The Latest Breaking News from Kent

Paul Webb said he ensured books and material were pulled from children’s section of Kent libraries, but it emerges they were never there

Kent County Council leader claims removing ‘trans material’ from shelves is ‘victory for common sense in Kent’

The moment a Kent father who killed his baby daughter by shaking her so hard he caused “catastrophic” brain injuries that led to her death was arrested was filmed on police bodycam footage.

The previous warmest day of 2025 was June 21 when 33.2C was recorded in Charlwood, Surrey.

A boat got into trouble off the Kent coast while carrying 47 people on December 14 2022.

The group are accused of advertising illegal lorry crossings from France on social media and moving migrants from HGV stops in Kent to London.

Met Police, Home Office and NCA storm homes and cafes believed to be used by smuggling gang who advertised illegal crossings to the UK on social media

COMMENT: Multi-millionaire businesswoman Dr Ann Kaplan Mulholland – who is moving from her Kent castle to Italy, for the more favourable tax jurisdiction – says Labour is running out of time to rethink its flagship plan to scrap non-dom status… and that Nigel Farage’s idea for the super-rich to pay…

Emma Reynolds came unstuck over questions about the cost and location of the flagship infrastructure scheme

A major storm reached Kent at around 10pm on Friday, prompting an amber weather warning.

More than 30,000 lightning strikes were recorded up to 6am on Saturday as storms push northwards