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Swale Heating commercial contract manager Matt Hobbs braved the cold to spend the night in a cardboard box to help raise funds for Kent-based homeless charity Emmaus and the Alzheimer’s Society.

Kent women are being urged to join the fight against all 200 cancers by entering Cancer Research UK’s Race for Life at Folkestone and venues across the county.

A concert being held in Folkestone later this month will be honouring local comedian Dave Lee who sadly died on Monday (16 January).
 

Over £5,300 which had been seized from two criminals convicted of drugs offences during 2011 has been presented to the Shepway Autism Support Group.

Dear Editor,
The Board of the "Leleka" Fund is writing hope that we will find support and help for our work with children of Ukraine.

Folkestone West representative on Kent County Council (KCC) and other Kent Lib Dems are delighted that their annual Christmas dress-down day at the council raised £588.62 for the Kent Fund for Children.

Kent Trading Standards has received a report of a business dropping off plastic bags apparently for a Lithuanian charity which refers to supporting causes against breast cancer.

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Legendary former stunt rider Eddie Kidd met up with his friend David Hebditch, of Portland Studios in Sandgate this week to arrange a Celebrity Ball to support Eddie's charity.

A Kent charity has marked its 20th anniversary of helping terminally ill children and adults in Romania by launching an appeal to raise £750,000 to build two new hospices in a country where the struggling healthcare system offers no safety net for the poor and vulnerable.