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As Britain marks VJ Day, a veteran remembers the end of the war in Japan, and the terrible sight of allied POWs imprisoned by the imperial army.
Traffic is now returning to normal after an earlier accident.
A planning inquiry has opened to decide whether a developer should be allowed to build 220 homes on a field next to a primary school.
Mystery still surrounds the death of a young woman who drowned in a canal after a drinking session with her boyfriend.
The cycling world is in mourning for Roy Manser, who died after a ride out with the Wednesday Wobblers.
Maidstone council decided not to wait for a planning inspector's decision before approving housing plans for Hermitage Lane at Allington.
Check your chimneys before winter, warns Kent Fire and Rescue
A government inspector has rejected plans for a business and warehouse complex.
A former quarry, once destined as a materials recycling plant, could be redeveloped for housing.
A petition against plans to impose parking charges at one of the county's most well-known parks has been launched.
A drug dealer has been jailed for 18 months.
Egg producer Fridays is hoping that a public exhibition will convince villagers to support its plans for a free-range egg farm housing 64,000 hens.
Maidstone council is in mourning for Cllr Alistair Black who died suddenly last night.
The Kent Messenger's longest serving village correspondent, Ron Hegarty, has died.
Maidstone's latest business venture is a late-night ice-cream parlour.
Angry councillors have forced a debate at full council over plans to include Junction 8 for business development.
There was a funeral service for Sir Reg Doyle, the former chief inspector of the Fire Service, in Headcorn today.
The sun shone down on the first day of the Maidstone Arts Festival.
Wood-carving, emus and a clown - Staplehurst fete had it all.
She's beaten cancer herself, now mum Jackie Geary is determined to help others do the same.
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