A Conservative candidate has won a by-election by just ONE vote, making him one of Kent's youngest councillors.

Residents and rail staff have been praised for their quick thinking when a late-night train derailed after hitting a herd of cows near a Kent village.

A crooked businessman who was jailed after making £45m selling bogus bomb detectors has now been banned from becoming the director of a company.

A wildlife foundation has taken steps to protect a rare species of big cat by flying a leopard to a breeding programme in America

Despite improvements, a hospital trust remains in special measures following a week-long inspection.

Plans to build a new brewery in the county are a step closer after ale lovers pledged more than £1 million of their beer money for the project.

Kent's motorways were shut for almost 1,000 hours over a summer of travel misery, as it's revealed costly traffic-cutting measures are NOT being used.

Residents are being warned to look out for two young men who are pressuring people into unwanted tree surgeon work

Blue badge holders say they are fed up of lazy and selfish motorists using designated spaces at a supermarket

Police are hunting two robbery suspects who barged into the house of an elderly man, pushed him to the floor and rummaged through his drawers.

Police are appealing for information after a man was approached in a park late at night and threatened in an attempted robbery.

A missing dementia sufferer has been found safe and well after a police search.

A man charged with sex offences against young girls in two parts of Kent has been found dead.

A Kent man has died after the bike he was riding was in a crash with a car in Sussex.

A Kent village has shown its support for the people of France after more than 120 people were killed in suspected terrorist attacks overnight.

Channel services into France are all still operating from Kent despite the devastating events that happened in Paris on Friday night

Qatar Airways is investigating after a Team GB Paralympian says she was forced to drag herself from a flight after being left on board.

A serving prisoner who went on the run after escaping from a court was nabbed four weeks later - while casually enjoying a pint in a pub.

A council chief executive is leaving after six years to take up a new job in the private sector.

Yet another deadline date for completing a multi-million pound tower block refurbishment has passed with no sign of the work ending.