Gran Sheila Miller and pals feature in a 'Calendar Girls'-style photoshoot for charity.

If you know a youngster who has achieved great things in sport, music or the arts despite disability here's your chance to put them in the spotlight.

Japan's top flan chuckers beat dozens of local teams at the prestigious World Custard Pie Championships today.

Mercury reader snaps Duke of Wellington mystery at Walmer Castle

What was the worst experience of Ariana Grande's mum's life? Where is Kent's most active speed camera? Take the Friday News Quiz.

One of Deal's premier events - the Party on the Prom - needs your help to pay for it - so take to the limelight at a fundraiser on the red carpet

Travellers have been spotted setting up camp in a public park - the third sighting in just over a week.

A new company is giving people the chance to camp in style this summer at a new site in west Kent.

The Mercury’s anti texting and driving campaign, ‘Why Risk It?’ and new research has sparked a crackdown of texting drivers by Kent Police and KCC.

The wonders of nature were encapsulated by pupils from The Downs Primary School in a poster competition to promote Walmer in Bloom.

Letters written by notorious gangster Reggie Kray will be listed on an online bidding site after failing to meet their reserve at auction.

A restaurant and bar dedicated to the King of Rock and Roll has closed just over a year after its sell-out opening night.

These new parents will never forget the day their daughter was born after she came into the world on the side of a motorway this afternoon.

A huge Tyrannosaurus Rex has been unleashed in a Kent town this afternoon after travelling to the area on a flatbed truck.

A pressure group has attacked councils for holding 'non-essential' assets including a wet fish stall and model railway.

The future of an eyesore pub destroyed by fire in 2011 is set to be decided at a council planning committee meeting tonight.

Baby Jack grew to the size of a one-year-old in just ten weeks.

Don't miss the chance to nominate that someone special for the annual Ward and Partners Children’s Awards

A total of 1,500 litres of beer were quaffed as a German beer festival cam to Maidstone for the first time on Saturday night.

It may not be everyone's choice of destination, but this Kent man makes his living from guiding tourists in search of a different type of holiday.