The owner of a Kent hotel has admitted it is “rundown” - after a homeless guest said he would “rather sleep on the street” than stay another night.

Plans to redevelop a former drinks factory site have been given the green light for a second time - and are set to create about 250 jobs.

New homes for a huge “garden town” could be built at a rate of 300 a year as a council seeks to strike a funding deal with the government.

A depraved former councillor and teacher at a prestigious school who repeatedly grabbed pupils’ genitals has died in prison.

Drug-dealing brothers who used an encrypted phone system to organise industrial-scale deals have been ordered to repay almost half a million pounds.

The latest phase of a controversial development on the home of a former Army barracks looks set to be given the go-ahead.

A motorcyclist has been taken to hospital after skidding off his bike in the rain.

Bosses of a seaside tourist attraction have pleaded with customers for backing after recent storms “devastated" small businesses.

Plans to create 86 new homes at an abandoned office complex have been scrapped – as the site hits the market for £4 million.

Rock band Enter Shikari left Kent fans on a cliffhanger on the final night of their intimate UK tour.

A charity has lodged plans to transform an empty hotel into “emergency accommodation” for the homeless.

A teenager and a 34-year-old woman have been arrested after police seized drugs from a town centre property.

A drug user who called 999 after he was stabbed at home was arrested after forgetting his stash was hidden inside the property.

We met two filmmakers who have moved from London to Kent and are producing a documentary they hope will prove DFLs and locals have ‘more in common’.

An entrepreneur parked his £250,000 supercar in a town centre while shopping - only to be sent a video of someone smashing it up moments later.

Plans for a town’s first Aldi store are set to be approved for a second time - despite a legal threat from rival discounter Lidl.

Special schools have threatened legal action against the county council over “deeply flawed” proposed changes to how pupils are allocated places.

Police have released CCTV images after a doorman reportedly suffered leg injuries during a fracas at a town centre bar.

The owner of an Indian takeaway says he is winding up his “cut-throat” business, to the dismay of customers.

Hundreds of residents have signed a petition against plans for Kent’s biggest solar farm amid fears the scheme will cause “irreversible damage”.