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Contractor fined £17,000 after worker suffers serious injury falling at new build house near Canterbury

A principal contractor has been prosecuted after a worker suffered a serious injury when he fell approximately three metres through an unprotected stairwell opening.
Debenhams in Folkestone, Ashford, Chatham, and Canterbury set to close

Kent will see four of the Debenhams stores in the county close after the struggling company announced 22 store closures across the country.
Alarming number of crack and opiate addicts living in Kent and across the South East revealed

Public Health England has recently released a report on the estimated number of crack cocaine and opiate users across each region of England, aged between 15 and 64 years old.
Teenager charged over Sainsbury's supermarket robbery in Maidstone

A teenage boy has been charged over an attempted robbery at a Maidstone supermarket.
Two Margate 'crime spree' burglars jailed

Two Thanet burglars who were caught by police as they ran from a home they had tried to smash their way into, have been jailed.
Back door is 'smashed' in Maynard Avenue, Margate burglary

Officers investigating a burglary at a property in Margate are appealing for witnesses.