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29/01/2025

Traffic is slow after a car crashed into traffic lights near Medway Park

Full story: https://www.kentonline.co.uk/medway/news/traffic-slow-after-car-crashes-into-traffic-lights-319353/

29/01/2025

As a council launches another bid at city status, we find out if it’s something the public really want to happen.

Read more: https://www.kentonline.co.uk/medway/news/public-divided-over-fifth-city-status-bid-319336/

28/01/2025

Police have released a new image in the search for a man, last seen in Gillingham, who's been missing for more than a week. Full story here: https://www.kentonline.co.uk/medway/news/new-image-of-missing-man-who-speaks-limited-english-319344/

28/01/2025

Part of a major route has been blocked after a smash involving a lorry and a car. Full story here: https://www.kentonline.co.uk/maidstone/news/major-route-blocked-after-lorry-smash-319338/

28/01/2025

Ouch! The accident happened in the early hours...
Read the full story here 👉 https://www.kentonline.co.uk/medway/news/breakdown-in-communication-led-to-rail-worker-being-injure-319330/

28/01/2025

A hospital is still waiting for a health watchdog's report a year after inspectors visited

Full story: https://www.kentonline.co.uk/medway/news/hospital-still-waiting-for-watchdog-report-a-year-after-visi-319274/

27/01/2025

The motion was called in relation to BAE systems and the war in Gaza

A motion calling for a council to put pressure on the government and a major Kent business over the Gaza conflict has been overwhelmingly rejected.

27/01/2025

More redundancies have been proposed for the university…

Staff at a Kent university have been told they can apply for voluntary redundancy as it plans to save millions of pounds by reducing numbers.

27/01/2025

A Kent detective sergeant has been sacked after s*xually touching a junior female colleague twice – including inside a police station. Full story here: https://www.kentonline.co.uk/kent/news/police-detective-sacked-after-s*xually-touching-junior-offic-319266/

27/01/2025

A derelict secondary school site has been earmarked for a new Aldi store

Full story: https://kentonline.co.uk/medway/news/aldi-reveals-store-plans-for-derelict-school-site-with-asbe-319270/

27/01/2025

A drug dealer who subjected a vulnerable woman to violence and repeated r**e after he took over her home for his illicit enterprise has been jailed.
Full story: https://www.kentonline.co.uk/medway/news/drug-dealer-took-over-woman-s-house-and-threatened-to-throw-319263/

27/01/2025

A Medway Council meeting was brought to an abrupt pause after officers had to step in to warn councillors against approving a potentially unlawful motion relating to Chatham Docks

Full story: https://www.kentonline.co.uk/medway/news/motion-asking-to-save-docks-potentially-unlawful-warns-c-319259/

27/01/2025

Three people at the centre of a prostitution and brothel ring which had spread across the “whole of England” will be sentenced later this year

Three people at the centre of a prostitution and brothel ring which ran 36 s*x sites across the country, including Kent, are due to be sentenced.

27/01/2025

A 21-year-old man has been charged with attempted murder after a teen stabbing at a home

Read more here: https://kentonline.co.uk/medway/news/man-21-charged-with-attempted-murder-after-teen-stabbing-319242/

27/01/2025

It feels like pubs, shops and restaurants are being turned into houses on every high street. We take a look at why that is: https://www.kentonline.co.uk/kent/news/it-doesn-t-matter-if-it-s-a-shop-pub-or-restaurant-it-s-319172/

27/01/2025

New figures reveal how many children want to join every school in Kent this September - and show the damaging impact of a poor Ofsted rating.

Full story here: https://www.kentonline.co.uk/kent/news/revealed-the-kent-schools-struggling-to-attract-pupils-afte-319173/

27/01/2025

The council have big plans for Blue Bell Hill, but a small butterfly could put a spanner in the works.

Find out more here: https://www.kentonline.co.uk/maidstone/news/to-destroy-this-wildlife-for-the-sake-of-a-road-would-be-bo-319168/

27/01/2025

Police have launched an appeal to find a 23-year-old missing man.

Read more: https://www.kentonline.co.uk/medway/news/officers-concerned-for-welfare-of-missing-man-319234/