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Map of how village looked more than 270 years ago unveiled

22 August 2024
Map of how village looked more than 270 years ago unveiled

A detailed map showing a Kent village as it was in 1752 has been unveiled.

Hair salon could become pizza restaurant

22 August 2024
Hair salon could become pizza restaurant

An application has been made to convert a hair salon into a pizza restaurant and takeway.

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HMO plan for terraced street branded ‘insanity’ and ‘ludicrous’

22 August 2024
HMO plan for terraced street branded ‘insanity’ and ‘ludicrous’

Plans for yet another house in multiple occupation in a street where one in 10 are already HMOs have been criticised by ward councillors.

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The abandoned Kent prison sitting empty despite overcrowding crisis

20 August 2024
The abandoned Kent prison sitting empty despite overcrowding crisis

Defendants 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.

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Manager ‘immensely proud’ as care home improves from ‘inadequate’ to ‘good’

19 August 2024
Manager ‘immensely proud’ as care home improves from ‘inadequate’ to ‘good’

A care home has dramatically improved its standards and has been rated “good” in every category.

Love Island star opens new expanded Bluewater beauty store

19 August 2024
Love Island star opens new expanded Bluewater beauty store

Love Island's Sophie Piper was pictured donning a bucket hat as she helped unveil Superdrug’s brand new store based at Kent’s largest shopping centre.

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Former dance studio could become vets’ surgery

19 August 2024
Former dance studio could become vets’ surgery

A vet says his new surgery will cater for cats and dogs but will also have a specialist service for exotic animals.

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Doomed pub ‘should be reopened’ and called ‘The White Elephant’

17 August 2024
Doomed pub ‘should be reopened’ and called ‘The White Elephant’

Five 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”.

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‘It’s a myth that men don’t want to talk about being dads’

16 August 2024
‘It’s a myth that men don’t want to talk about being dads’

A support group for dads is set to expand across Kent after being awarded a grant from KCC.

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Stones to kick-off charity shop’s relaunch

16 August 2024
Stones to kick-off charity shop’s relaunch

People are invited to meet a town’s football club’s players at the opening of a charity shop’s extension next week.

Charity to open ‘one of its biggest shops yet’

16 August 2024
Charity to open ‘one of its biggest shops yet’

A town’s redevelopment plans means a charity has had to move its retail distribution centre where it will soon be opening one of its largest shops.

Mass water quality tests will help ‘fight for real change’

16 August 2024
Mass water quality tests will help ‘fight for real change’

A town’s residents are being urged to take part in a citizens’ science project to test the quality of rivers and streams.

Ford Transit gang jailed after cocaine found stashed in folded lottery tickets

16 August 2024
Ford Transit gang jailed after cocaine found stashed in folded lottery tickets

Three men have been jailed after police stopped a “suspicious” van which led to the discovery of a huge drugs haul.

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Housing estate’s sail sculpture a link to smuggling past

15 August 2024
Housing estate’s sail sculpture a link to smuggling past

A housing developer has commissioned a work of art to link a new village estate to its murky smuggling-gang past.

‘Blame developers not Nimbys for housing shortage’

15 August 2024
‘Blame developers not Nimbys for housing shortage’

Labour will not solve the housing crisis just by setting new house-building targets, a councillor has warned.

Family-run portable toilet business sold

14 August 2024
Family-run portable toilet business sold

A family firm of 50 years standing providing portable toilets has been sold.

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Frustration as junction revamp plans delayed or dropped

14 August 2024
Frustration as junction revamp plans delayed or dropped

Kent Highways has been heavily criticised after completing only one of 10 scheduled junction improvements in four years.

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New parking charges to come into force next week

14 August 2024
New parking charges to come into force next week

New parking charges come into effect next week with motorists facing Sunday charges for the first time.

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‘Carpet-bombing estate with double yellow lines is shameful’

14 August 2024
‘Carpet-bombing estate with double yellow lines is shameful’

An estate that so far has survived without parking restrictions is about to be “carpet-bombed” with double yellow lines.

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Village to hold referendum on housing plans

13 August 2024
Village to hold referendum on housing plans

Villagers have a chance to shape their own future planning rules by voting in a Neighbourhood Plan referendum.

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