This week's Kent Messenger
00:00, 28 June 2013
The KM is out again, packed with news, opinion and a new section this week.
Pupils at Invicta Grammar school are furious to be bearing the brunt of KCC transport cutbacks, in a plan branded harmful to their safety.
Remember a hideous-sounding siren going off in the wee small hours? We know what it was - all is set to be revealed inside.
How an amateur boxer was just two minutes away from death, after a horror crash.
A boy donates his £2 pocket money to the vanadlised mini railway at Mote Park - and a mystery shopper offers to pay for a mum's shopping following cash card problems.
New this week: We introduce the Your Local section. Its a natural home for community news, celebrating insipirational people and good deeds. Some of the regulars you know and love are in there, including the popular Memories Section. We've also introduced a new hate, rate and great snapshot and a column of Tweets of the Week.
Want to graze a goat? No problem - a school uncovers a bizarre ancient right.
How many children from Kent schools go to top universities?
Plus, alien invastion? What the now-closed UFO files reveal about our area.
In Weald, there's shock in Cranbrook after a game of football among teenagers ended with a stabbing.
The men who are planning a streak to raise money for cats. (Yes, a streak)
Government signals its intent to give cash to go towards the dualling of the A21 at Pembury.
In Malling is West Malling turning into West Brawling? Police were called to a mass brawl involving 10 men from a stag party, just two weeks after another fight.
A florist is on a secret mission to drop bouquets around Tonbridge and Malling to cheer people up.
A family say an inquest into the death of popular Christopher Mills has not answered their questions.
And another inquest hears about a horrific crash when a cyclist ploughed straight into a stationery lorry.
Plus a woman from Leybourne is becoming an ambassador so the horrors of the Holocaust are never forgotten.
Plus What's on magazine, with inspiration for days out and now home to travel feautures.
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High street’s oldest shop to finally reopen 18 months after roof collapsed
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