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18th February 2021Tories pick Simon Webb for Coxheath & Hunton on Keep Our Villages Special ticket
COMMUNITY campaigner Simon Webb has been selected by the Conservatives to fight the borough council seat in the Coxheath and Hunton ward on May 6. Mr Webb, who spent most of his career in teaching ...
18th February 2021Heart of Kent Hospice chief Sarah Pugh moves on
HEART of Kent Hospice chief executive Sarah Pugh has decided to move on after six years in the job. Mrs Pugh has accepted the same role at the disabled children's charity Whizz-Kidz, which ...
SAVED: County council to protect community wardens after pandemic heroics
COMMUNITY wardens will not be scrapped in county hall cutbacks. Kent County Council, looking for savings as a result of the COVD-19 pandemic, decided to protect the valued service. The 70 Kent ...
Busy road near Maidstone set to shut until Sunday for water work
A busy road near Maidstone is set to be shut until next week. Kent Highways announced that Sheephurst Lane in Marden is to be closed until February 21. It is for works to be carried out by South ...
Offer to run troubled Kings Hill Sports Park 'rejected' by parish council
A NEW company has stepped in with an offer to run Kings Hill Sports Park as a deal was due to be struck with the not-for-profit TM Active provider. The Kedbull Leisure Group is a subsidiary of ...
Police appeal after boy, 10, 'abducted' near Maidstone by men and taken to woods
A 10-year-old boy was blindfolded by two men and taken to woods, it has been reported. The child was playing in Huntington Road, Coxheath, at the time of the alleged incident. Accoridng to reports, ...
MOTORWAY TRAGEDY: Man, 79, dies in smash near Maidstone - woman in hospital
A MAN aged 79 has died in a car smash near Maidstone. Police are appealing for information following the incident at Blue Bell Hill. A Kent Police statement said: "At 11.28am on Tuesday 16 ...
LATEST: Brexit red tape 'hitting small businesses hard'
A SUCCESSFUL Maidstone small business is among thousands across Britain and Europe facing serious damage because of major Customs import and export delays for shipment of both products and ...
LATEST: Huge fall in Maidstone infections - but spikes in Tovil and Coxheath
LATEST COVID-19 figures reveal another major drop in infections in both Maidstone and Malling – but large hikes in both Tovil and Coxheath/Loose areas. The KCC figure for Maidstone ...
400 positives in door-to-door testing but no South African variants to date
THE door-to-door testing of more than 12,000 residents required by Government in Maidstone postcodes (mostly ME15) revealed about 400 with COVID-19. But of the 100 analysed so far not ...