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The Latest Breaking News from Kent

Lives feared lost after small boat incident in Channel

The Government said ‘all relevant agencies’ are involved in the emergency response.

The Independent UK

Channel deaths: Braverman urged to quit after migrants die in crossing tragedy

Home secretary ‘has vilified the very people she now feigns sympathy with’, says PCS

The Independent UK

Migrants feared dead after small boat ‘capsizes’ in Channel amid freezing conditions

Dozens of people were onboard the boat when it got into difficulties

The Independent UK

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Coastguard launches search and rescue over small boat incident in the Channel

The Coastguard is working with the Royal Navy, Border Force, Kent Police and others to co-ordinate the response.

The Independent UK

Four people dead and another 40 rescued in English Channel as migrant boat sinks

Britain has seen yet another migrant tragedy in its waters today as a boat carrying between 40 and 50 people got into trouble in icy cold waters - four have tragcially died while 43 have been rescued in the early hours off the coast of Kent

Daily Mirror

Family of migrant who died at Manston detention centre found out through social media

Hussein Haseeb Ahmed, 31, died at the Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother Hospital in Margate, Kent, having crossed the Channel on a small boat seven days previously

Daily Mirror

Watchdog names social landlords in England with worst complaints records

Landlords in Kent, London and Devon named as housing ombudsman criticises ‘poor performance’

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Are trains still running in the snow?

‘We are slowly returning the railway to service this morning,’ says Network Rail Kent & Sussex

The Independent UK

Coca-Cola Christmas truck 2022: New locations revealed - check if it's your hometown

The annual trip began on November 25 in Dartford, Kent, going on to visit Renfrewshire in Scotland, London, Manchester, Bristol, West Yorkshire, Cardiff, Leeds, Bradford and Coventry

Daily Mirror

Boy 'scared and anxious' as vile parents who abused him could ask to be freed from jail

Jody Simpson and Anthony Smith abused and neglected their son, Tony Hudgell, which left the tot with life-changing fractures, organ failure and sepsis. The evil couple were jailed for 10 years

Daily Mirror

Shivering migrants brought ashore in Kent

An RNLI lifeboat brought one group ashore at Dungeness.

The Independent UK

School launches 'Covid-style protocols' as Strep A infection sweeps nation

One parent said Temple Grove Academy in Kent has gone above and beyond to protect its students after two children at the school became infected with the Strep A infection

Daily Mirror

First look at new £50million water park in the UK with surf pools and wave machines

The Seahive, which will open at the Betteshanger County Park near Deal in Kent, will be filled with surfing zones and splash areas which promise to be heaps of fun for families

Daily Mirror

‘Sick and twisted’ Bedsit Killer sentenced for necrophilia

David Fuller is already serving a whole life sentence for the sexually motivated murders of Wendy Knell and Caroline Pierce in Kent in 1987.

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Daily Mirror

Morgue monster David Fuller branded 'sick and twisted' as he's jailed for abusing 23 bodies

David Fuller, 68, misused his position as an electrician at the now-closed Kent and Sussex Hospital and the Tunbridge Wells Hospital, in Pembury to film himself abusing the corpses

The Guardian - UK

Kent family charged £80k in error after EDF sent £1m electricity bill

‘It was quite amusing, until it actually happened,’ says customer, after being left £75,000 overdrawn

Daily Mirror

Retired NHS consultant died from neglect on understaffed hospital ward, inquest finds

Dr David Gordon-Nesbitt, 84, suffocated when a drainage tube was left closed following an operation to remove bowel construction at Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother Hospital in Kent

Evening Standard

Watch as Kent woods opened to first free roaming bison in thousands of years

Public will now have a better chance of seeing the animals

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Teenage girl 'scarred for life' with chemical burns at migrant facility

A CHARITY says it is concerned by a report which reveals people at Kent processing centres were unable to wash for days and one teenage girl was…

The Independent UK

Migrant charity concerned after teenager ‘scarred for life’ at processing centre

A report, which details inspections carried out at three Kent migrant processing units in 2021, was published this week

Daily Mirror

Sixth UK child dies of Strep A as health chiefs give update on alarming outbreak

Muhammad Ibrahim Ali, Hanna Roap and three other unnamed children have all recently died with Strep A infection, with four of the tragic deaths having occurred within the last week

The Guardian - UK

A Garden of England walk to a great pub: the Samuel Palmer, Kent

A hike across hillsides captured in 19th-century watercolours ends at a revamped pub named in honour of the painter

Daily Mirror

Families given compensation over 'Morgue Monster' David Fuller murder case

David Fuller, a hospital electrician and and dad of four, 67, murdered two women and abused over 100 corpses, and pay-outs could be forthcoming totalling more than £6million

The Guardian - UK

The NHS test-and-trace failings that contributed to UK’s 2020 Covid Christmas

Gaps in contact-tracing and confused public health advice meant many infectious people not told to isolate

Evening Standard

Scandal-hit Manston centre visited by European torture monitor group

A ‘rapid reaction visit’ was carried out the site in Kent between November 25 to 28

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