A school in Kent will soon be able to accommodate over 100 extra students and half a dozen members of staff.

The people fighting to be Dartford's next MP engaged in a war of words in a Question Time-style debate this week.

A spat has broken out between Labour and Conservatives over the use of an image of the Rolling Stones frontman on the cover of a political magazine.

It has been five years since Ann Widdecombe left the House of Commons, but she has been back on the campaign trail in Kent this week.

Kent Police will take no action over a complaint by Ukip about a joke made at Nigel Farage's expense on the satirical show, Have I Got News For You.

More than 2,000 people have been sent "misleading" information with their voting instructions.

The Conservatives have edged ahead of Ukip in a Lord Ashcroft general election poll on the key Kent battleground of South Thanet.

A big purple bus will be driving around Dartford in an effort to persuade residents to vote Ukip.

George Osborne landed the plum political visit today... a trip to an ice cream parlour.

A Liberal Democrat candidate has defended comments made in a political debate in which he appeared to call for population controls.

Drivers could be forgiven for being confused about a case of mistaken identity, after Nigel Farage's face was plastered on a Conservative's poster.

A Conservative candidate's firm helps foreign nationals claim "unbelievably generous" tax credits - despite his party's crackdown on benefit tourism.

A prospective Tory MP has seen the funny side after an email informed her that her election poster had been defaced with a "small gentleman's part".

Two election rivals for the fiercely-contested South Thanet seat have both condemned an incident involving members of a far right group today.

Ex-EastEnders star and TV hard man Ross Kemp joined a Labour candidate in the race to become the next South Thanet MP.

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People seeking debt advice are already £43,000 in the red and the Labour party have made the issue a priority in the upcoming general election.

The candidate fighting for the Tories against Nigel Farage owns a website dedicated to encouraging Hungarians to work in UK.

Ukip candidate Mark Reckless has been accused of using comments from Labour's Keith Vaz, without his permission, to endorse his own election campaign.

William Hague became the latest high-profile Conservative figure to visit east Kent.