Chatham Grammar School for Boys moves ahead with plan to admit girls after winning parents' support.

A teacher who admitted sex offences with a teenage girl has been told to expect a long term behind bars.

The selfless heroes of Kent have been praised at this year's Kent Charity Awards.

A fraud investigator with the NatWest bank was more than twice the legal drink-drive limit when he was pulled over by police.

Warnings have been issued that a batch of contaminated heroin is circulating across part of Kent after the deaths of two users.

Rush hour drivers faced delays on the M2 this morning after a lorry crashed into the central reservation in the early hours.

Our popular Cute Kids competition is in today's Medway Messenger with hundreds of youngsters looking for your vote

When a family row boiled over into violence, Andrew Barfoot deliberately drove a car at his own sister while out on licence for wounding a girlfriend.

A man's been remanded in custody after a raid on a newsagent's.

A house builder has been chosen to build a 1,300-home riverside community over the next 12 years.

A Kent MP has called for an urgent inquiry amid claims a delay in declaring his acceptance of Gills tickets breached anti-corruption rules.

A man shot in the leg through his front door is still in hospital more than a month after the incident.

A GP practice with more than 2,000 patients has been placed in special measures, following an inspection.

Two people were taken to hospital this morning after a crash between two cars on the M2.

A woman accused of stealing a five-figure sum from a football club has pleaded guilty.

A thug attacked a man in front of his children... just weeks after a public 'spat' with his partner on the Jeremy Kyle show.

A council leader is backing government plans to devolve powers over Sunday trading hours to local councils.

Hundreds of junior doctors across Medway are on a 48-hour strike from 8am today.

The jury in the UK's biggest gun smuggling trial has been shown dramatic video showing bags being unloaded from a boat before armed police descend.

A mother-of-two who grew six cannabis plants in her child’s bedroom has claimed she did not know it was illegal to cultivate the drug.