A cruel mum burned her five-year-old son with cigarettes and gloated in a text message: “I just smacked him so hard he flew across the room.”

Plans to build 44 homes on an abandoned concrete-crushing site will spark "traffic chaos" in the area, opponents say.

An independent butcher says “making everything” in-house is the secret to success in a struggling industry rife with job cuts

Thirty years ago, a Kent district witnessed its worst peace-time disaster as ferry passengers fell to their deaths.

Council inspectors have ordered the parents of a four-year-old boy with severe autism to remove his trampoline and swing set from a communal garden.

The family of a popular business owner who has been told he has just weeks left to live say he will be “missed by everyone”.

Residents in a block of flats undergoing an upwards extension to add new homes have hit out at the works likened to living on a building site.

Whitstable’s long running oyster festival is back - but it’s been a rollercoaster ride over the last 30 years our columnist remembers.

A village school which was “left in ruins” after a fire has received the highest grade from Ofsted.

A scrap between two boys at school led to one woman kicking, punching and pulling the hair of a mother - and all in front of other youngsters.

Crews spent more than four hours tackling a straw fire in a field after the blaze caused problems for motorists travelling along the M2.

Work is underway to knock down outdated council flats dating back to the late 1950s to make way for 46 new homes.

A cyber attack has postponed the expansion of a contactless payment scheme to extra railway stations across Kent.

A controversial scheme which bans motorists driving down streets around schools during certain hours could soon be rolled out to more locations.

Two people have been arrested on suspicion of stealing large quantities of meat and cheese and offering it for sale in a busy town centre.

Police are at the scene of a crash where a child has reportedly been hit by a car on a busy main road.

A man who was airlifted to hospital after a digger tipped over has died, police have confirmed.

A popular theatre will not reopen until after May as contractors continue working to repair the building.

Four Russian vessels were watched closely by the Royal Navy as they passed through the English Channel.

The site of an abandoned seafront development has been left in a “mess” and must be cleared immediately, a councillor says.