A Royal Mail sorting office is temporarily opening for longer to cope with a build-up of post after weeks of delayed deliveries.

A former Kent and England Lions cricketer has told of his ‘two-year nightmare’ after being cleared of groping a barmaid in a Maidstone pub.

Police searching for a missing Maidstone man have tonight found a body.

The American chart-toppers will be joined by an Iron Maiden legend and festival favourites next summer.

The hospital where a necrophiliac carried out his sick crimes cannot be turned into a “police state”, says an NHS trust boss.

Our parcel and card which we sent to see if they would be caught up in the postal delays Kent residents have reported are... yet to arrive.

Villagers have said "no thanks" to the idea of a shop and street lights to accompany plans for 20 homes next to a recreation ground.

Plans to build holiday lodges in an ancient wood within an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty have been turned down.

A remarkable nurse who set sail for South America on a banana boat and set up an Aids charity and orphanage there has released her autobiography.

A group of Air Cadets joined a former RAF gunner as he celebrated his centenary.

Vandals attacked a community’s Christmas tree which had been put up by volunteers.

An overnight closure of a dual carriageway for repair work has been postponed.

A thug has been jailed after hurling an axe at a pregnant woman’s stomach.

A main route has shut after an HGV broke down.

Two law firms with 225 years in business between them have joined forces.

Earlier delays on a major road near a busy roundabout have now cleared following a crash involving two vehicles.

Several areas of the county are at risk of flooding due to rising river levels, the Environment Agency says.

A council has been urged to plan for a new leisure hub before the existing one becomes unusable.

A former quarry is being rewilded by women from Soroptimist International who hope the trees can survive “the rigours of the council gardening teams”.

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