Local News
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Economy £10m Government Grant Opens for Kent Pubs, Restaurants and Cafés
Hospitality businesses in Dover and across Kent can now apply for a share of a national £10 million three-year grant scheme, with a…
14 September 2026 -
Crime & Justice Three arrested after man stabbed in Dartford High Street
A man in his 40s was taken to hospital with injuries consistent with stab wounds after an altercation involving six people in Dartford town…
13 September 2026 -
Council Updates Folkestone & Hythe landlords face fines up to £40,000 under new council housing enforcement policy
Folkestone & Hythe District Council has adopted a new civil penalty policy giving it stronger powers to fine private landlords and letting…
13 September 2026 -
Investigations Kent’s water, Part A: the demand nobody in Whitstable voted for
South East Water plans for 550,000 more people by 2050. Per-person use is falling, leakage is meant to halve and business use is flat, so…
13 September 2026 -
Local News Danny Dyer and Becky Hill to join Leysdown water protest, organisers say
SOS Whitstable says Danny Dyer, Dani Dyer and Becky Hill will join its Stop the Sewage protest at Leysdown-on-Sea on Sunday 20 September.
12 September 2026 -
Council Updates Officers urge Ashford cabinet to reject calls for shorter Park Mall pedestrian route
Officers recommended that Ashford Borough Council’s cabinet reject a motion and public petition seeking an additional pedestrian exit from…
12 September 2026 -
Council Updates Ashford parking charges to rise across all council car parks as free parking offers are withdrawn
Ashford Borough Council’s cabinet considered proposals on 10 September 2026 to increase off-street and on-street parking tariffs, introduce…
12 September 2026 -
Council Updates Kent’s 14 councils, scored: Kent Local News publishes its first full Council Scorecard
Bins, complaints, money, openness and planning, scored from the councils’ own published data and the regulators’ reports. Every council was…
12 September 2026 -
Council Updates Maidstone refuse truck catches fire after battery speaker put in recycling bin
A battery-powered speaker thrown into a Maidstone recycling bin started a fire in a refuse truck, prompting the borough council to warn…
12 September 2026 -
Council Updates Ashford’s old Odeon and Mecca Bingo building to become cultural venue
Ashford Borough Council is moving forward with plans to return the former Odeon and Mecca Bingo building in the town centre to arts and…
11 September 2026 -
Council Updates Tonbridge and Malling council chief challenges Government over forced housing plan
Council leader Matt Boughton has written to Minister Matthew Pennycook demanding he withdraw a Government direction that forces the borough…
11 September 2026 -
Crime & Justice Man of no fixed address jailed for 18 months after string of fires and criminal damage across Kent
Kian Minister, 24, of no fixed address, was sentenced at Canterbury Crown Court on 4 September 2026 after admitting three counts of arson…
11 September 2026