Festival season is continuing into September, with one of the year's most enticing events taking place just a short hop from Kent.

From the world's first indoor football park to The BFG, puzzles and trails, we round up the activities to do across Kent through the summer.

Meet the UK’s largest herd of African elephants right on your doorstep in Kent.

A free family day out with two-wheeled fun is on offer at Betteshanger Country Park's Bonkers Bike Festival this weekend.

A riot of colour greets visitors to Great Comp Gardens for its summer show at the peak of its season this weekend.

Tickets are still available for a once in a lifetime trip on board the luxurious sister train of the Venice Simplon-Orient train from Maidstone.

Former London Mayor Ken Livingstone and Gruffalo creator Axel Scheffler are among the stars lining up for this year's Folkestone Book Festival.

We don’t want you to waste a minute of summer: here's a jam-packed guide to tip-top days out along the Kent coast.

These are some of the hidden treasures, strange facts and pagan secrets you can uncover with a new tour.

A museum in Kent will now be free to enter in a welcome bid to boost tourism.

You're just two hours away from a complete change of pace

A visiting circus has given a reporter the chance to take her own life in her hands.

The Who frontman Roger Daltrey described opening a new railway station as "wonderful" to come back 60 years after his first visit.

A weekend of fishy festivities will take place in Folkestone with the annual trawler race, a funfair and fish pie competition.

Steam engines, classic cars and a Spitfire are part of the fun at a popular Weald of Kent Steam Rally this weekend.

Canine capers for all dogs great and small with Paws at the Castle in some very regal Kent surroundings.

Dreamland's biggest attraction is out of action at the peak of the summer season.

Get away from it all without leaving Kent - and no roughing it required - by trying champing in a church, to glamping in the countryside.

Keepers are over the moon at the birth of a baby giraffe at a Kent wildlife park - the first one born there for eight years.

The largest collection of classic aircraft and military vehicles yet will line up for the eighth annual Combined Ops show at Headcorn this summer.