The chancellor has announced the 2014 budget this afternoon and players of the game are set to benefit with bingo tax slashed from 20% to 10%.

More than £120,000 worth of improvements have been unveiled at Maidstone's Hazlitt Theatre.

Permission has been granted to change a four-story building into a hotel aimed at the Chinese tourists.

A free workshop will give advice to businesses affected by the adverse weather in recent months.

The company behind proposals for a £2bn theme park in Kent have backed the Chancellor's plans to create a new city in the county.

The winners of the 10th Taste of Kent Awards are announced, in a celebration of the many flavours of today's Garden of England.

Thousands join a petition campaign to save Folkestone's last remaining cinema

Police were scrambled to check on a businessman - when he asked a council worker if he should kill himself in a phone rant about planning permission.

A new tenant is being sought for the upper area of the town's old cinema.

A Kent tourist destination has become the test venue for a new speaker product developed by a global audio giant, whose HQ is moving across the road.

A restaurant owner's lost more than £1,000 after dozens of customers staged a mass walkout amid complaints about slow service and unsatisfactory food.

The continuing reorganisation of the business at Shepherd Neame has dented pre-tax profits, despite hailing a "strong trading performance".

Kent are celebrating much-improved financial results according to figures released on Tuesday morning.

A former Islander who has set up his own brewery has developed a special bitter for Sheppey’s first micropub.

A new Chinese restaurant owner has got Elvis always on his mind - as an impersonator who will keep the King's memory alive for diners.

Nearly 4,000 gamers of all ages took part in the biggest and best GEEK games expo yet at Margate's Winter Gardens.

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.

A group of tourism experts have been given money to share past research projects with other areas, looking at ways to tap into new leisure markets.

A major action plan could breathe new life in to Ramsgate’s waterfront.

The Kent Messenger was today given an exclusive first look at the restoration project going on inside The Hengist, in Aylesford.