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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A teenager has sadly died after going in the sea in Herne Bay in Kent. Emergency crews and a rescue helicopter was scrambled to Western Esplanade just after 12pm on Saturday afternoon. Kent Fire and rescue, Coastguard search and rescue...
Emergency services have been scrambled to Herne Bay beach in Kent after a 18 year-old teenager was washed ashore unconscious on Saturday morning. Officers from Kent police Medics from South East Coast ambulance service and a Coast Guard rescue...
Four men have been charged after two cars car containing cannabis with an estimated street value of £31,500 was stopped on the M2 near Gillingham. The vehicles were pulled over on the morning of Friday 31 January 2020 following a suspected exchange...
A Yellow Met Office Weather Warning has bee updated for Rain The warning covers the following areas: London & South East England North East England North West England South West England Wales West Midlands Yorkshire & Humber Storm Dennis is...
A 17-year-old boy has been arrested following a robbery of a teenager in Dartford. Kent Police was called at around 7.30pm on Wednesday 12 February 2020 to reports a 16-year-old had been robbed in Princes Road. It is alleged the victim was...
A computer-generated image of a man has been issued by detectives following a report of a robbery in Chatham. On Wednesday 12 February 2020, two men are reported to have entered a commercial premises on the High Street where they threatened a number...
Hundreds of mourners have brought to Sevenoaks to a standstill today. Friday (February 14) as the town pays its respects to twins Billy and Joey Smith. The popular pair, who found fame on My Big Fat Gypsy Wedding, were found hanged in woodland three...
[ytp_video source=”O5aoEvBi8sk”] A major road in Chatham remains under police lockdown after a man who is understood to be armed with a fuel can threatened to do harm in a block of flats. Approx thirty police officers are at the scene on...
Two men have been charged with drug supply offences following plain-clothed patrols in Gravesend. On the morning of Tuesday 11 February 2020 Igors Pikalovs was stopped in the Prospect Grove area and, following further enquiries at North Kent Police...
A fly tipper has been branded “incredibly irresponsible” after dumping an unwanted caravan in at a pumping station gateway on Gore Green road in Higham and the neighbours don’t look too impressed either The caravan was left in the gateway sometime...
Kent and Met Police vehicles stopped a van on Mottingham Road in Mottingham around 9:30pm tonight allegedly linked to theft in the Medway area. The driver was arrested for alleged bilking petrol, not having a driving licence or insurance and fraud.
Kent Fire and Rescue Service is responding to a house fire in Luton Road, Faversham. Three fire engines are in attendance and crews wearing breathing apparatus have extinguished the fire, which had begun to spread to an adjacent property. One...
Kent Police is appealing for information to help locate a man missing from Ashford. Christopher Cooper was reported missing at 9am on Tuesday 11 February 2020 and police believe he could be in the Ashford or Hythe areas. The 41-year-old is described...
A fraudster who tricked the elderly and vulnerable out of their life’s savings has been convicted and jailed. Mohammed Rafiq, 34, of Grantholm Avenue, Motherwell, was part of an organised crime group who defrauded 33 victims of £630,000 between...
The M20 is closed eastbound/coast-bound between J9 and J10, due to an emergency carriageway repair. A diversion route using local routes has been installed using the A20 – A28 – A2070 to rejoin at J10 . Traffic travelling from further...
Named by the Met Office, the impacts from this low-pressure system are not expected to be as extreme as Storm Ciara but will bring widespread strong winds and heavy rain to parts of the UK. The system will develop in the North Atlantic before...
Detectives from the Kent and Essex Serious Crime Directorate are investigating the attempted murder of a man in Shorne, Gravesend. Kent Police was called to Shorne Ifield Road at around 9.20pm on Sunday 9 February 2020, where a man aged in his 40s...
Information is sought to help locate a teenage boy who is missing from Gillingham. Tommy Tracey was last seen in the town centre area of the town on Friday 31 January 2020. The 17-year-old is described as being white, 6ft tall and of...
A20 Sidcup By-Pass is closed at the junction of Frognal Corner due to a police incident. Traffic being diverted off the A20. A bystander at the scene said that there is a heavy police presence at the nearby Queen Mary’s Hospital which is on...
With a white Mercedes A class already stranded in the middle of the water with a possible write off with hazard light burning enter these pair of wide boys in with pretty lowered BMW that is now also full of water. The pair ended up...
The M20 is currently closed from J5 to J6 in both directions with delays of at least 15 minutes covering several miles of the motorway. The full road closure is due to a infrastructure repair and Highways England has resources deployed...
The Kent and Sussex Air ambulance has been called to a serious road traffic collision near Sevenoaks this afternoon. The lifesaving black and blue helicopter landed just after 4pm near to Coolings Garden centre on Rushmoor Hill in the village of...
Officers from Kent Police say they retrieved this huge ‘Rambo’ knife with a foot-long blade after a member of public spotted it hidden in bushes at Queens Gardens children’s play park in Dartford.
An Eighth person has been arrested following Ashford disturbance Officers were called to reports of a disturbance between two groups of people in County Square just after 1.30pm on Tuesday 4 February 2020. It was reported that some of the group had...
The A21 in Kent is closed northbound between the junctions with the A228 (Pembury) and A26 (Tonbridge) due to a traffic collision. A car has collided with the central reservation. Officers from Kent Roads Policing are on scene. Traffic is being...
Murder investigation launched after man who challenged a suspected car thief died after a month in a coma. Police were called just before 3am on Sunday, 29 December 2019 to reports of an injured man on Peareswood Road in Erith. Officers attended...
Two men are being investigated after a tractor and other equipment was stolen from a farm near Folkestone. A tractor, a ride-on mower and diesel were reportedly stolen during burglaries at the farm in Hawkinge between Friday 24 January and Friday 31...
Then Met Office have upgraded a yellow weather warning for parts of South East England to Amber from Sunday for very strong winds due to incoming Storm Ciara. A yellow warning still remains in place for the areas inside the Amber zone. Heavy rain is...
A Gillingham supermarket was forced to empty shelves of its cold products after the chillers broke down. Aldi on the Gillingham Business Park was forced to remove all the items from a large section of the store – and has issued apologies to...
A Gravesend drug dealer has been jailed for four and a half years after his vehicle collided with three cars and seriously injured a teenager. Paul Howes, 48, of Lower Higham Road, failed to stop after the incident and was later found to be in...
A teenager is to appear in court in connection with a disturbance in Ashford town centre. The 17-year-old boy from Ashford was charged on Thursday 6 February 2020 with one count of affray. He was originally arrested with six other people as part of...
Detectives from the Kent and Essex Serious Crime Directorate investigating the death of a man in Northfleet, have charged a 28-year-old man with murder. Kent Police was called to an address in Hamerton Road at 2.46am on Tuesday 4 February 2020...
he M2 is currently closed from J3 to J2 with delays of at least 30 minutes covering several miles of the west/London bound carriageway. This closure is due to a road traffic collision which has resulted in a vehicle becoming overturned across the...
A suspected drink driver who rolled his car on the M20 motorway at Lenham has been released pending further investigation. Officers from Kent Roads policing where called fooling the collision nth at closed the road for sometime. A police...
A 19-year-old man has become the seventh person arrested by Kent Police officers investigating a disturbance in Ashford town centre. Officers were called to a report of a disturbance between two groups of people in County Square just after 1.30pm on...
Police have closed Thanet Way closed London bound between the St Nicholas at Wade Roundabout and Margate Road junction due to a jackknifed lorry and large fuel spill about one mile before Broomfield.
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A low-pressure system that will impact the UK this weekend has been named as Storm Ciara by the Met Office. The system currently developing in the North Atlantic will bring strong winds and heavy rain across the whole of the UK through the end of...
Two men have been charged following the seizure of more than £60,000 in cash and quantities of Class A drugs in Medway and Maidstone. On Monday 3 February 2020 Kent Police’s Operation Raptor team executed simultaneous search warrants at addresses in...
A CCTV image of a man has been issued by officers who would like to speak to him in connection with an investigation into a burglary in Canterbury. [liveblog] Between 10pm on Friday 31 January and 1am on Saturday 1 February 2020 it was reported...
EE customers have received texts saying there is a problem with their bill, but the network provider says these texts are not genuine. Be aware of the EE text scam. EE have confirmed they are not genuine links. Customers received the texts and...
Six arrests have been made and three knives recovered by Kent Police officers investigating a disturbance in Ashford town centre. Officers were called to a report of a disturbance between two groups of people in County Square just after 1.30pm on...
Kent Fire and Rescue Service was called to a section of the River Medway near New Hythe Lane in Larkfield, to reports of a man and a dog in the water. The pug who was walking off the lead, jumped off of the path into the water around 12 ft below...
Kent Fire and Rescue Service are currently at the scene of a fire at a Sure Start children’s centre on Princess Margaret Avenue, Ramsgate. On arrivals crews were faced with a large quantity of smoke and flames at the rear of the building...
Kent Fire and Rescue Service was called to reports of two vans alight at a property on Roberts Road, Gillingham on Tuesday evening. Two fire engines attended and crews extinguished the flames using two hose reel jets. One person was given first aid...
Emergency services were called to a two-car crash on Lidsing Road at the junction with Yelsted Lane at Lidsing near Lordswood around 3:36pm yesterday afternoon. Both drivers were described as being “walking wounded” following the collision. The...
A driver has lost control of their vehicle and left the carriage way closing on lane of the busy M25 motorway this afternoon. The Ford fiesta can been seen in the tree line just off the hard shoulder. Emergency services have been scrambled to the...
Kent Fire and Rescue Service was called to house in Seasalter, Whitstable, after a fire broke out in the kitchen. Two fire engines attended the home in Beaconsfields and crews wearing breathing apparatus extinguished the flames using a hose reel jet...
Witnesses are being sought following the attempted theft of a cash machine from a supermarket in Strood High Street. Kent Police was called to reports of a break-in at Asda at around 12.30am on Monday 3 February 2020. Officers attended the scene...
