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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Schools, colleges and nurseries across England remain on track to open to more children from 1 June, the Prime Minister confirmed today (24 May 2020). Primary schools will welcome back children in Reception, Year 1 and Year 6, while nurseries and...
Boris answers the big question that people have been asking in the last 48 hours. And that is – is this Government asking you – the people, the public, to do one thing while senior people here in government do something else? Have we been...
An arrest has been made after concerned residents reported seeing a man with a knife in Margate. Kent Police was called to attend Lower Northdown Avenue, Margate, at around 7pm on Saturday 23 May to respond to a man causing a disturbance. During...
Enquiries are underway following the death of a man in Ashford. Officers from the Kent and Essex Serious Crime Directorate have commenced an investigation after the body of a man was reported to have been found at 4.28pm on Saturday 23 May...
A major search has been called overnight has been called off after a man’s body was found. In the early hours of Saturday morning officers issued an appeal to locate Leon Junior, who was reported missing from the Northfleet area. ...
A man has been charged with multiple driving offences following a fatal collision in Orpington on 31 October 2019 in which a bus driver was killed. Dorjan Cera, 20 of no fixed address was charged on Friday, 20 May with: – One count of causing...
Kent Police is appealing for information to help find a man reported missing from Northfleet. Leon Junior, 21, was reported missing from the St Marks Avenue area of Northfleet at around 12.30pm on Friday 22 May. He is described as...
Policr are very concerned about 9 year old Caleb. #Missing from Sydenham since about 2230hrs. Wearing white karate suit with orange and black trainers. Possibly heading towards @MPSHackney by bus. If seen, call 999 and quote CAD 9634/22may20
Officers searching for missing 16-year-old Louise have today (Thursday 21 May) located a body in the Havant area. Formal identification has not yet taken place, but Louise’s family have been informed and are being supported by specialist officers...
A teenage boy who stabbed a man to death during a disturbance in Maidstone will spend a minimum of 20 years in prison. Vasilios Ofogeli used a machete to kill 21-year-old Andre Bent and injure three others when violence broke out in the Bank Street...
McDonalds, Gillingham,Kent on Wednesday 20th May 2020 McDonald’s has reopened 32 of its McDonalds, Gillingham,Kent Wednesday 20th May 2020 McDonald’s has reopened 32 of its drive-through restaurants as it gets back to business amid...
Motorcyclists in the Maidstone area are being reminded to ride responsibly and lawfully, or risk having their bikes seized. Maidstone officers together with Kent Police’s Rural Task Force are targeting nuisance motorbikes that cause a danger...
, to come to the aid of those who found themselves in difficulty in the sea or at the coast. Coastguard rescue teams from around the UK were called out 194 times to incidents including inflatables drifting offshore, crashed and broken down jetskis...
Sussex Police is searching for missing man Michael Harnetty from Eastbourne. Michael, 68, was last seen leaving his home address in the Jevington Gardens area around 11am on Wednesday (13 May). Michael travelled by train to London Victoria and was...
A shop vandal who smashed two television sets with a metal bar while other customers were browsing has been jailed. Tomass Averats targeted a Chatham Currys PC World store in April 2019 and went on to assault two Kent Police officers following his...
The Kent and Sussex air ambulance has landed in a field at Greenhill near Herne Bay around 2:30pm on Sunday afternoon. Flying medics from the life saving helicopter have been called to assist at an incident by the bend at the junction with...
Kent Police is appealing for witnesses following a fatal collision at Three Chimneys, near Biddenden. The incident happened on the A262 Sissinghurst Road shortly before 3.19pm on Saturday 16 May 2020 when a car and a motorbike collided. ...
Information is sought following a report a man was robbed of an electric bicycle in Sturry. Two people, believed to be teenage boys, are reported to have robbed the victim in an alleyway off Wildwood Road, heading towards Sturry Park, at around 5...
Reports of Six boats carrying migrants have succeeded in reaching the shores of the South Coast. Five of the boats have been brought into the port of Dover, One of the Boast landed at the Sussex town of Winchelsea We have also been informed that...
Police say they were called at 11:15am on Saturday morning to a report of people inside a house at Wyles Street in Gillingham. It was reported to Police that a man was in possession of a weapon. Armed officers attended. No weapons were...
HART team and Paramedics called serious medical incident at Beach Walk in Whitstable around midday today.
Five ambulance teams have been seen at the incident that happened on Saturday.
SECam have been approached for comment.
Detectives from the Kent and Essex Serious Crime Directorate have released a man from custody as enquiries into the death of a man in Dartford continue. Kent Police was called by South East Coast Ambulance Service at 8.18am on...
Collision investigators are appealing for information after a motorcyclist sustained serious injuries in Chatham. The rider was injured following a collision between his green and black Kawasaki motorbike and a white Toyota Rav4 in Maidstone...
A large cannabis factory has been discovered in a disused commercial building in Parry Place (“Eltham Welding Supplies”) this afternoon. Unconfirmed report of two arrests. Police say they will remain on scene until the cannabis and growing equipment...
A suspected drug dealer has been charged after a vehicle he was travelling in collided with several parked cars in Gillingham. Local patrols requested a man to stop his car at around 3pm on 14 May however he failed to do so and attempted to...
A man who spat at an NHS worker who was trying to help him has been jailed for five months. John Donoghue, 31, of Raphael Road, Gravesend, was taken to Tunbridge Wells Hospital on the evening of Monday 11 May 2020 and had been approached by a...
Jayda Fransen has issued a statement in respect of Picnic of Death in the Park being attributed them. Neither I, nor the British Freedom Movement have anything to do with the lockdown protests that are due to take place this weekend. I am highly...
What will restaurants be like once dine-in eating resumes? McDonald’s is giving us a look at the potential new normal for fast-food restaurants. The company has released a list of safety measures that will be implemented at locations operated...
Six fire engines and around 40 firefighters have been called to a house fire on Beaulieu Avenue in Sydenham. The first and second floor was completely destroyed, half of the ground floor and half of the roof was also damaged by the blaze in the...
A murder investigation has been launched after a body was found in Dartford in Kent. The man, in his 40s, is believed to have been stabbed within the ground of a property. Police were called by South East Coast Ambulance Service at 8.18am today...
Two drug dealers have been jailed following the seizure of cocaine and almost £65,000 during search warrants in Maidstone and Rochester. Ross Staines and Lewis Weaver are starting prison sentences totalling almost nine years after an investigation...
A prolific burglar who repeatedly targeted Tunbridge Wells businesses during the hours of darkness has been jailed. David Baker, of no fixed address, burgled four properties over three months last year. Between 18 and 21 August 2019...
Officers are appealing for information to help locate a missing man from Medway. Jonathan Plimmer, 45, from Gillingham was last seen on Saturday evening, 9 May 2020. It is possible that he may be in the Rainham or Twydall area. Mr Plimmer is...
Two people have been arrested in connection with a robbery in Herne Bay. Staff at a business in Kings Road are reported to have been threatened by a pair of offenders before a quantity of cash was stolen at around 4pm on Saturday 9 May 2020. ...
Sixty-six charges were secured by a specialist team of Kent Police detectives and uniformed officers in April 2020. Among those charged by the Chief Constable’s Crime Squad are a man suspected to have been involved in around 30 burglaries...
Three suspected county line drug dealers have been charged following their arrest in Halling. On Wednesday 6 May 2020, officers in plain clothes saw a man and a teenage girl they suspected to be involved in the supply of drugs, inside a car in...
Police are appealing for information to find Lisha Omokhai aged 14. Last seen in the Knatts Valley area 3pm yesterday. She’s 5ft 5ins, slim build with shoulder-length black hair. Last seen wearing black hooded top, black leggings and trainers...
An Interpol Red Notice has been issued for 42-year-old Anne Sacoolas, the wife of a US intelligence official charged with causing the death of teenage motorcyclist Harry Dunn by dangerous driving.
Police are appealing for information following a road traffic collision in Erith which led to four people being taken to hospital. The incident happened at about 8pm on Sunday, 10 May on Avenue Road near the junction with Victoria Road in Erith. A...
At around 10.30pm on Sunday 10 May 2020, Kent Police was called to a report a man had been assaulted in an alleyway that runs between Plains Avenue and Cumberland Avenue. The victim, who is in his 20s, suffered four small cuts to his abdomen...
A well-functioning justice system with the Rule of Law at its heart is one of the hallmarks of a healthy democracy like ours. Throughout the coronavirus outbreak court staff and the judiciary have worked incredibly hard to uphold the delivery of...
The M25 is closed ant-clockwise between Junction 31 for Purfleet/Lakeside and Junction 30 for Aveley following a multiple vehicle collision. There are long delays on the approach to the Dartford crossing as traffic held to implement the closure. ...
Boris Johnson The lockdown must stay for sometime: It is now almost two months since the people of this country began to put up with restrictions on their freedom – your freedom – of a kind that we have never seen before in peace or war. And you...
Train services are being seriously affected after a tree has been reported blocking the line at #FolkestoneWest Trains towards Dover are being delayed.
Staff from a Network Rail response team have been sent to organise the removal.
The M20 motorway was closed for a short time on Sunday after car was totally gulfed in flames near to Junction 8 to Junction 9, about 4 miles before Ashford. Officers from Kent Police closed the coastbound carriageway and traffic was diverted ...
As of 9am 10 May, there have been 1,821,280 tests, with 92,837 tests on 09 May. 1,334,770 people have been tested of which 219,183 tested positive. As of 5pm on 09 May, of those tested positive for coronavirus, across all settings, 31,855 have sadly...
Officers are appealing for the public’s help in trying to locate a teenager missing from Gravesend. 14-year-old Shayla-Mae Carter was last seen leaving her home in Gravesend at 8.30am on Friday 8 May. It is thought she may have travelled to...
