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Huge 20mph zone on cards as boy racers run riot

08 August 2022
Huge 20mph zone on cards as boy racers run riot

A 20mph limit could be enforced as reckless drivers are making people too frightened to set foot on the pavement, councillors warn.

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Wetherspoon scraps £2.5m hotel plan - but pub to get bigger

07 August 2022
Wetherspoon scraps £2.5m hotel plan - but pub to get bigger

Pub chain Wetherspoon has scrapped plans to build a £2.5 million seafront hotel above one of its boozers – but hopes to expand the site instead.

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The £3.5m holiday let village...on land council sold for £160k

05 August 2022
The £3.5m holiday let village...on land council sold for £160k

A row of seafront holiday lets built in part on council land sold for just £165,000 has been put on the market for almost £3.5 million.

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Couple and dog suffer sickness and diarrhoea after sea swim

02 August 2022
Couple and dog suffer sickness and diarrhoea after sea swim

A couple and their dog have been struck down with gastroenteritis following a swim off the Kent coast – just hours after a sewage discharge.

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Plans to transform discount store into huge gym

01 August 2022
Plans to transform discount store into huge gym

A bid has been launched to transform a Poundstretcher store into a Kent district's first PureGym.

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Traffic 'nightmare' as two busy routes shut for summer

01 August 2022
Traffic 'nightmare' as two busy routes shut for summer

Two of the main routes between out of a Kent town will be shut this summer – with one not set to reopen for a year.

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Shopping centre’s value falls by £80m since site bought by council

31 July 2022
Shopping centre’s value falls by £80m since site bought by council

A popular retail site snapped up by a Kent council for £154 million has crashed in value by more than 50%.

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High street bakers selling up after 24 years

29 July 2022
High street bakers selling up after 24 years

The popular owners of a town centre bakery that sees hundreds of customers come through its doors each day are hanging up their aprons.

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'Council has vandalised shelters more than the vandals'

28 July 2022
'Council has vandalised shelters more than the vandals'

Angry residents say criminals are being allowed “to win” after benches were removed from Victorian-style shelters regularly smashed apart by yobs.

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Police launch arson probe after shed fire spread to homes

25 July 2022
Police launch arson probe after shed fire spread to homes

A blaze that spread to nearby homes and prompted a rescue mission to save two dogs was started deliberately, detectives believe.

Factories to be built on prime farmland

25 July 2022
Factories to be built on prime farmland

A firm's bid to move to a new Kent base has been given the go-ahead - despite concerns over the “irreversible loss of grade one agricultural land”.

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How hero farmer helped stop massive wildfire from spreading

24 July 2022
How hero farmer helped stop massive wildfire from spreading

A farmer has been hailed for bravely ploughing crops just metres away from a wildfire in a bid to stop it from spreading to homes.

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Yobs force open doors and trigger alarms as train halted

24 July 2022
Yobs force open doors and trigger alarms as train halted

Rowdy passengers are causing delays on a London-bound train by setting the emergency alarm and forcing their carriage's doors open.

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'Delays will not be at Dover'

24 July 2022
'Delays will not be at Dover'

Anti-Brexit campaigners have joined the queues of hauliers in Kent as they blame the county's congestion chaos on Britain's departure from the EU.

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Six fire engines called to big crop blaze

24 July 2022
Six fire engines called to big crop blaze

Teams of firefighters battled a large field blaze which spread near to people's homes.

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Disruption to rail services across the county

24 July 2022
Disruption to rail services across the county

Journeys have been brought to a halt and could even be cancelled after a broken-down train blocked a line on the Kent coast.

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Another huge Argos store to close

24 July 2022
Another huge Argos store to close

A Kent district’s last-remaining standalone Argos store is set to close for good.

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Fire crews battle 20-acre crop blaze

23 July 2022
Fire crews battle 20-acre crop blaze

Forty firefighters have been battling a huge crop blaze - which spread across a swathe of farmland.

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Roads mayhem 'could last all summer', warns traffic chief

23 July 2022
Roads mayhem 'could last all summer', warns traffic chief

A lack of customs 'resource' will lead to travel chaos strangling Kent continuing throughout the summer unless the problem can be resolved.

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Three-mile queues after overturned trailer crash

23 July 2022
Three-mile queues after overturned trailer crash

A van and car towing a trailer collided on a busy motorway stretch - adding yet more traffic woes for motorists in Kent.

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