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At last, new store is under way

29 July 2019
At last, new store is under way

The contractors building the new M&S store at Eclipse Park have won praise for a well managed site.

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Anger at Garden Village proposal

29 July 2019
Anger at Garden Village proposal

Demonstrators take their message to the Town Hall

We begin the search for this year's Cutest Kid

29 July 2019
We begin the search for this year's Cutest Kid

There's a chance to win a £400 shopping voucher and a portrait of your child in the Kent Messenger Cute Kids competition.

Junction lights out of order

29 July 2019
Junction lights out of order

Inoperative traffic lights are adding to the morning rush hour woes.

Check your train journey today

29 July 2019
Check your train journey today

Damaged overhead power cables cause disruption to services to Blackfriars.

Police smash drugs supply chains into Kent

29 July 2019
Police smash drugs supply chains into Kent

Sixteen gang members have been given prison sentences after a huge police operation to break up county lines drug trafficking.

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Councillors choose saving cherry trees over solution to traffic congestion

20 July 2019
Councillors choose saving cherry trees over solution to traffic congestion

KCC leader Cllr Paul Carter is backing a £2.5m junction scheme for Sutton Road that his own highways engineers say will have no effect beyond 2021.

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Fran clocks up a first for the borough

18 July 2019
Fran clocks up a first for the borough

Councillors honour a former colleague as "a consummate politician and a great strategic thinker."

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School children and the elderly 'put at risk'

18 July 2019
School children and the elderly 'put at risk'

Villagers have decided to take matters into the own hands after a huge increase in traffic.

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More money? No thank you, say councillors

18 July 2019
More money? No thank you, say councillors

Maidstone councillors have rejected proposals to pay themselves bigger allowances.

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Community tells Sainsbury's: Get on with it!

17 July 2019
Community tells Sainsbury's: Get on with it!

Villagers demand the supermarket they were promised six years ago

Conservation group hit by theft of tools

17 July 2019
Conservation group hit by theft of tools

A residents group that has spent 19 years working to improve the Loose Valley Conservation Area has been left without tools after a burglary.

Red Route plans for town centre

17 July 2019
Red Route plans for town centre

A Red Route around a town could be the answer to pollution problems after councillors voted against a congestion charge.

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Normandy war hero, who has a French school named after him, dies

16 July 2019
Normandy war hero, who has a French school named after him, dies

Tributes have been paid to a Second World War veteran who made it his life's work to be of service to others.

‘Being fat-shamed by doctor made me so ill my teeth fell out’

16 July 2019
‘Being fat-shamed by doctor made me so ill my teeth fell out’

A woman who considers herself the victim of ‘fat-shaming' says she still bursts into tears about the incident.

School's flash mob video to celebrate Good Ofsted

15 July 2019
School's flash mob video to celebrate Good Ofsted

A primary school has been celebrating after achieving its first Good Ofsted report in its 45-year history.

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Window death fall 'accidental'

11 July 2019
Window death fall 'accidental'

The circumstances that led to a man falling from a fourth-floor window may never be known.

This one's for Charlie

10 July 2019
This one's for Charlie

A football match between a school and the Scouts has raised £2,000 in memory of 12-year-old who died of an asthma attack

Tragic death of woman with history of mental illness

09 July 2019
Tragic death of woman with history of mental illness

A woman who had undergone gender reassignment surgery took her own life 12 years later.

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Last chance for bargains at the County Show

07 July 2019
Last chance for bargains at the County Show

Thousand of people are at Detling again for the last day of the County Show.

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