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Council Updates Sevenoaks park to close for nine months as Bradbourne Lakes restoration begins in September
Bradbourne Lakes in Sevenoaks will shut to the public from 28 September 2026 until early summer 2027 while the district council carries out…
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Council Updates Maidstone Council Objects to Quarry Plan That Could Destroy Ancient Woodland
Maidstone Borough Council has formally objected to Kent County Council’s draft mineral extraction plan, warning that proposed quarrying…
18 September 2026 -
Local News Maidstone Borough Council website: what services and events are available now
From bin collections and Council Tax to a Hollywood costumes exhibition and a leather-making workshop, Maidstone Borough Council’s website…
18 September 2026 -
Council Updates Nearly £179,000 spent upgrading Tonbridge Racecourse Sportsground facilities
Tonbridge & Malling Borough Council’s Communities and Environment Scrutiny Select Committee received an update on 17 September 2026 on a…
18 September 2026 -
Council Updates Heathlands garden community scoping opinion approved with strengthened requirements for water and railway station
Maidstone’s planning committee voted unanimously to issue an environmental scoping opinion for the proposed 5,000-home Heathlands Garden…
18 September 2026 -
Council Updates Dartford board backs council’s position in Green Belt enforcement appeal at Green Street Green Road
Dartford’s Development Control Board voted seven to one at its July meeting to support the council’s approach in defending an enforcement…
18 September 2026 -
Council Updates Dartford board grants permission for three homes on former industrial site at Southfleet
Dartford’s Development Control Board voted unanimously at its July meeting to approve the demolition of light industrial buildings at…
18 September 2026 -
Council Updates More than one in four new Medway Council staff leave within their first year, workforce report reveals
Medway Council’s annual workforce report showed overall staff turnover fell to 9.7% in 2025/26, but first-year turnover remained high at…
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Local News ‘Predators live in silence’: the Kent care specialist who wants adults to stop whispering about abuse
Lucy Clifford spent more than eight years in a Medway children’s home and five as a deputy head of care. Her memoir, published on 18…
18 September 2026 -
Crime & Justice Police seek witnesses after M20 patrol car collision near Charing
An unmarked Kent Police car responding to a fatal crash in Tilmanstone was involved in a collision with a blue Nissan Qashqai on the M20…
17 September 2026 -
Crime & Justice Ashford woman charged with four thefts across Kent villages
Shantel Brooker, 37, of Falcon Way, Ashford, appeared before Folkestone magistrates on 12 September 2026 charged with four theft offences…
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Crime & Justice Three Kent Police officers honoured for saving man’s life after Sheerness crash
PC Braden Farrow, PC Abbie Penfold and PC Emily Savage received Royal Humane Society recognition after keeping a trapped, unconscious…
17 September 2026