Hawkinge Cricket & Social Club apply for variation to their licence over outdoor live music
Folkestone and Hythe District Councillor Susan Carey has told the Hawkinge Gazette of an application to amend the premise licence at Hawkinge Cricket & Social Club in Cricketers Close Hawkinge…
Drugs ‘destruction derby’ sees four cars damaged in car park near Tunbridge Wells
Drugs, cash and weapons have been seized after a suspected dealer’s car collided with three police vehicles near Tunbridge Wells. On Wednesday 8 December 2021, police arrived at a car…
CCTV released as part of investigation into Sittingbourne assault on girl
Images of a man who may have important information on an incident in Sittingbourne have been released by Kent Police. Detectives are investigating an allegation a man approached a girl…
Arrest made over reported rape in Sittingbourne
A suspect has been arrested in connection with a reported a rape in Sittingbourne. It is alleged that during the early hours of Saturday 11 December 2021, a woman was…
Covid Omicron fear forces KCC into meetings’ rethink
The format of Kent County Council’s (KCC) full council meeting on Thursday 16 December has been revised to limit the potential spread of COVID-19. KCC’s political groups have agreed there…
Pair from Folkestone and Gravesend who sexually abused girl jailed for 33 years
Two men who subjected a girl to serious sexual abuse have been jailed for a combined total of 33 years. Mark Lindow groomed the victim, who was 16 at the…
Violence Reduction Unit and Kent FA team up to safeguard young players
Football clubs across Kent will be supported to help safeguard young players as part of a new agreement between the Kent FA and the Kent and Medway Violence Reduction Unit…
Ashford unveils plans for housing homeless people on Henwood Road car park
Ashford Borough Council has launched a public consultation on plans to create new temporary accommodation for homeless people on the under-used Henwood car park on the edge of the town…
Police charge Whitstable man after officer hit by motorcycle near Maidstone – Update
A man has been charged and remanded in custody following an incident in Larkfield, near Maidstone, which saw a Kent Police officer struck by a motorcycle. At around 2.45pm on…
Maidstone gaol inmate charged with murder of fellow prisoner
The Crown Prosecution Service has authorised a charge of murder following the death of an inmate in HMP Maidstone. Sasan Rabit who is 24 and an inmate at the prison…