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27th November 2020M20 CLOSURE: Details of work to be carried out next week
THERE are extensive closures planned on the M20 in the coming days. These are to carry out work aimed at reducing congestion and improve journey times, according to contractor Kier and Highways ...
27th November 2020COMMUNITY: Linda sends Christmas love in a box to orphans
STAPLEHURST village has come together to help a great grandmother create Christmas shoeboxes for a cause close to her heart. When Linda Savage (72) stumbled across a Facebook post about an abused ...
JAMIE SIMMONS MURDER: Kieron Nicholson NOT GUILTY - breaking news
EAST Farleigh man Kieron Nicholson has been found not guilty of murdering devoted father of three Jamie Simmons. The jury took just three hours to reach its verdict at Maidstone Crown Court today to ...
CRASH: Woman injured in three-car collision in Maidstone
EMERGENCY crews were called to a three-car collisionin Maidstone last night. The crash happened in Sutton Road at around 6pm. Crews worked to free a womanwho was trapped in one of ...
NEW BUSINESS PARK: Woodcut Farm 'to create 1,000 jobs'
THIS is the first image of how the new business park to be built at Woodcut Farm is likely to look. The scheme, near junction eight of the M20, is designed to attract hundreds of jobs to the site ...
FUNDING BOOST: New church in Maidstone a step closer
THE construction of a new church in Maidstone, which will help to support a large new housing development near the centre of town is now a step closer. So far, more than £100,000 has been ...
SEIZED: Leon Wilson, 36, charged with heroin and crack cocaine supply
A SUSPECTED drug dealer has been charged after heroin and crack cocainewere seized at a Maidstone address. Officers from Kent Police’s County Line and Gang Team also seized two phones ...
LATEST: Maidstone will be in Tier 3 from December 2
Maidstone has just been placed by Government in the most severe tier three Cofid areas together with the rest of Kent. This applies from December 2 when the current lockdown ends. There will ...
HAZLITT VICTORY: Councillors overturn plan to shut theatre - for now
THE uncertain future of the Hazlitt Theatre has been given a reprieve after Maidstone Borough Council's plan to shut it andsack the operator was overturned. Councillors reversed the MBC ...
LATEST: Rotarians to run two town centre car parks in Maidstone
MEMBERS of the Rotary Club of Maidstone will be operating two town centre car parks for shoppers over three weekends in the run up to Christmas – provided the Covid-19 lockdown ends . They ...