Three generations of women have kept a family firm going through "blood, sweat and tears" and now they have in the running for a business award.

The Championship clash between Kent and Essex will be the first match to count towards the newly-launched Mike Denness Challenge Shield.

The fifth Women Mean Business free event is at East Kent College in Broadstairs on Wednesday, April 23.

Prince Richard, the Duke of Gloucester, cut a ribbon to open the Kent Institute of Medicine and Surgery after taking a tour of the new hospital.

Hadlow College has been announced as the preferred bidder to take over part of a struggling college group.

A Royal Mail sorting office could be reopened just months after it was closed, the Kent Messenger can exclusively reveal.

Nurse Plus is looking to expand to the north of England after forecasting turnover of £35.2m, up 37%.

This is the scene of devastation after the wall of a house collapsed into a garage.

A husband and wife have won a £50,000 cash injection after becoming the first Asian couple to secure an investment on hit BBC TV show Dragon’s Den.

The preferred bidders have been announced to run a college which is being broken up after amassing £16m of debt.

A legal service designed to make the process of divorce easier is now available all over Kent.

More businesses in Kent are looking to expand, as figures show the economy is growing at its fastest rate since 2007.

Commuters will be able to use their phones in tunnels thanks to a new deal involving two UK mobile operators.

Medway’s new University Technical College is set to be built at Chatham Docks after the government agreed to buy the site.

Plans to turn the old Tollgate Hotel into a BP petrol station, M&S Food and a McDonald’s have been approved.

A college principal earns £15,000 more than the Prime Minister - even though Ofsted says management has worsened since she started.

A motorway service station has opened a workspace for business people to work on the move.

Planners have given the go-ahead for work at a former power station site as part of a project to channel electricity under the sea from Kent.

A bright idea or not? Environmental groups claim the wrong land is being earmarked for host of solar panel farms in the county.

An old pub in Northfleet is to be turned into accommodation for the homeless.