Council leader tells Kent Politics Podcast that house building needs to speed up.

This week’s Kent Politics Podcast special guest takes aim at the Government over its funding of councils across the county.

There’s been a mixed response to a planned crackdown on attacks on shop workers from the three candidates vying to be the county’s crime commissioner.

Recent boundary changes have left voters confused after they’ve found themselves in two places at once.

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

A campaign to set up a new town council has been defeated after it was slated by critics and was supported by just 700 people.

MPs have ordered a minister to address concerns raised by port chiefs over the decision to move bio-security checks on imported goods 22 miles inland.

“Unsightly” and controversial ventilation units ruining one of the most iconic views in Britain are set to be moved.

Leader of the Liberal Democrats Ed Davey visited Kent ahead of local elections.

More staff and extra collection days are being implemented and a council has apologised after a huge number of missed bin collections.

The future use of flats previously occupied by young people in the care system and mooted as an option for asylum-seeking children has been confirmed.

It’s a three horse race for this year’s police and crime commissioner election in May.

From New Jersey to Parliament? We spoke to the Lib Dem candidate hoping to win in a newly formed constituency at the next general election.

Fishing tackle, syringes, traffic cones, soiled underwear and drink bottles and cans were just some of the things found in a litter-strewn millpond.

Frustrated residents have branded a council's new parking permit scheme "diabolical" just days after it was launched.

A climbing frame in a children’s play park has been removed after an inspection highlighted safety concerns and ‘extensive repairs’ needed.

Controversial plans for 50 asylum seeking-teenagers to move into a former care home from next month that led to protests have been scrapped.

The man hoping to become Dover’s next MP says the government has lost touch with what ordinary people actually want.

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

The Conservatives will lose 10 Kent MPs and the Liberal Democrats will win their first-ever seat in the county, according to a major new poll.