A&E doctor: 'We're failing patients'

The emergency department at Medway Maritime Hospital has been condemned as “dangerously unsafe” by a top consultant.

Flytipper Lee Terry ordered to pay £2,000 for dumping asbestos in Rainham

Flytipper Lee Terry has been ordered by a court to pay more than £2,000 after dumping lethal asbestos sheeting between two houses in Rainham.

Lorry overturns on M2

A lorry driver has escaped unhurt after his vehicle overturned in a crash with two cars on the M2.

Huguenot heritage centre on its way

The £5m project to create a Huguenot museum in Rochester has been kick-started with a grant from the Heritage Lottery Fund.

Agents advertise home... with tenant laid to rest inside

A lettings agency has apologised to a grieving family after they advertised a pensioner's home to rent - as he still lay dead in his bedroom.

Double delivery as baby arrives with the shopping

Paramedics determined to deliver something after missing a mother's home birth put away her shopping when a Sainsbury's van arrived moments later.

10p difference at the pumps - just a mile apart

Motorists have welcomed plans for signs displaying fuel prices which could put an end to huge differences between prices at the pumps.

Shock as hospital sends wrong records to family

A mum who requested medical records for her daughter - who's recovering from a life-threatening brain disease - was horrified to be sent a stranger's.

Rodney the parrot

Rodney the parrot has ruffled a few feathers among even the most ardent of royalists - after whistling God Save the Queen all day long.

Crowbat thugs grab disabled boys' van

Second brutal rape in Kent town in 19 days

Schoolgirls snatched by park pervert

Woman raped after being grabbed by gang

On the run gunman caught in dawn raid