This week's Messenger Comment considers the decision by Meopham School to consult parents over becoming a grammar.

Our photographers have been visiting dozens of schools across Canterbury and Swale to capture children's first days at school.

Our photographers have been visiting dozens of schools across Dartford and Gravesend to capture children's first days at school.

A group of grammar schoolboys have been excluded after a video appeared online of them dropping a brick on a squirrel and setting fire to it.

The green light has been given to plans to build a new regional headquarters for a property developer on the site of a garden city.

A family is demanding to know why doctors failed to help their daughter, who died in A&E after a 27-hour wait for treatment.

Traffic is clearing around the Dartford Crossing following huge delays which saw people trapped on the M25 overnight.

Six people are set to appear in crown court after being arrested in connection with a string of vehicle thefts across Kent.

Mick Jagger interview: A new Rolling Stones film following the band's ground-breaking concert in Cuba comes to Kent for one night only this weekend

Delays are easing after a lorry and car crashed just before the Dartford tunnel.

A teenager has scooped thousands on the lottery - but can't even remember buying the ticket.

Officers were called to a footbridge over a busy motorway due to concerns for the safety of a woman.

Police have issued an appeal to find Brian Warrington

The Middle Eastern financial backers of plans for a Paramount resort in Kent have bought shares in a City stock broker.

Firefighters continue to tackle a hay bale blaze which has been burning since Sunday afternoon.

Firefighters were delayed getting to a blaze last night because parked cars were blocking the road.

A little boy fighting cancer for a second time has been flown out to America for treatment that could save his life.

An intricate mosaic has been discovered during a restoration project at a library

Armed police will be deployed at locations including Bluewater, Canterbury Cathedral and the Port of Dover from today.

Emergency services were called to a crash on the A2 involving a car which hit the central reservation.