The day in Kent · Three of Kent and Medway’s four hospital trusts are under enhanced NHS oversight, prompting the first-ever system-wide review of maternity, neonatal and women’s health services across the region. The scale of the safety concerns makes this the most consequential health story for Kent families in some time. Separately, routine autism and ADHD assessments have been suspended until at least April 2027, leaving lower-priority patients facing an indefinite wait.

Weather

Today: Cloudy morning, high 26°C, low 17°C.

Tomorrow: Rainy morning, becoming cloudy in the afternoon, clearing in the evening, high 24°C, low 18°C.

Warning: Yellow warning of thunderstorm affecting London & South East England; Yellow warning of thunderstorm affecting London & South East England

Travel

Roads (1 incident): M25 — M25 Anti-clockwise Jct 2 to A2 Westbound Darenth Interchange link road closure.

Rail: All Kent services running to schedule.

As of 00:00 from National Highways + National Rail.

Coastal tides

Dover: Low 05:39 (1.71m) · High 11:04 (6.08m) · Low 18:05 (1.50m) · High 23:22 (6.07m)

Margate: Low 05:52 (1.24m) · High 12:00 (4.33m) · Low 18:24 (0.86m) · High 00:29 (4.41m)

Tides via tidetimes.co.uk.

2040

The year Tonbridge and Malling’s new Local Plan will shape homes and jobs until.

Kent number of the day

“Margate’s Winter Gardens, opened in 1911, once hosted the Beatles and Rolling Stones before falling into decades of intermittent closure.”

Kent fact of the day