Remember when Bluewater opened? It's 15 years old today... but its boss vows it will never be home to a Poundland.

Kent car dealers are predicting huge sales growth this year as the new car market moves up a gear.

An air ventilator manufacturer will be able to double its growth this year after reaching a deal with its bank to keep cashflow running.

The rains have subsided but the effects on businesses of the floods will last for a long time, at huge cost, as one badly-hit pub is finding out.

The front of a pet shop damaged in an arson attack 14 months ago has yet to be replaced after it was refused planning permission.

Sheerness Town Team has scrapped its controversial trial closure of the high street after a backlash from traders.

A management group is calling on traders to put their money behind a project to improve the standard of the city centre.

Clarks has now set a date for the closure of its Ashford town centre store

With 55 days to go, the Deal Card has been unveiled to business owners hoping to keep people shopping locally.

An American explorer who reached the North Pole and another who died in the Antarctic are set to have roads named after them in Dartford.

Homeless people are gaining work experience through charity Porchlight working with Asda in Broadstairs on a pilot programme.

About 30 new jobs will be created when a 99p Stores shop opens in the old Comet store in Gravesend tomorrow.

The threat of an appeal hearing did not prevent Maidstone councillors from saying No to Tesco.

A trial closure of part of the town centre has resulted in a backlash from traders who say they are losing business

A new Screwfix outlet has opened for tradesmen.

Having won awards for its high street, things could be changing in Deal with the arrival of high-speed trains and a £40m revamp of a former colliery.

Retailers say they fear for their livelihoods if plans to move a town market go ahead.

With councillors due to decide whether to accept plans for an £85m shopping park off the M20, campaigners say it could damage town-centre retailers.

At least 14 jobs will be created after planners gave the green light to a budget chain to open a new supermarket.

Cafe owner offering reward for return of a cartoon burger sign that hung outside his cafe and went missing one night