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Alex Langridge

Alex Langridge joined the KM Group in 2021 as a trainee reporter covering Dartford, Gravesend and Medway.

‘Opportunities like this mean a lot to our residents’

20 March 2025
‘Opportunities like this mean a lot to our residents’

A care service has arranged a trip for one of their radio-loving residents to see behind the scenes at Kent’s biggest station.

Youth club secures ‘lifeline’ £50k donation after American businessman’s ‘hometown visit’

18 March 2025
Youth club secures ‘lifeline’ £50k donation after American businessman’s ‘hometown visit’

A youth club at risk of closure due to funding cuts has been provided with a funding “lifeline” thanks to a generous donation from a former resident.

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Live music venue builds £60k amphitheatre in back garden

18 March 2025
Live music venue builds £60k amphitheatre in back garden

The owner of a renowned live music venue is bucking the trend by opening a new special stage.

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Primary school issues ‘stranger danger’ warning

17 March 2025
Primary school issues ‘stranger danger’ warning

A primary school has issued a warning to parents after reports of an older man approaching young people.

Major emergency response to reports of ‘body in river’

17 March 2025
Major emergency response to reports of ‘body in river’

Police, fire, ambulance and coastguard searched a stretch of the River Medway after receiving reports a body had been spotted in the water.

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Gull killed in ‘unspeakably cruel’ teen catapult attack

14 March 2025
Gull killed in ‘unspeakably cruel’ teen catapult attack

The RSPCA has launched an investigation after a gull was allegedly killed by a group of boys before being left outside a front door.

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Woman found guilty of murdering partner after stabbing him repeatedly

14 March 2025
Woman found guilty of murdering partner after stabbing him repeatedly

A drug addict has been found guilty of murdering her partner by stabbing him in the back with a knife.

Taxi driver jailed after fraudulently borrowing £130k in Covid loans

14 March 2025
Taxi driver jailed after fraudulently borrowing £130k in Covid loans

A Kent taxi driver secured £130,000 in loans from the government during the pandemic by falsley inflating his firms’ turnover.

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Wildlife experts hit back at PM over ‘misleading’ claims ‘endangered spiders halted hundreds of new homes’

14 March 2025
Wildlife experts hit back at PM over ‘misleading’ claims ‘endangered spiders halted hundreds of new homes’

Conservation experts say the Prime Minister’s comments that rare arachnids have stopped the building of 15,000 homes in Kent are “oversimplified”.

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Pilot overshot landing before plane bounced and crashed

14 March 2025
Pilot overshot landing before plane bounced and crashed

An investigation has found the pilot of a plane which crashed into woodland was dealing with a “high workload” at the time.

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New ‘scores on the door’ service launched for pet owners in Kent

13 March 2025
New ‘scores on the door’ service launched for pet owners in Kent

A Kent council has become one of the first to adopt a new health rating scheme for local businesses associated with the care and sale of animals.

‘Dad thought the lump on his thigh was just a knock but it was cancer’

09 March 2025
‘Dad thought the lump on his thigh was just a knock but it was cancer’

The son of a retired police officer who died from cancer just six months after being diagnosed is urging people to check any “sinister” signs.

Residents’ outrage as double yellow line proposals approved

07 March 2025
Residents’ outrage as double yellow line proposals approved

A scheme to install parking restrictions to allow 24-hour emergency access to a palliative care hospice has been branded “a terrible mistake”.

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Woman accused of murdering ‘Jekyll and Hyde’ partner ‘cannot remember’ what happened

06 March 2025
Woman accused of murdering ‘Jekyll and Hyde’ partner ‘cannot remember’ what happened

A drug addict on trial accused of murdering her partner by stabbing him in the back accepts she inflicted the injuries but “cannot remember how”.

‘A manhole is not a bird table’: Sewer blocked by growing plants

05 March 2025
‘A manhole is not a bird table’: Sewer blocked by growing plants

Utility crews were shocked to find a sewer had been blocked by plants which had grown from fallen bird seed.

‘The area needs this, get it done’ - Hundreds back plan to redevelop ‘eyesore’ A2 hotel

04 March 2025
‘The area needs this, get it done’ - Hundreds back plan to redevelop ‘eyesore’ A2 hotel

Plans to transform an “eyesore” hotel into a petrol station and M&S store have received support from hundreds of residents.

Man accused of murder asked aunt if she knew ‘how to stab someone’

03 March 2025
Man accused of murder asked aunt if she knew ‘how to stab someone’

A court has heard how a man accused of murdering his mother had told his aunt he knew how to cause “maximum damage”.

Teen tried to rape woman in park

03 March 2025
Teen tried to rape woman in park

The victim of a 16-year-old who tried to rape her says she feels like a “shell of her former self”.

Kent’s The Apprentice star opens up about facial scars

02 March 2025
Kent’s The Apprentice star opens up about facial scars

A Kent businessman starring in this year’s series of The Apprentice has explained how he got his facial scarring.

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Rejected plans for 200-space lorry park on green belt fields overturned

02 March 2025
Rejected plans for 200-space lorry park on green belt fields overturned

Rejected plans to build a 200-space, 24-hour lorry park on fields in the green belt near a motorway junction have been overturned following an appeal.

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