Seafront traders thrown into “turmoil” by do-not-swim warnings on two Kent beaches fear they could remain in place for years.

An appeal has been launched after vandals left behind a trail of damage at a popular green space, including defacing a memorial bench.

The site of an abandoned seafront development should be turned into a wind farm to power thousands of homes, it has been suggested.

Five suspects – including a man in his 70s – have been arrested following a spree of restaurant and cafe break-ins.

Business owners have been warned after a crimewave with cafés and restaurants targeted in six locations.

Disturbing photos show the aftermath of a vandal-hit public toilet after a fire broke out.

Work has finally begun to remove a stretch of hated seafront hoardings around a now-scrapped controversial development site.

An award-winning visitor centre is to close due to rising costs and falling visitor numbers, bosses say.

Damning comments about one of Kent’s up-and-coming towns have sparked debate - after visitors called it dirty and run-down.

The parents of a young girl left devastated when her cancer returned hope her latest results mean she can take part in an anti-relapse clinical trial.

Furious residents say sewage tankers are “ruining” their quality of life by heading to a nearby treatment works “at all hours of the day and night”.

The Met Office has issued weather warnings which kick in from midnight tonight.

Emergency crews attended a blaze at a block of flats - believed to have been sparked by an electrical fault.

A development of 17 flats set to fill a “great big hole” in a town centre is due to be completed next year, bosses say.

A cyclist has been airlifted to hospital after a crash while riding in woodland.

An expert who led an investigation into baby deaths says families being told to prove liability by the trust shows a lack of compassion from the NHS.

Campaigners are celebrating after a developer’s last-ditch bid to build flats which would have changed a town’s skyline “forever” was snubbed.

A vehicle fire forced part of a motorway to close while it was extinguished.

The owner of a barber shop which was destroyed says he is ‘more determined than ever to make the business a success’

A faulty spotlight above the stage of a school theatre sparked a blaze that saw pupils evacuated.