theatre
19 March 2014More than £120,000 worth of improvements have been unveiled at Maidstone's Hazlitt Theatre.
Chinese hotel agreed
19 March 2014Permission has been granted to change a four-story building into a hotel aimed at the Chinese tourists.
Help for flood-hit tourism firms
18 March 2014A free workshop will give advice to businesses affected by the adverse weather in recent months.
Developers welcome garden city plans
17 March 2014The company behind proposals for a £2bn theme park in Kent have backed the Chancellor's plans to create a new city in the county.
Winners revealed at Taste of Kent Awards
14 March 2014The winners of the 10th Taste of Kent Awards are announced, in a celebration of the many flavours of today's Garden of England.
Thousands back campaign to save last cinema in town
12 March 2014Thousands join a petition campaign to save Folkestone's last remaining cinema
Suicide fears after council phone rant
12 March 2014Police were scrambled to check on a businessman - when he asked a council worker if he should kill himself in a phone rant about planning permission.
New episode for High Street Cinema
11 March 2014A new tenant is being sought for the upper area of the town's old cinema.
Attraction sounds out ‘exciting new partnership’
11 March 2014A Kent tourist destination has become the test venue for a new speaker product developed by a global audio giant, whose HQ is moving across the road.
Online poll: Would you pay for perceived bad service at a restaurant?
09 March 2014A restaurant owner's lost more than £1,000 after dozens of customers staged a mass walkout amid complaints about slow service and unsatisfactory food.
Profits dip for brewer
05 March 2014The continuing reorganisation of the business at Shepherd Neame has dented pre-tax profits, despite hailing a "strong trading performance".
Kent celebrate positive financial results
04 March 2014Kent are celebrating much-improved financial results according to figures released on Tuesday morning.
Weakness is strength for beer lovers
28 February 2014A former Islander who has set up his own brewery has developed a special bitter for Sheppey’s first micropub.
The new king of wok and roll
27 February 2014A new Chinese restaurant owner has got Elvis always on his mind - as an impersonator who will keep the King's memory alive for diners.
They came, they saw, they played - nearly 4,000 of them
27 February 2014Nearly 4,000 gamers of all ages took part in the biggest and best GEEK games expo yet at Margate's Winter Gardens.
A hidden treasure - but for how much longer?
26 February 2014Having won awards for its high street, things could be changing in Deal with the arrival of high-speed trains and a £40m revamp of a former colliery.
Cash awarded to pool research
25 February 2014A group of tourism experts have been given money to share past research projects with other areas, looking at ways to tap into new leisure markets.
MP proposes waterfront scheme for Ramsgate
24 February 2014A major action plan could breathe new life in to Ramsgate’s waterfront.
New owners of The Hengist reveal £250,000 plans
19 February 2014The Kent Messenger was today given an exclusive first look at the restoration project going on inside The Hengist, in Aylesford.
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