Charities who challenged the government’s plan to send asylum seekers arriving on UK shores to Rwanda say they will continue to fight to stop it.

Kent County Council has spent spiralling sums on agency staff over the last four years in the face of a recruitment crisis across the sector.

A councillor has announced she has changed parties two months after stepping down from Labour.

A decision has been delayed again on plans to redevelop a riverside site for hundreds of flats over concerns for a busy junction nearby.

A shock new poll predicts just two Conservative MPs in Kent would hang on to their seats at a General Election amid a Labour landslide.

A teenager is among the dead from yesterday's Channel tragedy, with four people still missing, it has been revealed.

Asylum seekers could be accommodated in a budget holiday camp while they wait for their application documents to be processed.

Nigel Farage's threatened comeback will scare the Tories but he's right about Brexit, writes political editor Paul Francis.

A proposal to demolish a historic building to make way for an apartment block has been agreed, despite accusations of greed by councillors.

A council has rejected a 'ground-breaking' motion to formally protect nature in its constitution.

A parish councillor received nearly half of the vote in a by-election held following the sudden death of a community stalwart.

Nurses are not the shock troops of the socialist revolution and media scare stories can only go so far, writes columnist Rhys Griffiths.

Plans to open a doctors' surgery at a controversial development of hundreds of homes on a greenfield site have been axed.

A retreat by the government on controversial housebuilding targets has been given a cautious welcome by council leaders and Kent MPs.

Despite wailing about Kent being full the county actually needs more houses, wrote Rhys Griffiths, now, as targets are axed, he responds to readers.

Government policy on grammars is not clear, but there are signs of unease with the effectiveness of the system, writes political editor Paul Francis.

Rishi Sunak says proposals to end the current legislation that does not permit new selective schools will not be brought forward.

Former Labour MP Paul Clark has appeared in court this morning to plead guilty to downloading and distributing more than 1,000 indecent images.

Councillors accused of breaking rules by discussing tactics for an upcoming debate were busted when the email thread copied in the council clerk.

A veteran council leader who has been in charge of an authority for a decade is to retire from politics aged 84.