A chartered accountants has promoted a respected colleague who formerly worked for a major UK company.

Bosses at a mental health unit have applied to build a higher perimeter fence to stop patients escaping over the top.

A man's been released on bail after a woman complained she was followed into the ladies' toilets at a popular bar and groped.

A man's been arrested on suspicion of making threats to kill after an armed stand-off in a quiet street.

Maidstone boyband member Josh Zare safe for another week.

People in Maidstone are waking up to gale-force winds and driving rain.

A funeral parlour is pioneering a scheme to send pacemakers removed from the dead to be re-used in the developing world.

An artist motivated by the gun death of a friend's son has X-rayed dozens of cinema's most iconic guns in a bid to "deglamorise" the weapons.

A church choirmaster of more than 20 years has been suspended after being formally accused of persecuting a woman.

A group of Lithuanian men are back in court on Friday accused of murdering a young waiter in an attack above an Italian restaurant.

Big cats could be on the loose in Kent... as it's revealed more than 20 sightings have been reported to police in the last three years.

Both Kent acts survived last night flash vote in the X Factor and are hoping to sail through tonight's results show too.

Shoppers were filmed in between the sheets today, when The One Show came to town.

A crash has closed the A274 Maidstone Road in Headcorn

Music megastar Sir Paul McCartney enjoyed a Hard Day's Bite... when he racked up a bill of more than £100 at a Kent vegetarian cafe.

A 20-year-old woman has been treated by paramedics after a blaze broke out in a hairdresser's this afternoon.

A council worker died after he left a hotel drinking binge through the wrong door and plunged down a flight of stairs in his wheelchair.

Changes are being made to Kent's 11-plus system from next year in a bid to make the test more tutor-proof.

A Kent prison housing about 90 female inmates is to shut under proposals announced by the government today.

A four car pile-up closed part of Sutton Road in Maidstone this morning.