Hawkinge Gazette

E-fit released after Whitstable phone snatch victim pushed into bush in attempted robbery

E-Fit released by Kent Police

A computer-generated image of a man, shown above, has been released after an attempted robbery in Whitstable.
£10,000 Dover council grant served up to Sandwich café bar

The Old Pharmacy Photo: Dover District Council

A new café bar in Sandwich is welcoming news that it is the latest business to be awarded a grant under Dover District Council’s Town Centre Business Grant Scheme.
Stoptober campaign helps smokers in Kent kick the habit

More than 150 people sought help to stop smoking as part of East Kent Hospitals’ Stoptober campaign.
Man hospitalised after reported attack with a plank and metal pole in Northdown Road Margate fracas

Witnesses are encouraged to come forward after a man was reportedly assaulted with a wooden plank and metal pole in Margate.
Cocaine seized during arrest in Tonbridge

Twenty wraps of suspected class A drugs were seized after Kent Police officers stopped a car in Tonbridge.
Gun smuggler jailed for nine years after attempting to import scores of firearms through Dover

A man has been jailed for nine years after admitting smuggling 60 guns into the country in his car, as part of a National Crime Agency investigation.
Social media boosts crowds who braved torrential rain in Folkestone for Creative Quarter Lights Switch-On

The Creative Quarter Xmas Lights are on! Photo: Ray Duff

By Ray Duff

Thanks in part to many social media posts, hundreds of people braved the inclement weather on Friday evening to join Booker Prize winning author Ben Okri and musicians as this years Creative Quarter Xmas lights were switched on.