A council’s £4m temporary housing bill is due to a ‘perfect storm’ of adverse factors, according to a cabinet member.

A new alert has been issued warning people to be prepared for wintry conditions pushing towards the south.

A road is shut in both directions after a crash involving two vehicles, which saw one collide with an electricity pole.

A housing developer wants to build 87 homes in the green belt in an area of National Landscape Importance and next to Ancient Woodland.

Plans to change the council set-up across the country have sparked fears that one town would lose its identity and people won’t get the voices heard.

A village is to lose its butchers as the brothers who own it decide to retire.

The public are being asked if they are willing to fork out more money to fund Kent Police.

Villagers are growing fed-up with HGVs trundling along their country roads, but the council says there’s nothing they can do to stop them.

People braved the cold to watch colourful tractors parade through numerous villages.

A farmer claims he has been left in the lurch by Southern Water after a sewage spillage ran through his farmyard and “soaked and ruined” it.

A former science teacher who sexually assaulted a pupil under his care in the 1980s is beginning a prison sentence.

A man has been arrested and safeguarding emails sent to parents after reports of “suspicious activity”.

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Female councillors have spoken of their own experiences in a debate on violence against women and girls.

A suspect accused of attacking a man with a beer bottle will spend Christmas in custody.

A thug who left victims “paralysed with fear” after threatening them with a knife during two nights of terror has been jailed.

A much-loved festive tractor run, which has become a “true community event”, is back for a third year.

Three teenagers and a 20-year-old man involved in a crime spree that saw one unfortunate victim targeted three times have appeared in court.

Almost 1,200 objections have been lodged against plans for 140 homes amid fears the scheme will “overdevelop” a village.

Emergency services are at the scene of a roundabout crash which saw a vehicle flip onto its roof.