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Summer getaway halted by ‘woefully inadequate’ French border staffing at Dover

Holidaymakers booked on sailings from the Kent port reported being stuck in five-hour queues to complete border checks.

The Independent UK

Man hailed 'legend' for sitting on top of his car to block police speed check van

Motorist Dennis Richardson filmed the man casually sitting on the roof of a grey Nissan and waving at passing cars as he blocked the camera in Maidstone, Kent on Sunday

Daily Mirror

‘Damning’ report slams ‘poor’ Home Office response to Channel crossings

Chief Inspector of Borders and Immigration David Neal looked at how the Government processes migrants when they arrive in Kent.

The Independent UK

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Dog finally reunited with family who fled war-torn Ukraine and found new life in UK

Liliya, 45, and her children, Artur, 21, Karolina, 19 and Lev, 15, arrived in the UK on April 29 after fleeing Ukraine. They left their dog Khabib in France and then he was taken to Canterbury, Kent

Daily Mirror

Wild BISON released into UK countryside to roam free for first time in 30,000 years

The wild bison have been released in two locations near Canterbury in Kent where further animals will follow including Exmoor ponies, Longhorn cattle and Iron Age pigs

Daily Mirror

Bison set for release into ancient Kent woodland to help nature and climate crises

The move forms part of a £1.12 million project to manage woods near Canterbury

Evening Standard

Wild bison return to UK for first time in thousands of years

The gentle giants released in Kent should transform a commercial pine forest into a vibrant natural woodland

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Ed Sheeran spends £650,000 on converted railway carriage beach getaway in Kent

Ed Sheeran has spent a number of years creating and expanding his Suffolk estate and has now turned to the south coast for his next venture - a converted 1880s railway carriage

Daily Mirror

Headmistress smuggled her pupils from Nazi Germany school to new start in Kent

In extracts from her book, The School That Escaped The Nazis, author Deborah Cadbury tells of the exodus and the tales of survival of some of the pupils who escaped Nazi Germany

Daily Mirror

Kent safari park first in Europe where visitors can meet three species of rhino

Port Lympne Reserve, near Hythe, has recently taken in an Indian rhino.

The Independent UK

UK heatwave: Schoolboy put in ‘prison-like’ isolation room for wearing shorts as temperatures soared

Temperatures rose to over 30C for Kent and other southern parts of England

The Independent UK

Boy, 13, forced to sit in 'prison' isolation room for wearing shorts during heatwave

Harrison Utting, 13, was sent to a special room as punishment for turning up to Westlands School in Sittingbourne, Kent, in shorts on Monday morning and the following day

Daily Mirror

Tory MP slammed as 'cruel' and 'irresponsible' for walking dog in heatwave

Fellow dog owners slammed the MP for going on the walk from Ramsgate to Broadstairs, Kent, when temperatures rocketed to 28C - but he insists it wasn't that hot where they walked

Daily Mirror

More migrants arrive in Kent as crossings resume

Last week the Ministry of Defence recorded 607 people arriving in the UK in 15 boats over five days.

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Pensioners fume at Aldi after being left with trolley in garden for seven weeks

Betty and Pat Burke, from Deal in Kent, were left raging after a discarded supermarket trolley found in an alleyway near their house wasn't picked up for seven weeks - despite cleaning it up

The Independent UK

Callum Wheeler: The ‘angry, violent’ killer who murdered PCSO and threatened to attack again if freed

‘Highly sexualised’ 22-year-old exposed himself to female officers after his arrest

The Guardian - UK

Julia James murder: man jailed for minimum of 37 years for killing PCSO

Callum Wheeler ambushed 53-year-old while she was walking her dog near her Kent home in April last year

The Independent UK

Julia James murder: Callum Wheeler jailed for life for killing PCSO as she walked dog

Mother of two beaten to death with metal railway jack in ‘sexually motivated’ attack in woods near her home

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Evening Standard

Killer jailed for 37 years after murdering PCSO Julia James

The man who murdered PCSO Julia James as she walked her Jack Russell in the woods near her home in Kent has been jailed.

Daily Mirror

Killer jailed for murdering PCSO Julia James in woods after 'waiting for a lone woman'

Mum-of-two Julia James, 53, was beaten to death as she walked her Jack Russell dog Toby in the countryside near her home in Snowdown, Kent in a planned attack

Daily Mirror

Hotel boss pocketed £470,000 by keeping tax and NI deductions from staff's wages

A court heard how Michael Stainer put 50 of his employees at risk when he managed The Grand hotel in Folkestone, Kent

The Independent UK

Drivers clocked at almost double speed limit in M20 Operation Brock 50mph zone

The Operation Brock zone is between junctions eight and nine of the M20.

Wales Online

Kent holidaymaker dies in holiday swimming incident in north Devon

Air ambulance called to scene

The Independent UK

Depressed security guard reveals how Mark Wahlberg changed his life with seven words

Kent father Jamie Humphrey, 33, was a security guard on the set of the movie Infinite in 2019 when a chance encounter with Wahlberg changed his life

The Independent UK

More migrants arrive in Kent as crossings resume

Crossings resumed after a three-day hiatus, with a woman also seen being helped ashore and then pushed away in a wheelchair in Dover.

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