KCC Leader meets with Port of Dover officials to streamline EU border checks
KCC’s Roger Gough and Neil Baker with Emma Ward and Paul Biles from the Port of Dover Photo: KCC In preparation for upcoming EU border ID checks, the Leader of…
More than 120,000 untaxed ciggies seized in Gravesend and Dartford
Officers have seized approximately 120,000 illicit cigarettes across Dartford and Gravesham in a multi-agency operation last week, Friday 8 March 2024. Officers from the Community Safety Units in Dartford and…
Dover MP calls for urgent Government investment to prepare port for EU border checks
Natalie pictured with Transport Secretary, the Rt Hon Mark Harper MP, Doug Bannister (CEO at the Port of Dover) and Jason Holt (Chairman of the Port of Dover) in Parliament…
Purse theft suspect in Tonbridge handed over to Home Office, under immigration detention order
In an unusual turn of events, three suspects were swiftly arrested following a daring purse theft in Tonbridge. The incident unfolded around 11:20 a.m. on Tuesday, March 5, 2024, when…
Russian HGV driver jailed for attempting to smuggle migrants ‘OUT’ of the UK to France
A Russian HGV driver has been jailed for four years after pleading guilty to smuggling migrants ‘from the UK to France’. Nikolai Kuznetsov, aged 39 was stopped by Border Force…
Home Office called to be more open over migrant centre near Ramsgate
Part of the Manston site The Leader of Thanet District Council, Cllr Rick Everitt, has called for the Home Office to be open with the public over its plans for…
I will fully support Rwanda plan says Folkestone and Hythe MP
Constituency matters… a weekly column by the Member of Parliament for Folkestone and Hythe, Damian Collins 9 December 2023 ‘Illegal’ immigration During a recent visit to Dungeness, I saw the…
Canterbury court jails lorry driver involved in ‘people smuggling’ network
A lorry driver who smuggled migrants into the UK for a London-based people smuggling gang has been jailed for two-years-and-eight months. Vasile Balcovei, 49, from Tulcea in Romania dropped two…
Government axe Folkestone hotel from list of asylum accommodation
Constituency matters… a weekly column by the Member of Parliament for Folkestone and Hythe, Damian Collins 31 October 2023 Asylum seekers This week the government made further progress with its…
National Crime Agency arrest man after Sudanese woman’s body discovered on Channel coast beach
National Crime Agency officers have arrested a man as part of an investigation into the death of a woman who is thought to have died attempting to cross the Channel…