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Calls are growing for more to be done to help business owners as they face a retail crime epidemic described as “more like looting than shoplifting”.
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Two Conservative members at Kent County Council have been suspended for defying the party on housing policy.
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Councillors have criticised the ‘pitiful’ fines handed out to utility companies causing unnecessary jams on the county’s roads.
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A former leader received two rounds of applause after criticising Kent County Council’s current top table.
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A redundant primary school, earmarked for dozens of homes, is set to go on the market.
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An attempt to halt proposals to offload eight of the county’s historic windmills has been defeated.
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Top Tories have been accused of burying their heads in the sand by refusing to take plans to close waste centres off the table.
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Parents say planned cuts to youth clubs will leave children with nowhere to go, and that they fear some will turn to crime.
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Councillors say action is needed to protect shopkeepers following a spike in shoplifting in the county.
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A guru is ‘baffled’ at why the government isn’t doing more to help ‘well-run’ councils that have found themselves staring into the financial abyss.
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Kent County Council’s financial position has “weakened significantly” because it has been forced to dip into its savings pots to cover costs.
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Community groups can stake a claim for transport schemes from a pot of government funding worth £500,000 to Kent.
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Controversial plans to close four of Kent’s tips have been scrapped after county councillors voted to dump the proposals.
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Labour county councillors appear to have backed their leader Sir Keir Starmer’s stance over the conflict in the Middle East.
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The cabinet member leading the controversial proposed closures of household tips across the county has resigned.
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Schools across Kent have lost millions in funding because of errors made by the Department for Education (DfE), according to new claims.
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The soaring cost of providing cabs to school children has resulted in the suggestion that KCC could run an in-house taxi service.
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Kent’s Conservative Police and Crime Commissioner has announced he will seek a third term in next year’s elections.
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Pregnant women and parents of young children can now apply for funding to help pay for milk, fruit and veg.
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The cost of a controversial £40m rail project is set to soar "substantially" and the county's taxpayers will pick up the tab, new papers reveal.
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