He’s saved motorists hundreds of millions of pounds – now Kent’s Howard Cox is vowing to rip up ULEZ if he succeeds at the polls next year.

Councillors have criticised the ‘pitiful’ fines handed out to utility companies causing unnecessary jams on the county’s roads.

A new late-night takeaway service has scaled back its delivery hours after neighbour concerns.

A former leader received two rounds of applause after criticising Kent County Council’s current top table.

A council’s 100% affordable housing development will be slashed by 80% over viability concerns as it enlists help from private developers to build it.

Popular annual events and key community services are facing cutbacks in support as a council aims to plug a £12m hole in its finances.

An attempt to halt proposals to offload eight of the county’s historic windmills has been defeated.

Top Tories have been accused of burying their heads in the sand by refusing to take plans to close waste centres off the table.

A Kent MP has raised the case of a teenager with severe epilepsy in parliament as she called for access to medicinal cannabis.

They may have no councillors at all but the Lib Dems certainly have high hopes in Medway, as Robert Boddy found out.

Parents say planned cuts to youth clubs will leave children with nowhere to go, and that they fear some will turn to crime.

A guru is ‘baffled’ at why the government isn’t doing more to help ‘well-run’ councils that have found themselves staring into the financial abyss.

A Kent MP says it’s time to find another solution to deal with asylum seekers after the Rwanda deal was ruled unlawful by Supreme Court judges.

Residents and their MP have urged the government to help them get a historic bridge fixed which they say would breathe new life into the town.

A local authority chief executive is retiring after working 40 years for the borough.

A council in financial turmoil has significantly reduced its money worries – but still has a steep hill to climb.

The election clock is ticking – but political editor Paul Francis questions whether the Tories have left it too late to halt their slide in the polls.

A cash-strapped council is proposing to sell off off its stock of windmills in a desperate bid to claw back funds.

A developer is appealing against the refusal of two housing developments close to an important bird habitat.

A council has been accused of “selling off the family silver” amid plans to place a 700-year-old medieval tower under the hammer.