An investment fund using taxpayers money has backed a technology company which predicts it can save thousands of lives by detecting airborne asbestos.

MPs say a proposal to erect around 70 massive pylons across part of Kent would blight several villages.

A subsea engineering firm cut staff numbers by nearly half amid a dramatic decline in the oil and gas industry but is heading back to profitability.

Down an unassuming street with the quaint cafes and shops sits a half-a-billion-pound company drilling major gas fields across Africa and Europe.

A fast-growing IT firm has moved to a new premises in the county as it aims to double in size by the end of the year.

In a high security annex of a TV studios, more than £1.5 billion of revenue goes through the wires of Kent’s largest data centre each year.

A former group managing director of Kwik Fit has been made chairman of a loss-making electronic component distributor.

A business park, which employs more than 1,500 people, could be set to expand - creating a new link to the motorway.

A fire protection company has been taken over by an investment firm listed on the London Stock Exchange backed by Conservative peer Lord Ashcroft.

An independent telecoms company has completed its third takeover in three months after securing a £30 million finance deal with the bank.

Councillors have again approved plans for an extensive medical campus set to create 3,300 jobs.

A £90,000 loan helped two friends launch a water treatment business which is attracting a flood of export deals from around the world.

A little-known manufacturer is ready to go global with its life-saving product after quietly going about its work for 20 years.

Councillors are expected to give the green light to a large medical campus for the second time, set to bring more than 3,800 jobs.

A crop research institute has hired a new managing director a year after it was rescued in a takeover.

Swedish power company Vattenfall is developing a scheme that will bring the existing and operational wind farm at Margate closer to the coast by 4km

A consortium has secured £1.9 million of funding for student-led crop studies.

The new owners of one of Kent’s most successful science parks will forge closer ties with London investors, according to its managing director.

A private hospital is opening its fifth operating theatre after a £250,000 investment.

An electronic parts distributor has swung back into operating profit after overstretching itself on sustainable energy projects put it in the red.