The Department of Health and Social Care has said that initial findings from a huge testing operation have not detected the South African variant.

Ex-Ukip leader Nigel Farage has joined a celebrity messaging app after quitting politics.

Our political editor takes a look back as Nigel Farage pulls down the curtain on his political career.

Council tax bills are soaring as authorities struggle to balance the books but is there any other way of raising money? We look at the options.

After a political career spanning 30 years Nigel Farage says the moment is right to leave, and it's for good.

Our political editor Paul Francis rounds up the latest goings on at Westminster and Kent County Council headquarters this week.

An NHS report into the conditions at an asylum centre has been revealed.

Our political editor Paul Francis gives his analysis of the Chancellor's 2021 budget.

Thousands of jobs and millions of pounds of investment are promised under plans to create a new free port in The Thames.

The Home Secretary's proposal of life sentences for people smugglers won't work, claims the head of an asylum seeker charity.

Long-awaited improvement works to a town centre bus station will begin next month, with bus stops relocated while it's out of action.

Conservative county councillors who refused to back tax hike have now been reinstated to party.

A variety of measures will be introduced on polling days in May as Covid-secure elections are planned, including a ban on door-knocking by candidates.

Teacher assessment to replace exams and Boris sets out a cautionary route map - we review the week in politics.

A crucial Town Hall budget was passed by just one vote.

Another councillor has walked out on a town council complaining he had been 'gagged'.

A new way of calculating council tax would save hard pressed families hundreds of pounds a year and a campaign group wants it adopted.

Councils have had to draw millions of pounds from their rainy day funds - and it's feared without help they may be in serious financial trouble.

A housing campaigner is to stand at May's borough council elections

A Kent council's Local Plan consultation could be extended after councillors wrote to the Secretary of State asking for a review.