A backbench committee has told leaders to rethink its decision against carrying out a compulsory purchase of the airport.

County councillors have backed a scheme to ease traffic congestion around a notorious town centre gyratory system.

A strategic masterplan has incorporated the site as an airport, despite councillors voting not to try to buy it last year.

Venezuelan and other foreign currency in brown envelopes has been posted through the doors of a number of councillors.

Government minister Francis Maude was highly impressed with Ramsgate Leisure Centre on his visit today.

Ukip MP for Rochester and Strood, Mark Reckless, aims to reveal why he left the Conservatives in a public meeting held in Dover this Friday.

A solar farm the size of nearly 150 football pitches has been approved on 212 acres of Kent land.

Campaigners against a development on Grade II listed land joined arms in protest against a planning application

Fishermen from Kent have called on political parties to give them a chance asking for pilot schemes to cut wastage and discards created by EU laws.

A fisherman due to talk at a meeting organised by Ukip who launched into an offensive tirade after attacks at Paris magazine did not turn up to speak.

The eight-week public consultation for Thanet council's local plan opens today.

On a ministerial visit Nick Boles MP has said that apprenticeships are "the way forward" for young people to get into work and aid economic recovery.

A councillor was kicked out of Ukip because of remarks made about black people, it's been claimed.

Kent's Royston has joined artists around the world by responding to the attack on French satirical magazine, Charlie Hebdo, with a cartoon.

Libraries in Kent are set to be run by a charitable trust under county council plans unveiled today.

Tracey Crouch and Damian Green met with a government minister after City Link went into administration, leading to redundancies.

A former mayor has been expelled from his party for alleged disloyalty.

More than 800 "lethal highs" have been been permanently removed from shop shelves following a series of raids in the summer.

A proposal for a construction base which aims to create 47 jobs at the Port of Ramsgate will be discussed at a public meeting.

The site of a large Victorian medicine factory is set to transform into an £80 million housing development providing 400 new homes.