A dad-of-three who’s spent almost four decades in the car parts industry has swapped selling tyres for serving hungry customers fish and chips.

People are being urged to have their say on £20m plans for a new coffee shop, improved GP facilities and an adventure golf course.

A bridge used by drivers, trains, cyclists and pedestrians will close for longer than expected this summer for emergency repairs to its lifting ropes.

The Post Office has confirmed that one of its branches will be closing following the resignation of a postmaster.

Aerial photos show significant progress has been made on a new supermarket but the retailer says it’s not ready to open as planned.

Volunteers are needed to help monitor seven Kent prisons to check inmates are being treated fairly and humanely.

A firm specialising in paint products for the automotive industry is among the first company’s to move to a new multi-million-pound business park.

Police have launched an investigation after a man was found dead in a street.

From Turbo roundabouts to the longest road tunnel in the UK, these are the huge road projects in Kent either underway or still waiting for approval.

A dad-of-three who said unemptied bins had become “nothing short of a nightmare” has resorted to paying for his rubbish to be taken away.

A town centre’s only hotel, which featured on Channel Four’s Four in a Bed, is for sale.

A charity shop volunteer who “never misses a day and hasn’t been on holiday for ages” has won a national award and is off to Buckingham Palace.

Litter pickers have filled hundreds of bags with rubbish from a beach plagued by waste that washes up from an illegal dump site.

A number of authorities are to join forces to clamp down on dangerous jet ski riders this summer.

Following years of delays, the removal of masts on a sunken war ship filled with explosives is set to begin in the next 12 months.

A pub that is earmarked to become flats and a micropub is set to go under the hammer with a guide price of more than £200k.

A husband and wife have put up a sign setting out the number of days they have been without having their bins emptied - and it’s 21 and counting.

A missing 13-year-old girl has been found after a huge police operation to trace her.

A boss at a waste company that’s come under huge criticism after multiple bins went uncollected resulting in hundreds of complaints has apologised.

A church remains shut after a vase was thrown at one of its windows, leaving a hole in the middle of the image of Christ.