A new £10.5 million specialist care home has been opened on the site of a disused petrol station in Tunbridge Wells.

NHS workers including nurses walk out of hospitals and health centres across Kent today in the second round of strike action.

Councillors’ requests for a condition regarding a supermarket and doctor’s surgery in Sandwich were deemed unreasonable by the planning officer.

A stacked burger which includes cheese bacon - and two glazed doughnuts - has been condemned as a 2,000-calorie health hazard.

People have been warned about the health risks associated with overusing antibiotics.

Patients at Dover Medical Practice say there should be more help available to re-register them with another surgery.

Cate Russell will take over the reigns of the charity next year after backlash over beds closures

Kent is at the centre of the largest-ever study into a plant that can prove fatal to horses and other livestock.

Patients are being asked to support expansion plans by Ivy Court GP Surgery in Tenterden.

Parking spaces at Darent Valley Hospital are set to double in a major plan to ease the traffic nightmare for patients, staff and visitors.

A woman who was told by medics she would never have children following a stroke aged eight has defied the odds to give birth to a beautiful baby girl.

A disabled woman was trapped on a railway station platform for an hour and a half after staff locked the lift and went home.

Members of staff at a learning action centre in Tonbridge have held an open day providing support and advice to those with Dyslexia.

A TV star known for her roles in Casualty and Holby City has died after losing her battle with cancer.

Two puppies left out in the rain in a sealed up box on a doorstep in Kent have died, but a third had a happier ending after being re-homed.

A family are spending every waking hour at the bedsides of two children seriously injured in a crash which killed their seven-year-old brother.

HIV cases are increasing in Kent with half of diagnoses being made in the late stages of the disease - and outdated attitudes could be to blame.

A brave army medic has said he is committed to help bring the Ebola epidemic under control in Sierra Leone.

Fake cigarettes - some containing human faeces and sawdust - have been flooding parts of Kent in unprecedented numbers.

An annual fishing trip proved near fatal for a Kent angler after he caught more than he bargained for... a deadly disease.