Groups connected with the Port of Dover have welcomed the harbour board’s fresh new openness. Members of the new board have promised “real changes - and quickly.”

A vicious spanner attack on a heroin addict did not contribute to his death, an inquest has concluded. Andrew Johnson was found collapsed in a Dover public toilet.

Amended plans for the Dover Town Investment Zone are expected be passed within weeks. This would then clear the way for fresh compulsory purchase orders to be approved so that existing buildings, including the Burlington House office block, can be demolished.

A service took place on Saturday dedicated to the 21 servicemen whose names have been added to the Dover War Memorial.

The replica of the Bronze Age boat which was found under the A20 in Dover has finally returned to the UK from France for the debut of a new exhibition.

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