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Our political editor Paul Francis rounds up the latest goings on at Westminster and Kent County Council headquarters this week.
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As Kent MPs back the government's controversial Crime Bill here's why it's causing a stir.
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The number of children from less well-off backgrounds taking the Kent Test dropped last year, according to recent figures.
Can Labour win in the council elections in May? It revealed one of its campaigning points this week.
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Emergency planners to stand down airport as HGV 'checkpoint' from later this month.
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Emergency planners say lessons have been learned from major shutdown at Channel ports in December.
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The Department for Transport says it will not be maintaining Manston airport as an emergency lorry park after its six-month contract ends.
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Our political editor takes a look back as Nigel Farage pulls down the curtain on his political career.
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Council tax bills are soaring as authorities struggle to balance the books but is there any other way of raising money? We look at the options.
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Our political editor Paul Francis rounds up the latest goings on at Westminster and Kent County Council headquarters this week.
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Our political editor Paul Francis gives his analysis of the Chancellor's 2021 budget.
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Thousands of jobs and millions of pounds of investment are promised under plans to create a new free port in The Thames.
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Kent Police has written to schools in one area of Kent urging them to ensure children do not breach Covid restrictions when they return to school.
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The Home Secretary's proposal of life sentences for people smugglers won't work, claims the head of an asylum seeker charity.
There are calls to scrap this year's Kent Test for children hoping to go to grammar schools due to the disruption to learning caused by lockdown.
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Conservative county councillors who refused to back tax hike have now been reinstated to party.
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Teacher assessment to replace exams and Boris sets out a cautionary route map - we review the week in politics.
Teaching unions downplay concerns over grade inflation after the government confirms teacher assessment will be used for pupils' marks.
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A new way of calculating council tax would save hard pressed families hundreds of pounds a year and a campaign group wants it adopted.
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Councils have had to draw millions of pounds from their rainy day funds - and it's feared without help they may be in serious financial trouble.
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