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A 16-year-old girl reported missing from Tonbridge on Monday 21 September, last seen at Maidstone West train station, has been safely located, Kent Police have confirmed.

The M20 was closed in both directions between Hollingbourne and Ashford for several hours overnight after a collision involving more than 30 vehicles in thick fog, with two people seriously injured.

A 15-year-old girl reported missing from Maidstone since Tuesday 25 August has been safely located, Kent Police have confirmed.

Kent Fire and Rescue Service sent eight engines to a blaze involving multiple shipping containers in Wrotham that took over four hours to put out, while seven engines and a height vehicle tackled a recycling centre fire in Allington, Maidstone, earlier the same evening. No injuries were reported at either scene, and the cause of both fires remains unknown.

Four teenage boys, aged 15 to 17 and from Maidstone, Rochester and Sheerness, have been arrested and bailed after two mopeds were allegedly wheeled away from Fremlin Walk car park in the early hours of Wednesday 23 September; the mopeds and a suspected stolen e-bike have since been recovered.

Kent Police have released a CCTV image of a man they want to identify after a break-in at the Tesco Express near St Andrews Park Road in Southborough in the early hours of Wednesday 16 September, in which a quantity of cash was stolen.

Housing Minister Matthew Pennycook has rejected Tonbridge and Malling Borough Council's request to withdraw or amend the Government's direction forcing its Local Plan forward, after the council argued water supply concerns were an exceptional circumstance.

Tonbridge Angels have signed central defender Pele Arganese-McDermott on a short-term loan from League Two side Crawley Town, as manager Alan Dunne looks to strengthen a small squad for a congested fixture list.

Turvins Farm Shop, which opened this summer on the Westacott family's land near Sevenoaks, is the latest chapter in a story that goes back to 1892 - and with a sixth generation of the family born in 2025, it won't be the last.

West Kent Business Connections brings together the Growth Hub, both Kent chambers of commerce, Produced in Kent and more under one roof at The Stag Plaza on Tuesday 10 November - a free morning aimed at anyone starting, running or growing a business locally.

Miller Homes wants to build up to 230 houses on a field north of Offham Road, West Malling - land the council looked at for its new Local Plan and chose not to earmark for housing. More than 60 objections have already come in, and the local Friends of Offham Road group is campaigning against it ahead of the 18 November deadline to comment.

Kent Police have released CCTV images of a man they want to identify after a group of three men approached two friends in Mount Pleasant Road, Tunbridge Wells, in the early hours of 17 October, throwing one to the ground and stamping on his leg.
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