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Delivery firm to create 65 jobs
31 July 2015A fast-growing parcel business is looking for drivers as it tries to expand two Kent depots.
Migrants describe desperation to reach UK from Calais
31 July 2015Desperate migrants have described why they are making dangerous attempts to enter the UK, as the PM pledges to help Kent deal with the crisis.
Commission: 'We can do nothing to stop Calais crisis'
30 July 2015The European Commission says it is powerless to help with either the Calais crisis or Operation Stack.
'Put crossing away from garden city'
30 July 2015The man due to lead the construction of a garden city in Kent has said he favours building a new Thames Crossing to the east of Gravesend.
Pier-redevelopment critics say scheme is ‘smack in town’s face’
30 July 2015More than 50 objections have been lodged against the shortening of the Grade II Prince of Wales pier on Dover’s seafront.
'HS1 success has falsely convinced government'
30 July 2015A top economist has said the prosperity brought to Kent by high speed rail is not an argument for building an HS2 link to the North.
The firm taking off with Operation Stack
29 July 2015Business is booming at a chartered flights company as desperate holidaymakers and executives try to find new ways to cross the Channel.
Highways chiefs shoot down Stack contraflow plan
27 July 2015Highways England has rejected plans to introduce a contraflow system on the M20 to ease Operation Stack chaos.
Live animal exports from Ramsgate set to resume
23 July 2015Protesters prepare to rally as the first shipment since March is due to leave the port tonight.
Barnes: 'Pay back £700k Stack costs'
20 July 2015Kent's police commissioner has urged the government to pay back the £700,000 recent costs for tackling Operation Stack.
easyJet pledges to reduce aircraft noise
19 July 2015Residents in west Kent could finally be free of a disturbing, whining noise which is produced by easyJet's A320 planes.
Ferry workers 'damage ships and drink bar dry'
16 July 2015French ferry staff who have occupied two ships in protest against job losses have vandalised the vessels and reportedly drunk its bars dry.
Yet more lawyers to look into airport site's fate
15 July 2015A Ukip-controlled council has been accused of prevaricating over promise to buy airport site.
Green light for continental trains
15 July 2015New international trains will pull into a Kent station after European officials agreed to jointly fund signal improvements.
Three hurt trying to enter Kent as MPs discuss migrant crisis
14 July 2015Three more people have been hurt trying to enter the UK via Kent as ministers prepare to hear evidence on the urgent migrant situation.
Lawyers could decide Manston airport future
14 July 2015Plans to investigate a US firm's buyout of a disused Kent airport could cost taxpayers up to £10,000.
Manston owners say use former airport as lorry park
09 July 2015Instead of Operation Stack, use Manston, say former airport owners.
Leader pours scorn on lorry park
09 July 2015A council leader's vowed to "fight every inch of the way" plans to create a lorry park in his area to ease Op Stack misery.
Farm land could 'house' Stack lorries
07 July 2015Lorries caught up in Operation Stack could be diverted off the motorway and parked in a field in future, it's been revealed.
Calais chaos 'turns off tap that helps UK trade'
06 July 2015The Port of Dover's chief executive has spoken of the economic strain the UK has to put up with when industrial action kicks off in Calais.
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