The Brexit Party will only contest one seat in the county at the election in a major climbdown by leader Nigel Farage.

Charlie Elphicke has stood down as candidate for his Kent constituency and his wife Natalie will contest the seat at December's general election.

A popular church group has been kicked out of a former town centre nightclub after using it illegally for two years.

A businessman has become the seventh person to announce he is standing for election in Sittingbourne and Sheppey.

Parliamentary candidates are set to be interviewed live on Facebook prior to the general election next month.

The two big parties have almost outdone each other in making mistakes at the start of the election campaign, says our political expert.

Labour has picked a Medway councillor to stand as MP for Sittingbourne and Sheppey after its previous candidate joined the Conservatives.

A main man in the Extinction Rebellion movement will be the guest speaker as climate change and green plans are discussed for part of Kent.

The Green Party is standing aside in a Kent seat as part of a pact with another party.

With government dissolved the campaigning has officially begun.

Boris Johnson has visited the Queen to formally get the election campaign underway.

Travellers who forced the closure of one of Kent's most popular activity centres have moved on, stopping over at a science park.

Cheers rang out in a council chamber as controversial proposals to turn a shopping centre into a huge tower block were unanimously scrapped.

It is not yet confirmed if Charlie Elphicke, who has a court case hanging over him, will stand again in his constituency.

A former Labour candidate has announced he has defected to the Conservative Party.

Nigel Farage's general election strategy has prompted a candidate to quit the party in protest.

Labour activist and journalist Owen Jones is set to visit Kent this weekend to campaign ahead of the general election.

The candidates for a safe Tory seat currently held by the former Defence Secretary have been revealed.

Two Kent councils have been forced to move their counts because of pantomime season.

Hospital bosses have asked for the NHS not to be used as political football, but with questions over a new hospital in the county, is it possible?