This afternoon, a sizable fire has started in Gravesend (June 26). A serious incident in Jubilee Crescent has prompted nine fire engines to respond...
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Two men charged over aggravated burglary in Canterbury Two men have appeared in court after the home of an elderly man was broken into in Canterbury. Kent Police was called on the morning of Wednesday 26 February 2020 following a report that armed...
Fourteen charges have been made against a man accused of burgling a home in Gravesend. Craig Graham is reported to have taken a car and a small quantity of cash from a home in Windsor Drive on the night of 3 and 4 March 2020. During the same period...
Information is being sought following the theft of two milk churns in Ashford. The 10-gallon aluminium milk churns were reported stolen from the front of a property in Hothfield, between 10pm on 22 February 2020 and 10am the following day. The...
The M20 coastbound has re-opened following a serious collision involving four vehicles. The incident was reported to Kent Police at 9.29pm on Tuesday 10 March 2020 and involved two lorries, a black Citroen Cactus and a Mercedes sprinter van. It took...
As of 9am on 11 March 2020, 27,476 people have been tested in the UK, of which 27,020 were confirmed negative and 456 were confirmed as positive.
Six patients who tested positive for COVID-19 have died.
Two men are due to appear in court charged with firearms offences relating to a fatal shooting in Folkestone. An investigation was launched by detectives from the Kent and Essex Serious Crime Directorate after Joe Daniels was found unresponsive...
A man has appeared in court charged with robbing a man and racially abusing a shop assistant in Ashford. He is understood to have pulled into an alleyway near Ashford High Street at around 1am on Saturday 7 March 2020 and had belongings, including...
Kent Police was called to a commercial premises in High Street, Tonbridge at 9.18am on Wednesday, 11 March 2020 following a report of a serious assault. A woman sustained serious injuries and was taken to a local hospital for treatment. Her...
A person has been attacked in broad daylight assault on Wednesday.
The assault took place on Tonbridge High Street near Poundland.
Kent Police have been approached for comment.
More to follow
A lorry has struck a railway bridge on Wingleton Lane, Ringwould near Walmer. No trains running until checks have been made. Southeastern have said: Due to a road vehicle striking this bridge at #Walmer services in the area are being held while a...
Five arrests have been made by officers from the Kent and Essex Serious Crime Directorate following a shooting near Greenhithe. The victim, a 31-year-old man from Essex, sustained arm injuries following an incident in the Cooper Close area of Stone...
A bomb disposal team was called to Coleridge Road in Dartford this morning.
The team of specialist were called after a wartime shell was discovered around 9:30am on Tuesday.
Police say the device has been disposed of safely.
A Ramsgate man who punched a member of the public who tried to calm an argument in a shop near Broadstairs has been jailed. Benjamin Haywood, of Wickham Avenue, Ramsgate, assaulted the man in George Hill Road, Kingsgate on the...
As of 9am on 10 March 2020, 26,261 people have been tested in the UK, of which 25,888 were confirmed negative and 373 were confirmed as positive. Six patients who tested positive for COVID-19 have died.
Cases identified in England
Two men who exchanged a firearm in a parked car in south London in front of covert officers have been jailed. Dean Philpott, 34 of Hemsted Road, Erith, and Paul Saunders, 63 , of Ramillies Road, Sidcup, were each sentenced to five years’...
A Dover man is to appear in court next month charged with dangerous driving. On Saturday 7 March 2020 a car travelling along New Dover Road, Canterbury, drove away after officers signalled for it to stop. Following a pursuit via...
A suspected burglar has been charged with eight offences in the Tunbridge Wells and Cranbrook areas. On 2 January 2020, a car was reported stolen from Forest Road, Tunbridge Wells after the keys were taken from inside the owner’s house. The car was...
A Chatham thief who burgled two businesses, a home and then stole a car has been sentenced to four years and 10 months’ imprisonment. Shane Rule, of Boundary Road, targeted locations in Chatham in January 2020 and also drove the stolen vehicle...
Officers from Kent Police are no longer appealing for information to locate Yugal Limbu, who was reported missing from the Ashford area. Sadly at around 4.30pm on Monday 9 March 2020, officers located the body of a man in the River Stour near Bowens...
A woman has sadly died in a house blaze overnight with in Dover. It follows after fire crews from Kent fire and rescue were called just after 10pm Monday to Clarendon Street in Dover. A specialist Urban Search and Rescue Team is in attendance to...
Firefighters are working in very challenging weather conditions tackling a large house fire in #Dover. The blaze has been contained and prevented from spreading to a neighbouring property Kent Fire and Rescue Service remain at the scene of a house...
An appeal for information has been issued after a motorist was reportedly assaulted by another driver near Staplehurst. At around 3pm on Sunday 8 March 2020, a man driving a white van along Cradducks Lane stopped at a narrow section when he met a...
Two men arrested by officers investigating Greenhithe shooting Two men have been arrested on suspicion of attempted murder after a man was shot in Greenhithe. The victim, a man in his 30s, sustained an arm injury following an incident in the Cooper...
A Ramsgate robber who threatened four teenage boys with a kitchen knife has been jailed for five-and-a-half years. Jake Milner-Homewood, 25, produced the blade after asking his victims for drugs in the High Street on the evening of Monday 18...
Detectives investigating an attempted murder in Cranbrook are appealing for information. The incident happened shortly before 1.25pm on Monday, 2 March 2020, in Rye Road, Sandhurst. A man in his 70s suffered life-threatening injuries after...
As of 9am on 8 March 2020, 23,513 people have been tested in the UK, of which 23,240 were confirmed negative and 273 were confirmed as positive. Two patients who tested positive for COVID-19 have died. Cases identified in England NHS region...
A head on collision in Cranbrook has seen the driver of one vehicle airlifted to hospital. It follows a late night crash on Rocks Hill (A229) around 8:30pm on Sunday evening. The Kent Air ambulance attended and landed on the Rugby field and took...
As of 9:00am on 8 March 2020, 244 people have been confirmed as positive for COVID-19. Two patients who tested positive have died. Public Health England (PHE) publish data by upper tier local authority daily. Confirmed cases of COVID-19 in England...
Kent Fire and Rescue Service was called to a single car crash on Biddenden Road between Headcorn and Tenterden. On arrival crews found a women trapped by her injuries in her car that had ended up on its side. Crews stabilised the vehicle and were...
Police attended this crash involving a drink driver who had collided with a lorry M2 motorway. The serious collision happened on the coastbound carriage way approaching Brenley Corner. Just after 7am in Friday morning. Though the car...
War medal seized following arrest of man on suspicion of burglary Detectives are appealing for information to locate the owner of a war medal that may have been stolen from the east Kent area. The medal was amongst memorabilia seized...
Police say three teenagers have been charged with robbery and remanded after a boy of 13 was allegedly assaulted and had his phone stolen outside McDonald’s on 8th Feb. Two 16-year-olds and a 15-year-old will appear at South East London Magistrates...
Detectives investigating a robbery in Orpington in which a puppy was stolen have charged a man. Francis Zeta, of High Street, Plaistow E13, was arrested on suspicion of robbery on Thursday, 5 March. He has this evening been charged and remanded, and...
A teenager has died after being hit by a train at Sturry Station, near Canterbury in Kent this evening. The teen was declared dead at the scene by emergency crews. Police have been inspecting the 5.39pm Charing Cross train service that is...
Four men have been arrested as part of a National Crime Agency investigation into a crime group suspected of transporting migrants from the continent into the UK in the back of lorries. The arrests followed the discovery of 10 migrants in a lorry...
Information is being sought following a serious collision near Dover. Shortly after 11.20am on Wednesday 4 March 2020, a blue Kia Sportage car travelling in the Londonbound direction and a white Mini One car travelling towards Dover were involved in...
Two people have been removed from a car and arrested by police and National Crime Agency officers at Market Square shortly after 11am this morning. A total of seven undercover vehicles are said to have attended the scene.
A motorist whose vehicle collided with a pedestrian near Cranbrook has been charged with attempted murder. Kent Police was called at 1.25pm on Monday 2 March 2020 to reports a Volkswagen Transporter had collided with a 70-year-old man in Rye Road...
A Christmas present thief who left his hat at the scene of his crime has been sentenced to four years and 10 months’ imprisonment. Nicholas Rooney, 54, of Bouverie Road West, Folkestone, claimed he was drunk when he clambered through the bathroom...
As part of an investigation into a suspected arson in Folkestone, officers would like to identify the wearer of an unusual hooded top as they may be able to assist in enquiries. Kent Police was called at around 2.20am on Tuesday 25 February 2020 to...
Information is being sought by officers investigating an attempted robbery and assault in Gravesend town centre. Kent Police received a report two teenagers approached a man in Lord Street car park just after 11pm on 8 February and attempted to...
An appeal has been launched for a High Risk Missing person. Police are keen to locate 12 year old girl Ebube Okoei who was last seen getting on a bus in Bexleyheath Broadway towards Blackfen at 4.30pm on Tuesday. She was wearing school uniform...
Police are appealing for the public’s help after a puppy was stolen in a knifepoint robbery in Orpington. The puppy, a British bulldog who is named Spot, was stolen by two men in Lullingstone Crescent. At about 08:50am on Tuesday, 3 March, Spot was...
Information is being sought by detectives after two men armed with weapons burgled a property in Paddock Wood. Cash and jewellery were reportedly stolen during the incident which happened in Ashcroft Road, during the evening of Friday 28 February...
Bosses at a Kent hospital have called an urgent meeting this afternoon after a further a staff member revealed that she has been exposed to a carrier of the Corona Virus over the weekend. The hospital worker revealed that person she had been in...
A burglar who admitted stealing cigarettes from supermarkets in east Kent has been jailed. Three different Co-op stores in Ash, Westgate and Deal, were targeted by Daniel D’Age between April and August 2019. At each store he used tools to smash his...
There are reports that a member of staff in Maidstone tested positive for coronavirus last night. According to social media reports, the first case of corona virus has reportedly been confirmed in Kent. A member of staff who works at one of the...
A youth has been charged following robberies at Currys PC World stores in London. The 16-year-old boy from Greenwich was charged on Saturday, 29 February, with two counts of robbery and two counts of possession of an offensive weapon. The charges...
