Officers investigating an incident in which a man threatened a member of rail staff with violence at Greenhithe station have released an image of...
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A motorcyclist who fatally injured a teenager has been jailed for five years and three months. Robert Varrier, 29, of Limehouse Court, Sittingbourne, dangerously drove an off-road motorcycle on a residential street on 16 April 2020 before he...
CCTV images of a man officers would like to speak with have been issued by Kent Police. Detectives believe the person in the pictures will have important information that can help them investigate reports of two teenage girls being approached...
A man has been found dead in a woodland in Maidstone we sadly report this evening. A close friend of man revealed that he was found by after the alarm was raised by a concerned family member who contacted Police. The body was found on Thursday...
Emergency services have been called to a wooded area in Delting on the outskirts of Maidstone in Kent this afternoon (Thursday 9th July 2020). Police Fire and Paramedics were called called shortly 4pm on Thursday to Scragged Oak Road...
Detectives have released CCTV footage of a suspect they want to speak to in connection to of a burglary that took place in Orpington, Bromley. On Friday, 19 June, at 8.45pm, an address in Wateringbury Close, Orpington, Bromley, BR5 was burgled. The...
Cash has been seized and a vulnerable woman has been safeguarded following a warrant at a suspected brothel in Canterbury. Officers from Canterbury’s Community Policing Team attended the property in Great Stour Mews on the morning of...
A multi-agency investigation is ongoing following the collapse of a crane into a residential property and building site in Bow, E3. Police were called at approximately 2.30pm on Wednesday, 8 July, to Gale Street, E3. Officers attended with LAS and...
Police and Highways England have closed all lanes on a major section of the M25 clockwise at the Clacket Lane services between Junction 4 and Junction 6 following a serious collision involving a car and lorry. The collision happened just after 8am...
These distressing pictures show the remains of seagulls which were ‘deliberately’ killed by a motorist who drove over them – leaving one alive with its wing hanging off. Eye-witnesses claim the driver mowed down the flock of two birds...
A fourth man has been charged with murder following a fatal shooting in Cheam. Lee Matthews, 25 of no fixed address was charged late on Wednesday, 8 July with the murder of Kyle Kelson. He was also charged with possession of a firearm with intent...
A teenage drug dealer has been found guilty of murdering a man whom he chased and stabbed to death in Medway. Nathan Kitenge, 18, of King Edward’s Road in Barking, east London, travelled to Gillingham by rail on the morning of Friday 20 December...
A Faversham man has been jailed for nine years after admitting 15 offences linked to child sexual abuse. Richard Cumberland was arrested by Kent Police in May 2017 and officers went on to find over 150 indecent videos or photos on electrical...
Police are appealing for information following a reported assault in Dane Park in Margate. Officers were called at 2.25am on Tuesday 7 July 2020 after a man reported that he was approached by two men and assaulted near Dane Road. The man...
A suspect has appeared in court following a reported robbery at a Herne Bay petrol station. Kent Police was called to the petrol station in King’s Road at 9.50am on Tuesday 7 July 2020 following reports a man had stolen cigarettes. Michael...
A suspect has been arrested in connection with a series of incidents relating to criminal damage to charity shops in parts of west Kent. The 43-year-old man from east London was arrested in the Waltham Forest area, at around 8.30am on Wednesday...
The Sheerness Lifeboat crew rescued a man from a small boat sinking in the Harbour around 12:35am on Wednesday morning. A second man swam ashore. The boat’s hull is thought to have been holed on rocks when something broke as it was being...
Detectives investigating multiple reports of stolen cars, vans and caravans in Kent have charged two people. Martin Ward, 46 of Goudhurst Road, Gillingham and Owen Maughan, 42, of Spade Lane, Sittingbourne were arrested on Tuesday 7 July 2020...
A video capturing the arrest of a man claiming he could not breathe while being held to the ground by police is to be reviewed by West Sussex Police bosses we can reveal. They have yet to confirmed the man had made an official complaint and if they...
A big crane has fallen in Watts Grove in Tower Hamlets area Emergency services are at the scene of an incident in Bow, where a crane has collapsed onto at least two building, one has been badly crushed. One man is understood to have been...
Big crane has fallen in Watts Grove in Tower Hamlets area
Six fire engines and around 40 firefighters were called to a fire at a flat on Felspar Close in Plumstead. A four-roomed flat on the sixth floor of the building was destroyed by fire. Around 30 people left the building before the Brigade arrived...
During the early hours of this morning, Wednesday, 8 July, officers arrested a number of people believed to be responsible for instigating violence during recent protests and demonstrations in London. Those arrested this morning, and who remain in...
Five people, including a serving Metropolitan Police officer, have been charged with offences related to a conspiracy to acquire criminal property contrary to section 1(1) of the Criminal law Act 1977. Between the 1st day of January 2020 and the...
PC Liz Ferris was off-duty driving in #Tiptree when she came across an unresponsive motorcyclist in the road. Liz, who has over 15 years’ experience with Essex Police, put her training into practice and performed CPR for up to 15 minutes until...
Emergency services are dealing with an incident near to #Ramsgate station. Trains in the area are being delayed whilst the power is switched off to allow the emergency services to attend the incident safely.
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Police are concerned for the safety of 16yr old missing person Taylor White.
Taylor is believed in the Colindale Hendon area of London.
She is missing from Lancashire. Any sightings call 999 and quote 20MIS22596
The driver of a lorry that ploughed into a barrier on the M25 was declared dead at the scene. Police and paramedics were called to the anticlockwise carriageway, between junction 2 for the Darenth Interchange, and junction 1A for the Dartford...
The A282/M25 in Kent is currently experiencing severe delays between J4 and J1A due to an earlier collision which caused the carriageway to be closed for several hours. Delays between J4 and J1A are expected to add at least 120 minutes to average...
A man has been jailed after he stabbed his victim with a pair of scissors in Ashford town centre. Sari Alkhafaji left the man with two puncture wounds following the assault in Middle Row on the afternoon of Sunday 12 January 2020. The 28-year...
Direct high-speed train services from Amsterdam to London will be possible later this year, after new agreements were signed today (7 July). For these services to operate, existing agreements between the UK, France and Belgium signed in 1993 have...
A Tunbridge Wells man who sexually abused a child almost 20 years ago has been jailed. Jonathan Howard was sentenced to three years and four months’ imprisonment, following convictions for offences which took place between March and June 2001...
A man has been sentenced for sexual activity with a young girl in south-east London after pleading guilty in court. Joshua Dee, 21 , of Lewisham, was sentenced at Woolwich Crown Court on Monday, 6 July for sexual activity with a child; sexual...
M25/A282 now closed between J2 and J1a towards the Dartford Tunnels. Lorry crashed into barriers. Reports the driver may have suffered a medical emergency. The A282/M25 in Kent is currently closed between J2 and J1A due to a collision. The...
An alleged fraudster has been charged with 12 offences committed in Rochester and Sittingbourne. Across October and November 2019, Mandy Gladwin is alleged to have altered three cheques that were given to her by people who believed...
The Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police Service, Cressida Dick has paid tribute to the 52 people who died on the 7th July 2005 and to the hundreds of people that were injured. The Commissioner, said: “Today, we remember the 52 people who lost...
Witnesses are sought by officers investigating reports of concern for a woman in Sittingbourne. On 4 July 2020 Kent Police was called after a group of people were seen in Ridham Avenue, Sittingbourne, where they appeared to be arguing. ...
Traffic is being held on the M25 clockwise between junctions between J1A and J1B due to a vehicle being ablaze.
The hard shoulder and lane 1 are closed.
Fire crews from Kent fire and Rescue at on scene dealing with the incident
Detectives have named a woman who was fatally stabbed in Greenwich. Police were called to the Holiday Inn on Bugsby’s Way, SE10 at 10:02hrs on Sunday, 5 July, to a report of a woman stabbed. Officers and the London Ambulance Service attended and a...
Face-to-face assessments to remain suspended, but kept under review Some review and reassessment activity to gradually resume from July 2020 for Personal Independence Payment (PIP) and Disability Living Allowance (DLA) People are encouraged not to...
Two men have been arrested as part of a Kent Police investigation into a robbery in Ramsgate. A man in his 50s reported he was walking his dog when he was approached by two men in Victoria Road at around 12.45am on Monday 6 July 2020. They...
The weekly NHS Test and Trace statistics have been published, showing that more than 130,000 that may have otherwise have been at risk of unknowingly spreading the virus have been reached and asked to self-isolate Weekly statistics have been...
A cannabis cultivation has been found after three men were arrested at the Dartford Crossing. Officers stopped a white van near the crossing at around 12.30am on 3 July 2020 and having searched the vehicle police found what was believed to be...
A man caught supplying cocaine from a car park in Tunbridge Wells has become the latest drug dealer in the town to be sentenced to prison. Endrit Cerpja was found with supplies of cocaine, cannabis and a fake driving licence...
A computer-generated image has been released by officers after a man was reported to have carried out gardening work at a Rochester home without permission. The suspect is alleged to have followed an elderly woman to her house in Weller Avenue...
Have you seen Louise? She is 17 years old and she is missing from Wallington. Police say she has was last seen Thursday 02/07/20. The teenager has connections and visits Birchington on Sea, North Kent. Anyone with information is asked to call 101...
A young woman has escaped with minor injuries after clipping a parked vehicle and rolling her car over into the path of an oncoming car on the High Street in Littlebourne at around 8:30am this morning. Fire crews from Kent Fire and rescue had to...
Robbery charges have been authorised against a man who is accused of stealing money from a taxi driver in Chatham. Lee Miller is alleged to have taken a small quantity of cash from the victim in Bryant Street at around 10.30pm on Monday 29...
A 30-year-old man from London was arrested on Repton Manor Road, Ashford, around 11:05am Saturday for suspected theft of a motorcycle, dangerous driving, failing to stop for police and failing to provide a breath test. His 25-year-old passenger was...
