A Kent MP continued to calmly discuss foreign aid and China after his young daughter gate-crashed a live interview.

KCC has warned it could be forced to refuse any more child asylum seekers as soon as the end of this week, as it prepares to sue the Home Office.

Councils in Kent are facing a £20m shortfall in council tax as a result of householders struggling to pay bills during the pandemic.

Voters in Kent headed to the polls in 2001 and gave Labour a victory in seats they "thought we could never win.”

KCC has revealed the extent of the crisis it faces, including a young girl vanishing from a reception centre, as it prepares to sue the Home Office.

Our political editor Paul Francis takes a look at all the big news from national and local politics this week.

A travel agent has criticised the government's decision to remove Portugal from the green list of countries available to visit without isolating.

A community development forum has been awarded £50,000 to shape the future of a disused shop which has been closed for months.

A council wants to invest more than £11 million to reduce its carbon output.

The Kent Association for Headteachers chairman has launched a scathing attack on the government after it announced £1.4bn of pupil catch-up cash.

A huge Kent-based fruit farm hosted the international trade minister to discuss government plans for a post-Brexit free-trade deal with India.

A grandmother is preparing to take a council to court for the second time over its approval of a caravan park next door.

Our political editor Paul Francis takes a look at all the big news from national and local politics this week.

A large-scale meeting of every councillor on the county authority has been likened to a famous exam scene from The Inbetweeners.

Furious residents have been left frustrated after it took almost a month to empty overflowing bins prompting fears of vermin running wild.

It was billed as political box office and didn't disappoint but what were the main points from Dominic Cummings' mammoth eight-hour testimony?

A campaign to change the law inspired by a Kent mum who took her own life before her bullying ex was jailed has been raised in parliament.

It is all change as a new leader of Tunbridge Wells Borough Council and a new mayor have been elected.

Dominic Cummings has apologised for the failures to deal with the pandemic and claimed the PM thought it was 'a scare story'.

The National Trust has submitted altered plans to build a car park on a greenbelt field, with the number of spaces and land to be used reduced.