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Alan Smith joined the Kent Messenger as a trainee sub-editor in 1989. In 1998 he switched to a reporting role, chiefly on the Kent Messenger and subsequently on Kent Online.
A doctor who helped cut hospital waiting lists by carrying out thousands of minor surgical operations has died aged 90.
Drivers have spoken of their despair at HGVs blocking narrow lanes as they try to avoid a five-week road closure.
Plans are set out to replace a borough council with a new body, as local government reorganisation looms.
A new retirement complex for the over-60s has opened with cake, music and fizz.
A scheme for homes on land formerly used as orchards has been given unanimous approval.
The freeholds of a petrol station and of a town centre pub are being offered at auction.
A conservation area could be expanded to protect a beauty spot’s industrial heritage.
Proposals have been put forward to build 90 homes on a former gasworks, but concerns have been raised around parking.
There are calls for a review of the way road closures are handled, after 13 routes were shut at the same time in one town.
More than 1,000 people have signed a petition demanding an upgrade at a crossing where locals say lives are being put at risk.
Police were called after a car broke down on a narrow country lane, blocking the road.
A parish council is preparing to resist attempts to build 586 more homes in its village.
A small company that is cleaning up the planet by finding a way to reuse plastic waste has taken a “momentous” step forward.
Five five crews tackled a HGV alight on the major road in the early hours which caused traffic delays.
Flooding, heavy spray and strong winds from Storm Benjamin are causing chaos for motorists.
Lorries struggle to climb a hill on one of the town’s busiest roads after being stopped by traffic lights at the bottom.
A firm building 100 homes in a rural village will pay £1.9m towards infrastructure improvements.
A council has approved public consultations on the next stage of plans to build two garden settlements, despite a petition from residents.
Councillors have refused plans for a housing development after a housebuilder claimed its site would not be viable to include affordable housing.
There are plans to create a 14-bed hotel in one of a town’s key historic buildings.
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