Families are being urged to take extra care with cooking tonight as firefighters walk out for four hours.

A travel services company has earned an exclusive long-term commercial contract with the national agent after buying a company for more than £2m.

Dozens of people are to lose their jobs in Kent after it was announced the remaining stores of rental chain Blockbuster are to close.

An electricity transformer that was due to travel through east Kent last weekend will now be moved this Saturday.

Firefighters were called after fire struck a roof at the Brockhill Park school near Hythe.

Police have searched a massage parlour called Pussycats today as part of an investigation into alleged trafficking and other offences.

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Homeless Alan Richardson has been sentenced to nearly eight years after groping a woman he was robbing at knifepoint.

Businesses in Folkestone are backing the plans for next year's airshow by sending their 'own' planes into the sky

A PC accused of pestering women for sex has told a court he texted a victim of crime about spending a night in bed - but said there was no "end goal".

A 318-tonne transformer - the length of six double decker buses - is still at Dover Docks, after a major operation to drive it through Kent stalled.

The former head honcho of Domino's Pizza is to become chief executive of Saga next year.

A baby was among four people hospitalised, after a fire broke out in a family home in Folkestone early this morning.

Glam rockers The Darkness are celebrating 10 years since the release of their debut album with a UK tour which arrives in Kent this week

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A thieving pub chef has avoided prison after running up £5,000 of debts after stealing his trusting grandmother's cheque book.

Firefighters were called to a reported chemical leak at the Channel Tunnel site at Cheriton, which turned out to be minor.

Crews tackle fire in Folkestone that ripped through kitchen this morning

Kent has seen its first rise in crime for five years as the chief constable reveals the force might no longer send officers to every offence.

A cocaine-fuelled lover has walked free after subjecting his girlfriend to several violent attacks 'because he wasn't ready to be a father'.