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Kent Police was called at 2.30pm on Sunday 21 June 2020 to Palace Street, Canterbury, following reports a person had been assaulted. A 17-year-old boy was airlifted to a London hospital with injuries consistent with a stab wound...
A Snodland property associated with persistent drug activity and anti-social behaviour has been issued with a closure order. Kent Police applied for the order at Maidstone Magistrates’ Court following concerns raised by residents about an...
Police in Surrey have arrested a man on suspicion of attempt murder following incident in Warren Rd #Reigate 5.40pm on Sunday afternoon. A woman was rushed to hospital after being assaulted and remains in serious condition. The man, 45, from...
Northdown Park Road in Cliftonville is closed following a crash between a motorcycle and a car shortly before 3pm on Sunday afternoon. An air ambulance landed in a field off Millmead Road and has flown a patient to Kings College hospital in London
Kent Police was called at 2.30pm on Sunday 21 June 2020 to Palace Street, Canterbury following reports a man had been assaulted. A 17-year-old has been air lifted to a London hospital with injuries consistent with a stab wound. His injuries are...
Officers from the Serious Collision Investigation Unit are appealing for witness to a collision in Sittingbourne. Kent Police was called at 6.40pm on Saturday 20 June 2020 to a report of a collision between a blue Volkswagen Golf and a cyclist on...
A woman had a lucky escape at Bromley South Station this morning. Emergency services were called at 9:52am to a person on the track possibly hit by a train. The woman was found to have not suffered any serious injuries and was taken to a local...
A person has been hit by a train at Bromley South shortly before 10am this morning. Rail lines have now reopened now since the incident.
A 41-year-old man found unresponsive at The Parade on Friday afternoon, following an assault, died in hospital today. Police say they arrested a 42-year-old man today on suspicion of murder and he remains in custody. Witnesses can call 101...
Police are urging people to be aware of potentially dangerous blue pills after several people have been taken ill in Brighton. Officers were made aware of a number of people being admitted to the Royal Sussex County Hospital overnight on Friday...
A serious assault has taken place in the Hoblingwell Wood Recreation Ground area, off Mickleham Road, in Orpington at around 4pm on Friday. The London Air ambulance attended and the man in his 20’s was treated for a serious stab wound. The...
Police were called at 4:18pm today to an assault at The Parade in Crayford. An unresponsive man in his 40s was found. One person who asked not to be named said a group attacked the man and kicked his head around like a football whilst he was...
A prolific Maidstone burglar who was identified on town centre CCTV by a local PCSO has been jailed. Charles Traverso was arrested after he was caught on camera breaking into a restaurant in Medway Street, where he stole alcohol and around...
Officers investigating two robberies in Gravesend have charged a man. At around 10.20pm on 2 June 2020 Kent Police officers were on a routine patrol when they were flagged down by a man reporting he had been robbed. The victim told police a...
An investigation has been launched by Kent Police after ten computers were reported stolen from Canterbury Christchurch University. Officers have released the image of two men who may be able to help them with their enquiries following the...
Ahead of planned demonstrations, Commander Alex Murray, spokesperson for this weekend in London, said: “We remain in a health pandemic, and once again would encourage people to comply with the regulations of not gathering in groups larger than six...
Vodafone UK’s mobile network is having interconnection issues with landline telephone network; calls time out and get released.
Three people have been treated by London Ambulance Service and taken to hospital following an explosion that shook buildings 200 metres away and a fire at on Church Manorway around 9:10am on Friday morning. The men were understood to have...
Fire crews from Kent fire have been mobilsed after an explosion has taken place in Erith. Six fire engines and around 40 firefighters are at an industrial unit on Church Manorway. A loud explosion which shook nearby buildings and flames were...
Police seek witnesses after a man in his 20s died after being hit by a light blue Ford Focus at the junction of Boundary Road and King Street around 3:45am this morning. He’s been named locally as Alex Taylor, a “lovely harmless guy”. Anyone with...
Two men are due in court following a reported distraction burglary in Margate. Kent Police was contacted after a woman in her 90s reported that a bag containing bank books, cash and jewellery had been stolen from her home in the Churchfields...
The Met has today released 35 images of people wanted in connection with the investigation into violent clashes in central London during recent demonstrations. Commander Bas Javid said: “Over the past month, there have been a number of...
Customers on the Vodafone networks have been suffering from a major coverage issues despite Vodafone themselves saying that work that they have carried has been pointless to both themselves and their long suffering customers in the Maidstone area...
Campaigners against live animal exports held a protest in Ramsgate on Thursday (June 18) as the transport of animals through the port resumes. Two lorries carrying sheep held stopped by protestors as they arrived in Ramsgate at just after 4pm ready...
A suspected burglar has been charged with 10 offences in Gillingham. On 12 April burglaries were reported in South Avenue where two cars were stolen from a driveway, and a designer coat was taken from inside a porch at another property. Residents...
Collision investigators are appealing for witnesses following a fatal collision in Ramsgate. At around 3.45am on Thursday 18 June 2020, a collision involving a pedestrian and a light blue Ford Focus took place on Boundary Road at its junction...
The M2 motorway near Faversham has been closed with traffic stopped on the Eastbound carriage after a vehicle has overturned. Emergency services were called just after 11am on Thursday morning. A silver Land Rover discovery has been in collision...
The M2 motorway near Faversham has been closed with traffic stopped on the Eastbound carriage after a vehicle has overturned. Emergency services were called just after 11am on Thursday morning. Officers from Kent Police closed whilst they ...
Can you help police find 16-year-old Maisie Young, who is missing from her home in #Witham? Maisie was reported missing in the early hours of this morning, Wednesday 17 June. Officers believe she may be in #SilverEnd, and would ask local residents...
Roads policing officers have placed 20 defibrillators within their vehicles to help save lives in #Essex.Officers have put defibrillators in 10 vehicles operated by Chigwell Roads Policing Unit and 10 vehicles managed by Stanway Roads Policing...
A suspected thief has been charged after a motorcycle was stolen from a Tonbridge address. At around 5.25am on Tuesday 16 June 2020, officers were called to suspicious activity in Coventry Road. Patrols searched the area and saw two men in...
Two men have appeared in court charged with burgling a supermarket in Margate. Kent Police received a report that cigarettes and alcohol had been stolen from the Co-op in Summerfield Road shortly after midnight on Wednesday 10 June 2020...
Officers are appealing for information after a teenage boy was injured in an assault. The incident happened in King Street, Ramsgate at around 12.50am on Tuesday, 16 June 2020. The boy had an altercation with another teenager who reportedly...
Dungeness Coastguard Team was paged at 18.51 hrs today to a vehicle that had become stuck on the beach at Dymchurch. The Coastguard team had a contact for the local farmers who came to the aid of the owner and pulled the vehicle clear of the water...
A CCTV image has been issued following allegations of assault against a shop worker in Maidstone. At around 9.30pm on Friday 5 June 2020 a man entered Tesco Express in Week Street and selected three bottles of wine. The man headed to a self-service...
A suspected robber is to appear in court charged with multiple offences following incidents in Ashford. Peter Osbourne, 34, of High Street, Ashford was charged on Friday 12 June 2020 with the following offences in relation to incidents on 10...
Kent Police was called to Folkestone Road at 7.30pm on Monday 1 June 2020 following a report that a man had been assaulted. James Stott, of Clarendon Street, Dover, has since been charged with causing grievous bodily harm with intent. The 31...
A suspected burglar has appeared in court following a break in at a house in Wainscott. Paul Stone, 44, of Hyacinth Road, Strood, has been charged with one count of burglary and appeared before Medway Magistrates’ Court on 15 June. Mr Stone...
A nuisance caller who cost the emergency services nearly £500,000 in wasted resources has been handed a two year prison sentence. Sharna Dixon made more than 700 malicious calls and on one occasion broke a Kent Police officer’s wrist...
Kent Police are we seek witnesses after a silver Mercedes E350 collided with a BMW at the junction with Lennox Rd and then hit four stationary vehicles and a wall in Pelham Rd 6:40pm yesterday. A man was arrested on suspicion of dangerous driving...
Witnesses are being sought to a collision involving several vehicles in Gravesend. On 14 June at around 6.40pm a silver Mercedes E350 collided with a grey BMW 320D at the junction with Lennox Road before colliding with four stationary...
CCTV images have been released by detectives investigating a robbery in Maidstone. At around 8.35pm on Tuesday 2 June 2020, a man in his 50s spoke to two men in Brenchley Gardens he had met previously. The three walked through the town centre to...
A 28-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of outraging public decency after a man was photographed apparently urinating on the memorial dedicated to PC Keith Palmer. The incident is believed to have taken place in the afternoon of Saturday...
Investigators are appealing for information about a fatal collision on the M20 in the early hours of this morning in which a woman in her 20s was fatally injured. Kent Police were called at 3.10am on Sunday, 14 June 2020...
The M20 in Kent remains closed in both direction between J10A (Ashford) and J11 (Canterbury) following the death of a woman in the early hours of Sunday morning. The incident and investigation is being led by Kent Police. All...
The M20 in Kent is closed eastbound between J10A (Ashford) and J11 (Cantebury) following a single vehicle life changing collision. The incident and investigation is being led by Kent Police. All lanes of the M20 eastbound have been closed near...
Police say the 29-year-old man reported missing from #Maidstone has been found safe and well. They have asked to thanks to everyone who shared our appeal to locate him.
A major police operation took place in central London today (Saturday, 13 June) after thousands of people travelled into the capital to protest. In advance of these demonstrations, the Metropolitan Police imposed a series of conditions...
