The Latest Breaking News from Kent

Latest group are among scores of people removed from Manston immigration centre in Kent by Home Office with no offer of shelter

Kent facility opened in January intended for short-term detention and processing of applicants but is already struggling with overcrowding after high number of Channel crossings

Migrants being held in the Manston processing centre have begged for help as they described the conditions as a “prison”.A young girl threw a bottle containing a letter over the perimeter fence to a PA news agency photographer on Wednesday afternoon which claimed there were pregnant women and sick detainees…

Suella Braverman dodged questions from the press during her trip to Kent.

The UK needs new workers and people want to come here. The real problem is populist politics, says Guardian columnist Simon Jenkins

According to defence analysts writing for the UK Defence Journal, a Chinook costs about £3,500 per hour to fly.

Home Secretary Suella Braverman travelled the short distance from Dover to Manston - 30 minutes in a car - by £30 million, twin-rotor support aircraft - so she could look at the Channel coastline. There weren't any boats.

Suella Braverman was touring several sites in Kent on Thursday

When you imagine life for ordinary people in ancient Britain, you’d be forgiven for picturing quaint villages where everyone looked and spoke the same way. But a recent study could change the way historians think about early medieval communities.