A man who set fire to his Ramsgate home with his three children inside has had his appeal against his "severe" sentence thrown out by senior judges.

Work to reduce the amount of anti-social behaviour in Dover's town centre is going "superbly" according to the police.

A former ambassador has walked free from court - despite driving his car onto an unmanned rail crossing just seconds ahead of a train.

A man charged with knifing a 21-year-old woman in the back at a shop has been transferred to a mental hospital while psychiatric reports are prepared.

A 35-year-old man charged with two robbery offences against a group of youths has been remanded in custody.

A man has been charged with throwing an acidic substance believed to be drain cleaner at two teenagers who needed hospital treatment for burns.

Yobs who hurled foul-mouthed racist taunts at an innocent stranger have been locked up.

A drugs supplier who claimed she was scared for her life when she was forced to smuggle heroin and cannabis into a Kent prison has been locked up.

A mother-of-two knocked back five half-pints of cider before getting behind the wheel of her car - and then blamed a new diet when she crashed.

The family of a man who died of pneumonia after falling out of bed twice in just days on a heavily-understaffed hospital ward are suing the NHS.

A driver who caused the death of a woman on her way to church when his car spun onto the wrong side of the A2 has today been locked up for two years.

A hospital doctor has avoided prison after lying to police that he was driving when his uninsured wife crashed into a parked Jaguar.

A security company has been fined £20,000 after a security guard was killed when he was overcome be carbon monoxide fumes at a disused nursing home.

A former charity manager who committed a "grave breach of trust" by stealing almost £14,000 from two vulnerable people in her care is behind bars.

The lorry driver who wrought off a police car and injured a recovery driver in a smash near Dover has been sentenced at Canterbury Crown Court.

An "arrogant and manipulative" Territorial Army soldier is starting a long jail sentence after raping a teenage girl because she touched his foot.

This is the smirking face of a serial sex attacker who is facing years behind bars for a string of offences on women across Kent.

A man has today been charged with murdering teenager Claire Tiltman, who was stabbed to death in an alleyway 21 years ago, after a cold case review.

A doctor falsely claimed he was driving a car that his learner driver wife had crashed in icy conditions, a court's heard.

A teenager 'could have killed' a crew by shining a laser pen at a police helicopter, a court was told.