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Housing Minister Rejects TMBC's Bid to Overturn Local Plan Intervention
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.
Missing Maidstone Teenager Found Safe
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.
CCTV Appeal After Man Left With Serious Ankle Injury in Mount Pleasant Road Assault
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.
Burglar Who Climbed a Drainpipe Into a Seal Home Jailed After DNA Spree Across Five Counties
A burglar who scaled a drainpipe to break into a first-floor balcony near Pillar Box Lane in Seal, near Sevenoaks, has been jailed for three years and ten months after DNA on a cleaning-spray bottle at another scene linked him to nine burglaries worth more than half a million pounds across Kent, London, Buckinghamshire and Surrey.
Borrow, Don't Buy: Sevenoaks Library of Things to Open at the Bat & Ball Centre
Sevenoaks Town Council has awarded Sevenoaks Climate Action Network £4,000 and free space at the Bat & Ball Centre to launch a Library of Things, letting residents borrow tools and equipment instead of buying them - the project that topped the public vote at this year's SCAN Climate Fair.
Sakura, Bullet Trains and Borrowed Woodblocks: Maidstone Photographer's Japan Show Opens Today
Maidstone-born photographer Oliver Bryant's first solo exhibition, Sakura: A Journey Through Japan, opens at Creative Maidstone today, pairing his photographs from two trips to Japan with two Edo-period woodblock prints on loan from Maidstone Museums.
Remember, Remember: How West Kent's Cinemas Compare - and the Ones That Didn't Survive
It's the night V for Vendetta is set on, and plenty of people make a yearly ritual of rewatching it on 5 November - as good an excuse as any to ask how cinema-going is actually doing in 2026, nationally and across West Kent's four very different boroughs, including the cinemas that didn't survive to see it.
Cocaine Dealer Jailed After Cycling Without Lights Caught a Kent Police Officer's Eye
A 49-year-old man has been jailed for two and a half years after a Kent Police officer stopped him for cycling without lights in Tunbridge Wells - and found him carrying six packets of white powder in his underwear.
Free Repair Café and 'Sustainable Christmas' Zone Comes to Maidstone Market
Maidstone Climate Action Network is running a free Repair Café and Sustainable Christmas zone at the Market Hall, Lockmeadow this Saturday - fixing broken items on the spot and showing how to cut down on festive waste, from fabric gift-wrapping to a re-gifting table.