A former biology teacher is blazing a trail in the world of snails... after becoming the country's first ever 'snail sommelier'.

A teenage entrepreneur who has re-invented the light switch and plug socket has started what he hopes is his final crowdfunding campaign.

A vegetarian cafe has become Maidstone’s first, fully vegan eatery.

A discount shopping mall has been sold for more than £9 million to a firm which manages retail sites across the country.

An apple and pear producer is looking for 500 full time workers for this year's harvest, having planted the largest pear orchard in Kent for decades.

Businesses in construction and financial sectors are proving it is not just young tech firms who are liking Facebook and Twitter.

Officers have been criticised for recommending approval for a controversial development before a public consultation has ended.

Hundreds of jobseekers have been queuing round the block as the search begins for Dreamland staff.

Airport supporters gathered at the passenger terminal of Manston as the Conservatives presented a five-point proposal to save the airport.

People living near a solar farm can buy bonds in the development after a scheme was launched this week.

County Council leader Paul Carter calls on company to put its cables undergound instead of using 50m high pylons.

Fashion and home retailer Next has announced plans for a new town centre store, it has today been confirmed.

Exhibition centre Glow – which has hosted boxing matches broadcast on TV – will close after just three years at the shopping centre.

The election campaign got underway in Kent with a hustings in Rochester and Strood, the focus of last year's hotly contested by-election.

A market research agency has been appointed by a national polling company to conduct telephone interviews ahead of the general election.

Weight-loss pill manufacturer Forza Supplements has made it into several major retailers with the help of reality TV stars.

Demolition companies are being sought to work alongside developers to teaer down Dover's biggest eyesore - Burlington House.

Bosses insist English Heritage's split with the government today is not an example of ministers “washing their hands” of funding historical sites.

A post office will be closed by the end of April leaving residents without a town centre service and now campaigners are calling for action.

A Ramsgate jeweller – who owns Bleak House in Broadstairs – left court with a grim warning despite being acquitted of a race-hate crime.