An inquest has been halted so the possibility of a criminal prosecution over the death of a teacher who died after giving birth can be examined.

Survival expert Bear Grylls says scouts in Yalding are heroes for their actions in the Christmas Eve flood.

Eliza Doolittle, Maximo Park and Scouting for Girls are among the latest names added to the bill for this year's music festival.

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

Sickly smells coming from a deodorant factory could be a thing of the past.

Firearms officers have arrested a man on suspicion of robbery after reports a woman had been mugged by an armed attacker.

Fire crews have cut two women free from a car believed to have ended up on its side after a crash this morning.

The memory of a late Kent Police offer was celebrated with a charity football tournament on Saturday.

Danny Alexander, chief secretary to the treasury, rejected suggestions there is no money to improve flood defences in a visit to Yalding yesterday.

Lib Dem politician Danny Alexander will be in the village from 3.50pm to speak with residents about flooding.

A fresh bid for a grammar school annex in west Kent is on the cards just months after the government rejected two rival applications.

A Tonbridge man was arrested at the weekend, following an afternoon drugs raid.

Kent's Winter Olympics champion Lizzy Yarnold is calling for the Royal Mail to do a U-turn and paint a post box in her hometown gold.

A woman had cash snatched out of her hand at a cashpoint in Tonbridge.

Just a few months after launching, a luxury fashion and beauty company – founded in Kent – is being stocked in John Lewis stores across the UK.

Ongoing roadworks mean one lane remains closed on the Maidstone-bound stretch of Detling Hill.

Properties in Lamberhurst and Goudhurst are at risk of flooding.

County council taxpayers are likely to be hit with a hike in bills as a three-year freeze looks set to come to an end today.

A lorry and car collided on the M20 this morning.

A potential witness is urged to come forward after staff at a Halifax bank were robbed by a man holding a black hand gun.