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 number of people have been detained and one taken to hospital follow an armed raid by Kent Police in the early hours of Sunday morning. Armed officers from Kent Police descend on the sleepy doomsday village of Otham on the outskirts of...
Armed officers from Kent Police descend on the sleepy doomsday village of Otham on the outskirts of Maidstone in Kent in the early hours of Sunday morning. Officers in full body armour with fully loaded Heckler & Koch G36 assault...
As of 9am 2 May, there have been 1,129,907 tests, with 105,937 tests on 1 May. 825,946 people have been tested of which 182,260 tested positive. As of 5pm on 1 May, of those tested positive for coronavirus, across all settings, 28,131 have sadly...
An arrest has been made following a report four cars were set alight in Ramsgate during the early hours of Saturday 2 May 2020. The cars, which were parked in in Claremont Gardens and Grange Road, caught fire at around 5.20am and an 18-year-old man...
Armed police were called to a disturbance in Jefferson Road on the Island of Sheppey on Friday evening. A woman left a property in the street before police arrived, and she is said to be safe and well, but a man is still inside. The man and...
Kent Fire and Rescue Service was called to reports of a house fire on Speldhurst Hill in Tunbridge Wells. Six fire engines were sent to the scene and firefighters arrived to smoke issuing from the roof of the building. Crews wearing breathing...
A firearm and suspected class A drugs have been seized during a warrant in Cliftonville. Officers from the Kent and Essex Serious Crime Directorate attended a flat in Surrey Road at around 3am on Friday 1 May 2020. A sawn-off shotgun, a...
As of 9am 1 May, there have been 1,023,824 tests, with 122,347 tests on 30 April. 762,279 people have been tested of which 177,454 tested positive. As of 5pm on 30 April, of those tested positive for coronavirus, across all settings, 27,510 have...
The government has changed the way it is counting the number of covid-19 tests carried out in a bid to hit its target of 100,000 tests per day by the end of April, we can reveal. Previously, a test would be counted once the sample had been processed...
Conspirators who plotted to shoot a man have been jailed for a combined total of more than 15 years. Barry Chambers and Andrew Williams participated in an assault that led to a man in his 20s being shot in a Whitstable field following a...
A suspected drug dealer, based in Ashford, has been remanded in custody. The offences relate to an arrest made by officers from the Ashford Community Policing Team on Friday 24 April 2020, who were on patrol in the Victoria Park area of the town at...
Kent Police officers attended an address on the A259 near New Romney on the morning of Thursday 30 April 2020. Three people were arrested and two cars, suspected of being stolen, have been seized. Steven Taylor, 33, of Manton Road, Plumstead, south...
A Herne Bay resident responsible for the repeated sexual abuse of a child has been jailed. Neil Williams was sentenced to four years and six months’ imprisonment after carrying out a series of offences between 2014 and 2017. Allegations of abuse...
A 29-year-old man will appear in court to be sentenced for racially-aggravated offences and spitting at a police officer during his arrest in Margate. Thomas Mason started shouting racist abuse at a member of staff, after he was challenged for...
Captain Tom Moore, who has famously raised £30million for the NHS by walking over 100 laps of his garden, has been named a Point of Light winner by Prime Minister Boris Johnson. The Prime Minister wrote to the inspirational veteran to give him the...
Police on patrol in Margate stopped two people who were seen to be acting suspiciously near vehicles in Orchard Road during the early hours of Monday 27 April 2020. A number of items believed to be stolen, including a car radio, keys, and satnavs...
An appeal has been issued by officers following three reported sexual assaults on women in the Swanley area. The incidents have involved a suspect on a dark bicycle who is alleged to have indecently touched the victims as he has ridden past. The...
Friends and colleagues lined the road to say a sad farewell to a popular paramedic who has died aged just 27 after a battle with cancer this afternoon in Sittingbourne. Just before 3pm on Thursday a black hearse displaying Rhod’s crew...
A woman has woman having fallen from the first-floor car park at Asda on Middleburg Square around 10am this morning. The Kent and Sussex Air ambulance landed at Radnor Park and HEMS personnel were rushed to the scene. A spokesman for Kent Police...
Total number of deaths for each nation 29-04-20 NHS England England (391) new deaths (20,131) total – in hospital Public Health Wales Wales (22) new deaths (908) total – all settings N Ireland (HSCNI) N Ireland (9) new deaths (338) total...
Four charges have been made against a man accused of stealing, or attempting to steal, from parked cars in Ebbsfleet. Between 14 and 26 April 2020 Kent Police received several reports of a suspicious man attempting to enter vehicles in the Castle...
Kent Police have closed the M2 motorway between junction six at Faversham and junction five for Sittingbourne in after a vehicle has collided with the central barrier. The engine from the Vauxhall astra has landed on carriageway the between...
A prolific sex offender has been sentenced to 14 years’ imprisonment after admitting a number of offences involving five children. Michael Funnell was convicted at Maidstone Crown Court of rape, as well as nine counts of sexually assaulting a...
This lorry driver made the ultimate sacrifice to keep this country moving. Tragically, Ryan Cartwright died from Covid-19, previously having posted a message many drivers can relate to ‘I can’t stay home, I’m a trucker.’...
The life saving Kent and Sussex air ambulance has called into action after a pensioner had a serious fall in Bearsted on the outskirts of Maidstone in Kent on Wednesday evening. The skillful pilot of the lifesaving helicopter landed in the...
A Folkestone man has been charged with arson after a police car was set on fire while officers attended an emergency call. Officers were attending a medical incident in Canterbury Road, Folkestone shortly before 2am on Saturday 21 March 2020...
A suspected burglar is to appear in court in connection with the theft of cigarettes from a Ramsgate post office. Kent Police was called after a burglary took place in the High Street premises during the early hours of Sunday 19 April 2020. A...
A man identified by forensics has been arrested for allegedly spitting at a bus driver. At around 1.10am on Wednesday, 25 March, a man boarded a bus on Broadway in Bexleyheath. The 18-year-old man attempted to pay his fare with an unusable bank...
Whirlpool has identified a further 21 models to be added to its list of recalled washing machines. The company estimates this will affect up to 55,000 machines in addition to more than 500,000 originally identified. In light of Coronavirus...
Kent Police is appealing for information following the reported theft of a jet ski from Manston, near Ramsgate. The machine was stolen from a property in Manston Court Road at around 2.10pm on Sunday 26 April 2020. A witness reported...
New UK deaths announced April 29th 2020 Total number of deaths for each nation (28/04/2020) NHS England England (445) new deaths (19,740) total Public Health Wales Wales (73) new deaths (886) total N Ireland (HSCNI) N Ireland (20) new...
Seven charges have been made against a woman after Kent Police was called to a shoplifting incident in Dartford. On the afternoon of Sunday 26 April 2020 the suspect is reported to have assaulted a shop worker after attempting to leave a...
Marlon Kirlew, 34, of Arcus Road, Bromley, was sentenced to seven years and six months’ imprisonment at Woolwich Crown Court on Monday, 27 April. Kirlew pleaded guilty to possession of a firearm and possession of a firearm when prohibited for life...
Kent Fire and Rescue Service was called to rescue five ducklings who had got themselves into a bit of a flap. Crews arrived in one fire engine and used ladders to reach the baby ducks, who were stuck inside a chimney at a property in Hawthorn Park...
A former Secure Training Centre will receive its first adult prisoners today as part of further work to temporarily expand the prison estate to protect the public and NHS during the Coronavirus pandemic. This follows the installation of the first of...
Carrie Symonds has announced the birth of a healthy baby boy at a London hospital earlier this morning. Both mother and baby are doing very well, their spokesman said. A spokesman for Boris Johnson and Carrie Symonds said: “The Prime...
COVID-19 treatments could be fast-tracked through new national clinical trial initiative This will accelerate the development of new drugs for patients hospitalised with COVID-19, reducing the time taken to set up clinical studies for new therapies...
Over 21 million pieces of protective equipment have been shipped to the UK from China The UK Government has flown over 21 million pieces of PPE and more than 1,000 ventilators to the NHS and Social Care Services from China over the last three...
His Royal Highness The Prince of Wales will read an extract from King George VI’s diary from 8 May 1945 Members of The Royal Family, the Prime Minister and the Culture Secretary will take part in video calls with Second World War veterans ...
Kent Fire and Rescue Service was called to a fire involving a tumble dryer in the ground floor utility room of a home in Summerhouse Drive, Bexley near Dartford. Crews arrived to find the tumble dryer issuing smoke. Wearing breathing apparatus crews...
Members of the public are being asked to help locate a girl reported missing from Gillingham. Tilly Bayntun, 13, was reported missing from the town on Friday 24 April 2020. Kent Police officers are carrying out enquiries to locate her and...
A pilot has sparked complaints after spelling out #NHS during a flight from Blackbushe Airport in #Hampshire.
The journey went over several towns in an apparent tribute to the health service.
Royal Mail stops Saturday delivery across the UK due to coronavirus crisis They will no longer deliver letters on a Saturday in a bid to protect Britons during the coronavirus (COVID-19) crisis. The new service will come into effect this weekend...
A disqualified driver who drove at three times the speed limit through a town centre has been jailed for over a year. Jordan McGrath-Coulstock led Kent Police officers on a high-speed pursuit across rural, residential and town centre roads in East...
NHS England England (546) new deaths (19,295) total Public Health Wales Wales (17) new deaths (813) total N Ireland (HSCNI) N Ireland (10) new deaths (309) total Scotland (HPS) Scotland (13) new deaths (1,262) total Today’s total number of...
An abusive man who poisoned a woman by administering prescription medicine into her jar of coffee sweetener has been sentenced to prison. Christopher Connolly, 30, of Chelmar Road, Chatham was sentenced to four years in jail for inflicting...
Two people have been remanded in custody following a report a home in Twydall was burgled while the victim’s slept. The offence is reported to have taken place during the early hours of Thursday 23 April 2020 and led to two cars being...
A Maidstone man who pulled clumps of hair from the head of a woman during a violent domestic assault has been jailed. Gary Nash left his victim suffering a number of injuries after he also beat her repeatedly with a mobile phone and threw a ceramic...
