From a people smuggler caught after 28 years on the run, to a burglar found the next day on a stolen bike, here are tales of prison escapes in Kent.

From blocks of flats to beauty salons and Wetherspoon pubs, several of our county's former police stations now have a new lease of life.

Every picture tells a story as we look back through our archive at the storm that devastated Kent in October 1987.

An old prison, a dockyard and a country estate in Kent have all featured in a Netflix series over the years.

Chances are you drive by a former workhouse every day - we take a look back at the grim reality for generations of the county's poorest people.

Take a look back in time and fast forward to the present as we go back into the archives to look at Kent's hospitals through the ages.

Everybody knows Kent is The Garden of England but most people have forgotten about the time we nearly lost our prestigious crown to the North.

A speculative dig on the county's gravel pits once led to an amazing discovery about the early history of mankind and the company they kept.

A school head's view that single sex education is best has opened up a familiar debate.

Frances Kidder was the last woman to be hanged in public after being found guilty of the murder of her step-daughter.

To mark Black History Month, we have taken a look at some of Kent's most influential black figures.

More than a century ago the county welcomed thousands of people in a single day, as they fled from their war-torn country.

Kent Rolling Stones tour guide Ken Pimm is thinking of packing up his driving boots, so should Mick and Keith come home to take the wheel?

Waterstones' longest-serving manager has told of visits from famous authors such as JK Rowling during his 35 years at a Kent store.

An organisation is offering supported housing to help LGBTQ+ homeless people escape dangerous situations such as 'survival sex'.

A former landlord recalls the night his pub was destroyed by an IRA bomb at the height of the Troubles.

From the MP owning Jamaican plantations to the architect who designed Delhi's capital, we delve into the county's colonialist past.

Kent's strangest folk tales were recorded by Thomas Ingoldsby in the Ingoldsby Legends. But who was this mysterious friend of Charles Dickens?

We delve into the colourful history of the county's formidable smugglers.

What's life been like behind bars at one of Kent’s most secure prisons during the Covid crisis? We went to find out.