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Housing unaccompanied asylum seeker children, poverty cliches and our national anthem are among topics tackled in this week’s letters to the editor.
A major renovation at a Kent castle, which was due to open this week, has been delayed.
Police are appealing for information after a boy was pushed into a trolley.
Smoke has been seen coming from a home where a fire is thought to have started in the garden.
Factory workers are once again on the picket line as part of an ongoing dispute with its employer over controversial “fire and rehire” threats.
The daughter of a Kent bodyguard killed in Iraq 20 years ago says more should have been done for children who lost their parents at war.
A violent rapist has been jailed after he lured a woman back to his home and abused her.
Extra police with additional powers have been scrambled following reports of teenagers clashing in a trouble-hit park.
Villagers have staged a protest outside a council chamber over proposals being brought forward to build thousands of new homes on the green belt.
A trio of flea-ridden cats were found abandoned in a taped-up cardboard box.
A rat-infested Chinese takeaway has been ordered to shut down after inspectors found the premises in a “filthy condition”.
A star of recent Netflix hit The Gentlemen is set to make an appearance in Kent.
The number of asylum seekers crossing the Channel so far in 2024 has reached a new record high for the first three months of a calendar year.
CCTV footage has captured the moment two young thieves loitering inside a market restaurant make off with the staff’s hard-earned tips.
Police have been seen carrying out door-to-door enquiries opposite a primary school after “blood” was discovered.
A main road has reopened after a car crashed into a barrier.
A dead rat was found decomposing in the kitchen of a popular sushi restaurant given a damning one-star food hygiene rating.
Aerial images have been released showing the progress made building a town’s replacement sports centre ahead of its upcoming opening.
A coroner has ruled it is impossible to know what happened in the moments leading up to a fatal crash in which a van collided with a lorry.
It’s only fair for anyone wronged by public bodies to receive compensation, but as Secret Thinker says, we usually end up footing the bill.
Plans to transform a former nightclub site into a multimillion-pound creative centre will "kickstart the regeneration" of a town centre, bosses say.
A shop has been allowed to keep its licence despite employing an illegal worker - who claims he was paid just £6 an hour and sometimes in food.
Endless house building and road works at every turn are making people in one Kent town feel “trapped” in their homes.
Since they first met in 1953, Ron and Phyllis have spent nearly every day together and are celebrating their 70th wedding anniversary today.
A disused storage shed in a crematorium is set to be converted into a cafe and florist.
A memorial stone has been unveiled to the memory of a 19-year-old pilot killed on his first day in action during World War Two.
Plans are in place to fine nuisance motorists who take part in dangerous car racing events in and around the M25 late at night.
A jury took less than an hour to clear a mum accused of trying to cover up her boyfriend’s crimes.
Police are investigating a suspected burglary inside a flat block’s communal post room.
A county councillor has had the whip removed after being convicted of drink driving, despite leaders of the council initially backing him.
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