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South East Water has failed. But who decided how many people it must supply?

Analysis: John Halsall’s apology in Whitstable was overdue and Ofwat’s findings against his company are damning. But the number of people South East Water has to supply is set by government…

10 September 2026
On this day · 1967

Gibraltar's people voted overwhelmingly to remain a British dependency rather than join Spain, in a referendum Madrid refused to recognise.

Kent fact of the day

The Road of Remembrance in Folkestone was built by soldiers in 1918 as they marched down to the harbour to embark for the Western Front.

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