More places for drivers to stop in an emergency are to be installed on smart motorways as part of a £900m project.

A countryside charity says it has been left “deeply disheartened” over a council’s house-building plan due to “critical failings”.

A specialist developer of retirement homes is planning a new 50-home complex.

A murder trial jury has been told a pub landlord was on the phone to police when he was fatally stabbed by his ex sister-in-law.

Four attractions in the county have made it to the finals of the VisitEngland awards.

A council has gone ahead with introducing new parking charges across a borough despite thousands of people opposing the plans.

Parents have set up a petition calling for a new non-selective school to save their children spending two hours on the bus each day.

People have given their backing to an ANPR camera scheme to catch motorists using a bus-only route as a cut-through.

A parking row has broken out between residents who want to park near their homes and a head teacher trying to keep them away from the school site.

Ten years ago, Peaches Geldof took an accidental heroin overdose at her Kent home - and left the watching world and her family in shock.

A pub’s closure has shocked and saddened locals who said the place was “always busy”.

An NHS trust has bought a private healthcare facility to help reduce patient waiting time.

A Green Party candidate is hoping it will be fifth time lucky when he stands at the next General Election.

Police are appealing for information to help find a driver who collided with the back of a trailer on a motorway carriageway, then fled.

Patients at a Kent GP surgery have been told to bring their own AA batteries to appointments if they need to use one of their machines.

NatWest customers have been told their local branch is closing with the nearest now more than four miles away.

A fuel company boss who played a "leading role" in directing and organising the sale of a commercial quantity of cocaine has been jailed.

The new owners of a high street restaurant and bar have revealed plans to completely revamp it.

Plans for a new community on land previously earmarked for 1,600 homes have been put forward.

Cab drivers say they are having to work longer hours to make ends meet in their town due to the absence of a cap on numbers.