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08 July 2015
An exclusion zone has been thrown around a construction site after Home Guard phosphorous bombs were unearthed... seven decades on.
07 July 2015
A war veteran proudly took his place at Medway’s Armed Forces Day parade thanks to the loan of a mobility scooter.
01 July 2015
The Prince of Wales is today attending a ceremony to commemorate 200 years of Gurkha service to Britain.
01 July 2015
A new memorial to honour the Gurkhas in their support to the UK in Folkestone will be unveiled by a royal and Ab Fab actress Joanna Lumley.
28 June 2015
Neighbours knew him as the smart, unassuming gentleman next door, but there was more to Roy Homard than met the eye.
27 June 2015
Armed Forces Day events are taking place across Kent this weekend.
25 June 2015
Fancy getting up close to military hardware including tanks, guns and even a helicopter? Boys’ toys with a difference will at the Great Lines.
24 June 2015
A single punch from a boxing 86-year-old was enough to make a knife-wielding thug think twice.
18 June 2015
A First World War propeller that was stolen from a shipwreck and turned into a coffee table has been handed to the Navy after being seized by police.
12 June 2015
Leading figures in health, law, education and policing are among those to receive recognition for their services in the Queen's honours list.
12 June 2015
Anthony Harrison left his job and family to fight Isis in Syria, and soon found himself exchanging fire with the militants alongside Kurdish soldiers.
10 June 2015
The historic Broadstairs Dickens Festival is back, celebrating the author's relationship with the seaside town in costume, music and merriment.
05 June 2015
Gurkhas based in Kent were this week granted a new role within the army's air assault rapid response force in their 200th year serving Britain.
04 June 2015
The Royal British Legion has distanced itself from a Britain First Facebook post shared by a Kent branch.
29 May 2015
Lord Wellington may have not quite disappeared from his former home after a visitor snapped his likeness in topiary.
28 May 2015
A security guard drove a Second World War explosive to his friend's door after forgetting the device was in his boot for six months.
27 May 2015
One hundred years to the day of the explosion on board HMS Princess Irene and the loss of 352 lives, mystery still surrounds the tragedy.
27 May 2015
As the Island remembers the 100th anniversary of the Princess Irene disaster today, Peter Cook and Lewis Dyson look back on that fateful day.
26 May 2015
A suspected explosive device has been discovered in the boot of a car in a quiet residential close.
26 May 2015
A section of Margate main sands has been reopened after a suspicious package was found in the sand.
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