The votes have been cast - now counting is under way for the county council election as almost 400 candidates vye for 81 seats.

The finishing touches are being put to a Kent museum ahead of its grand reopening on Saturday.

Voters go to the polls today (Thursday) to choose their county councillors - here's a last minute round up of the candidates

Thousands of voters will be heading for the polling stations today - here's what you need to know about the local elections.

Voters go to the polls tomorrow for the Kent County Council election.

Children at Ripplevale School are enjoying a £15,000 roundabout after winning a competition in one of our papers.

Conservative MP Craig Mackinlay has been re-chosen to contest the South Thanet seat in the general election

A Masonic Lodge in Kent is opening its doors to visitors in a bid to shake off its secret society image and attract new members

Demands have been made for a new acute hospital and medical school at a public meeting.

A wildlife park in Kent has announced the opening date of its second site as 2018.

Air raid sirens and the sound of gunfire will echo through Sandwich this weekend as the town hosts a new three-day event.

Family of a five-year-old girl feared she had been killed after a pensioner who ignored a red light drove straight into her.

Allegations concerning the Conservatives' South Thanet elections expenses in 2015 have been passed to the CPS, it's been confirmed.

The power of shopping locally has been proven by the money given to community groups by a supermarket.

Local poet Nick Matthew's heartfelt prose for building society's Kent branch

A baton-wielding thug is the latest jailed after a town's riots.

A Kent mum and dad will see their daughter in hospital after her husband punched a shark that was attacking her.

A retired vicar remained defiant today when he wed his young partner despite a Church of England ruling.

A spine-chilling technology company with the largest library of venom in the UK has partnered with a drug discovery company for pioneering research.

A developer of anti-cancer technology has been bought in a multi-million pound deal by an Israeli business.