The Latest Breaking News from Kent

Super Touring Power event to return at Brands Hatch in 2024

The celebration of the halcyon Super Touring period of tin-top racing proved popular with fans and also attracted a host of stars to the 2023 event, with Kiwi aces Paul Radisich, Greg Murphy and Steven Richards being tempted to Kent while current British Touring Car frontrunner Jake Hill won all…

Autosport · Jul 13, 2023

UK town comes with loud 4am wake up call for anyone who wants to move there

Folkestone, Kent, was recently named one of the best places to live in the UK by The Sunday Times and has become a magnet for people fleeing the capital to live by the seaside

Daily Mirror · Jul 13, 2023

Warning as highly invasive beetle found in UK for first time in 46 years

Colorado beetles, which swarm like a plague of locusts and can devastate crops, were last recorded in the UK in 1977- a year after one of the hottest summers and worst droughts in living memory

Daily Mirror · Jul 12, 2023

Leaving London: how one family swapped a tiny rented flat in Zone 1 for a stone farmhouse in rural Northamptonshire

How one family swapped Zone 1 for a Kent commuter town before heading to rural Northamptonshire

Evening Standard · Jul 10, 2023

Kent police criticised for Top Gun tweet after identifying woman’s body

Mother of Azra Kemal, 24, says celebratory tweet on day of her daughter’s death was ‘horrendous’

The Guardian - UK · Jul 8, 2023

Robert Jenrick has cartoon murals painted over at children’s asylum centre

Paintings were considered too welcoming at Kent centre for lone children arriving in UK

The Guardian - UK · Jul 7, 2023

Travellers face two-hour queues at Port of Dover

The Kent port said processing times for passing through checks by French border officials are two hours for coaches and one-and-a-half hours for cars.

The Independent UK · Jul 7, 2023

Giant stone artefacts discovered on rare Ice Age site in Kent

Two extremely large flint knives, described as giant handaxes, were amongst the unearthed artefacts.

The Independent UK · Jul 5, 2023

E-scooters should be ‘seized and crushed’, police chief urges

Matthew Scott, who is the police and crime commissioner for Kent, warned against ‘a summer blighted by anti-social vehicles’

Evening Standard · Jul 4, 2023

Princess Kate visits Wimbledon. Rain interrupts play for the 2nd straight day

The Princess of Wales was at a rainy Wimbledon and is expected to sit in the Royal Box when play begins on Centre Court

The Independent UK · Jul 4, 2023