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Villagers vote to adopt neighbourhood plan
11 September 2024Around a quarter of residents turned out at polling stations to give a resounding yes to their neighbourhood plan.
Kent MP declares support for Tory leadership front runner
09 September 2024A Tory politician has decided not to back her neighbouring MP in the Conservative Party’s leadership contest and has put her support elsewhere.
Biker in his 50s dies after crash with car
09 September 2024The rider of a green Kawasaki motorbike has died following a crash with a white Fiat Panda.
Missing teen last seen at railway station found
05 September 2024A 17-year-old who had gone missing has been found safe and well.
Bins pile up as angry residents slam recycling ‘mavericks’
05 September 2024Residents are pleading with their neighbours not to contaminate their shared recycling bins after waste collectors repeatedly refuse to take them.
Classroom robots stand in for children too ill to go to school
02 September 2024A charity which helps poorly children to stay in school using the latest technology is fundraising to help more youngsters.
‘There is simply not provision in the village to accommodate a development of this size’
01 September 2024A developer has submitted plans for 99 homes on farmland in the green belt.
Pensioner pushed ill wife to the floor and kicked her in the face
31 August 2024An elderly Parkinson’s disease sufferer was attacked by her husband during an argument at their home.
Work to lower wall often hit by traffic completed
30 August 2024Villagers are holding their breath to see if work to lower an historic church wall will stop it being bashed by traffic.
Award-winning pub to host garden tour
29 August 2024The pub-hotel is just one of the late summer gardens opening this September as part of the National Garden Scheme.
Housing expansion requires water main upgrade
27 August 2024A village faces a four-month road closures while a new water main is installed to cope with increased demand.
Beer giant unveils its first Kent wines
21 August 2024Synonymous with beer for centuries, look who has just entered the Kent wine market…
The abandoned Kent prison sitting empty despite overcrowding crisis
20 August 2024Defendants are being kept in police cells to help with a shortage of prison space while one jail in Kent has sat empty for six years.
Former dance studio could become vets’ surgery
19 August 2024A vet says his new surgery will cater for cats and dogs but will also have a specialist service for exotic animals.
Tributes to ‘loyal and kind’ Australian gap year student after sudden death
19 August 2024Friends and family have paid tribute to an Australian gap year student who was teaching at a Kent school when he died after reportedly collapsing.
Doomed pub ‘should be reopened’ and called ‘The White Elephant’
17 August 2024Five years after KCC bought a pub to make room for a new junction that’s not happened it’s been suggested it be renamed “The White Elephant”.
Mass water quality tests will help ‘fight for real change’
16 August 2024A town’s residents are being urged to take part in a citizens’ science project to test the quality of rivers and streams.
A-road blocked following two-car crash
15 August 2024Two-mile tailbacks were reported after a collision on a main road.
Housing estate’s sail sculpture a link to smuggling past
15 August 2024A housing developer has commissioned a work of art to link a new village estate to its murky smuggling-gang past.
20 firefighters tackle blaze in field
15 August 2024Fire crews have been battling a field blaze after flames swept through crops.
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