News

Forecasters are predicting up to 10cm of snow tonight in south-east England as rain from the Atlantic will come up against the cold air and turn to snow as it moves further east.

The Leader of Dover District Council is welcoming news that DFDS/LD Lines have announced the start of a new Calais-Dover service from 17 February.
 

A total of 732 motorists were caught speeding by the five fixed speed cameras sited across Shepway in 2010 according to official figures just released.

Folkestone and Hythe is third in a table of homes at risk of flooding in England and Wales according the Association of British Insurers (ABI).

Kent Police is linking an attempted theft at a shop in Biddenden in the early hours of Tuesday (31 January 2012) to previous ones at village stores near Ashford.

Two Polish men have been sentenced to a total of four years and eight months in prison after pleading guilty to attempting to smuggle approximately 30 kilos of herbal cannabis and half a kilo of cannabis resin into the UK.

The appointment of the curator for the third Folkestone Triennial in 2014 has been announced.

Magistrates at Folkestone have ordered a landowner to allow the public onto land that had been fenced off at Capel-le-Ferne.

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.

Water consumers in Kent will see their bills rise by almost 7 percent from April 2012.