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Council tax rebate: Local council takes £150 OUT of bank accounts instead of paying it

Residents have been left down £150 after a local council in north Kent accidentally removed money it should have been paying out as a government energy bill rebate

Daily Mirror

Port of call: there’s more to Dover than ferries, white cliffs and the A20

Kent’s coastal hub is seeing a revival, as new bars and restaurants join venues with a hidden history in a town that rewards exploration

The Guardian - UK

Senior dog chained to wall his entire life has zero applications at rescue centre

Natalia George, founder of Flori's Friends Rescue in Kent, saved nine-year-old greyhound Felix from a horrendous life chained to a wall, and is now searching for a family to show him what true love looks like

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Disabled gran lives by candlelight and eats just one meal a day due to soaring bills

Rita, a full-time carer from Kent, has removed all lightbulbs from her property and sets her alarm for 5am to make use of Economy 7 cheap off-peak electricity

Daily Mirror

Thug who abused baby is tied up and hit with homemade weapons by inmates in cell

Michael Stewart and Nathan Odgers have been jailed for locking Anthony Smith in a cell and beating him repeatedly with socks full of tuna at Swaleside Prison on the Isle of Sheppey, Kent

Daily Mirror

Three arrests after teenage cyclist killed in collision with car in Kent

The teenager was cycling a green Barracuda bicycle when was hit by a black VW Polo near Faversham at around 12.30am on Monday.

The Independent UK

Man bitten by 100 times by false widow spiders after infestation in his flat

Russell Davies, 55, says he has counted around 12 female spiders and roughly 10 males in his flat in Southborough near Tunbridge Wells, Kent since January 2020

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County cricket: Yorkshire frustrated by bad light and Kent resistance

Ben Compton became Division One’s top run-scorer before a valiant Kent rearguard on a day of draws all round

The Guardian - UK

Yorkshire’s Brook makes England case, Somerset earn first win – as it happened

Harry Brook made 194 against Kent with England selector James Taylor watching, while Somerset upset Warwickshire

The Guardian - UK

Yorkshire v Kent, Hampshire v Lancashire: county cricket – as it happened

Lancashire’s lower order recovered well against Hampshire while Northants are well on top against Essex

The Guardian - UK

Police share 'UK's messiest car' with mountain of Greggs and McDonald's wrappers

Kent Police uploaded a picture of "UK's messiest car" showing a mountain of rubbish of McDonald's and Foster's cans across the front seat - people have praised the protected Greggs in tongue-in-cheek replies

Daily Mirror

County cricket: Yorkshire’s Rauf runs through top order before Kent recover

Kent made a terrible start before Daniel Bell-Drummond led the fight back with a century, while Dane Patterson took eight for Notts

The Guardian - UK

Overgrown 'jungle' house that posties were forced to avoid finally trimmed back

The terrace home in Ramsgate, Kent, was such an out-of-control eyesore the postie gave up delivering letters years ago but neighbours spent last weekend giving the property a much-needed make-over

Daily Mirror

Man bitten by hundreds of spiders forced to sleep in tent to escape infestation

Russell Davies says housing association officers have refused to fumigate his flat in Southborough near Tunbridge Wells in Kent

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Girl, 3, with mystery hepatitis saved after dad donates part of his liver

Lola-Rose Raine, from Gravesend, Kent, has been spared death after receiving part of her dad Alan's liver in her battle against a mysterious form of hepatitis

The Guardian - UK

The School That Escaped the Nazis by Deborah Cadbury – review

The story of a co-educational boarding school that was spirited from Hitler’s Germany to the Kent countryside is structurally flawed but emotionally compelling

Daily Mirror

Supergran stops knifeman from killing ex-wife by SITTING on him - and she'd do it again

Katherine – just 5ft 3in tall – was with partner Roger Trask, 74, walking past a beauty salon in Tonbridge, Kent, when they heard frantic shouts for help from a colleague of the victim, mother-of-two Lien Dinh

Daily Mirror

House so overgrown with shrubs, trees and vines neighbour 'forced' to build new wall

One house in Ramsgate, east Kent, is so drastically overgrown it has left neighbours aghast and even forced one to build a whole new wall as vines and vegetation creep towards the neighbouring homes

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Buying in the London commuter belt: Home Counties hotspots with the most homes for sale at the lowest prices

New research ranks the commuter belt counties with the highest number of homes for sale with the lowest house prices

The Independent UK

Four teenagers charged with manslaughter as police name Kent victim

Police have named the victim as 42-year-old Dale Simmons.

Evening Standard

Talking Point: What do you think of the plan to process asylum seekers in Rwanda?

Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced the government’s plans to send “tens of thousands” of asylum seekers to Rwanda for processing at a speech in Kent, which has received widespread criticism from human rights groups and opposition political parties. Mr Johnson acknowledged such concerns in his address, and accepted that the…

The Independent UK

5,000-plus migrants thought to have reached UK this year after crossing Channel

Crossings resumed this week, with large numbers of people arriving in Kent, after few tried the journey in the last week of March amid bad weather.

Daily Mirror

Man who bought 1,000 Kinder Eggs now has to bin them over salmonella fears

Radley, 35, had planned to hand out the eggs during the Little Red Riding Hood Easter train ride on the Spa Valley Railway, from Tunbridge Wells, Kent, in his job as a children's entertainer

The Guardian - UK

Wayne Couzens requests trial by jury on indecent exposure charges

Sarah Everard’s killer accused of the flashing incidents in Swanley, Kent, in 2021

Daily Mirror

'Amazing and talented' couple who died in Canterbury tattoo parlour tragedy named

Catalin Micu, 54, and Ramona Stoia, 35, have been locally named as the those sadly found dead at an address in Lower Bridge Street, Canterbury, Kent

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