With people finding that money is tight, a Dover woman is coming to their aid – with swishing!

A song written by an east Kent woman and sung by a Dover schoolgirl could feature in the First World War centenary commemorations next year.

A man has been taken to hospital after reportedly being hit by a vehicle in a busy street this morning.

Customs officers should be doing more to stop the smuggling of cheap cigarettes and tobacco into the country through Dover, according to MPs.

The mother of a teenager who died after a crash with a van is aiming to become the figurehead of a campaign to get more respect for cyclists.

Freedom of Information request has revealed that Kent County Council was aware of plans for three exploratory bore holes since May 2012.

Dover Grammar School for Girls has been awarded Fair Trade Schools Status.

Tim Waggott has been confirmed as chief executive of the Port of Dover.

Dover’s controversial Big Screen will finally be dismantled next month, the Mercury can reveal.

Campaigners against the closure and merger of Sure Start children’s centres in Kent have handed their 2,000-signature petition to the county council.

Two managers with the Stagecoach bus company in Dover have gone back to basics this week as part of the National Customer Service Week.

A hotel chain that pulled out of a redevelopment in Dover is now proposing what it describes as an “innovative" partnership with the council.

Border Force officers at Dover have seized 58 kilos of cocaine and two kilos of heroin said to be worth millions of pounds on the street.

An elderly woman has been injured in the latest crash involving a foreign lorry at the Whitfield roundabout on the A2 near Dover.

A former church that was virtually destroyed by fire may become a place of worship again.

An attacker who launched a frenzied assault on a policeman with a machete threatened a judge as he was led away to a 10-year jail term.

How many councils does it take to switch on a light by a footpath? Three, apparently, plus a building developer.

People who spit in the street should be given on-the-spot fines, according to a Dover councillor.

Eleven carnival courts and a couple of of decorated cars took part in Dover's illuminated carnival this evening.

A controlled explosion was carried out at Dover this afternoon after an old hand grenade was uncovered near a housing estate.