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A 15-year-old girl reported missing from Maidstone on Thursday 5 November, last seen boarding a bus at Maidstone Bus Station, has been safely found, Kent Police confirmed on Saturday morning.

A 52-year-old woman reported missing from Tonbridge on Thursday 24 September has been found safe and well, Kent Police have confirmed, after a public appeal following a CCTV sighting of her car on Tonbridge High Street.

Trains are running again between Redhill and Tonbridge after Network Rail's emergency closure to stabilise a moving embankment near Godstone - a closure that, in the end, ran a day longer than first announced, with 208 steel piles now holding the slope in place.

A man and a secondary school-age boy were injured, the boy seriously, when the e-bike they were riding was involved in a collision with a Kent Police vehicle in Lodge Oak Lane, Tonbridge, in the early hours of Monday 26 October. A mandatory referral has been made to the police watchdog.

Network Rail is closing the line between Redhill and Tonbridge from 28 October to 1 November to install 208 steel piles into a moving embankment near Godstone - an emergency closure that stacks on top of the Hastings line's own closure between Tonbridge and Wadhurst, already running until the same date.

Southeastern is advising passengers to plan ahead as Network Rail closes the Hastings line between Tonbridge and Wadhurst for nine days from 24 October, with rail replacement buses running and reduced parking at Tunbridge Wells and Frant stations while track is renewed in Grove Hill Tunnel.

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.

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.
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