This afternoon, a sizable fire has started in Gravesend (June 26). A serious incident in Jubilee Crescent has prompted nine fire engines to respond...
Several properties are being affected by a fire that is currently being attended to by Kent Fire and Rescue Service on Jubilee Crescent in Gravesend
Blaze rips through multiple properties in Gravesend
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Crockenhill Primary School has been evacuated after a suspected unexploded wartime bomb was found just after 1pm today. Police say that all school children have been safely evacuated and a bomb disposal team are on their way. A spokesman for...
A computer-generated image has been issued after a girl was reportedly followed by a man in Dover. At around 3.10pm on 9 December 2019, a girl was walking along Melbourne Avenue in Dover when she reported being followed by a man in a dark or grey...
An air ambulance has been called to Tunbridge Wells following a serious incident in the town The helicopter landed on the Lower Cricket Ground and was met by a land ambulance. Emergency crews where called and a number of road closures...
Kent Fire and Rescue Service was called to a home in Canterbury Road, Margate, after a wheelie bin caught alight and spread to a house. Luckily, the family dog raised the alarm when smoke started to seep into the property and alerted its owners, who...
A serious crash involving two cars happened on the A228 Main Road at Chattenden near Hoo, by the petrol station, at 3:50am this morning. Two men were injured and taken to a London hospital. Witnesses are being asked to call Police on 101
. At around 1am on Saturday 25 January 2020, Kent Police was called to reports a man had been approached by a group of people and assaulted. The victim, who is in his 20s, was taken to hospital with a head injury. He remains in...
Emergency services have called to a body found at the bottom of a cliff near South Foreland Lighthouse. Coastguard search and team are currently on scene along with Police after a member of the public called just after 12.20pm on Saturday afternoon...
Officers investigating an assault in Rochester High Street have made an arrest. At around 1am on Saturday 25 January 2020, Kent Police was called to reports a man had been approached by a group of people and assaulted. The victim, who is in his 20s...
A dirt bike with a distinctive Woody Woodpecker design was among three reported stolen from a property in Whitstable. Kent Police is appealing for information to trace the vehicles and identify those responsible for the thefts, which happened...
The British Divers Marine Life Rescue received a call to a whale in trouble approximately 100m off the coast of Whitstable, on the North Kent coast. By 12.45pm, Local volunteer were on scene however the whale had moved away in the direction of the...
Kent Police is appealing for information to help locate a teenage boy reported missing from Medway. Hayden Yeomans was last seen in Gillingham on Monday 27 January 2020 at around 11.40pm. Officers believe he could be in the Ramsgate area and may...
The funeral for tragic firefighter Anthony Knott who disappeared while on a work Christmas night out has been held this morning at St Giles Church in Orpington. Over 450 friends family and work pals all packed the church in the village of...
Kent Police is appealing for witnesses after a girl was reportedly pushed by a woman in Herne Bay. The incident is reported to have taken place on King’s Road near Dering Road at around 3.15pm on Monday 6 January 2020. Two...
CCTV images of two men have been issued by officers who would like to identify them as they may be able to assist with an investigation into the theft of cigarettes from a #Folkestone shop. Between 12.30am and 1pm on Saturday 18 January 2020, a...
A Gravesend woman has been charged with 13 offences including purse thefts across north Kent. Kent Police received reports of burglaries and thefts from stores in Gravesend, Dartford and Swanscombe between November 2019 and January 2020. It is...
Kent Police is appealing for information following a report of inappropriate behaviour by a man in Margate. The incident happened outside a residential property in the High Street, shortly before 11am on Thursday 23 January 2020. A girl in her late...
Kent Fire and Rescue Service responded to a crash involving two vehicles on the M20 coast-bound between junction 5 (Aylesford/A20) and junction 6 (Maidstone/A229). Two fire engines attended and crews used hydraulic rescue equipment to free one...
Two men arrested at the scene of a break-in in Gillingham have been charged with burglary. It is reported that at around 6.45pm on Monday 20 January 2020 a door was forced to a property in Davenport Avenue, where items including a laptop, speakers...
Police are investigating anti-Semitic and white supremacist graffiti that has appeared at Barclays Bank, the Blackheath Standard and apparently other local shops overnight. Two businesses in South East London have been sprayed with antisemitic...
A serious Road traffic collision on the High Street in Eynsford around 7:20pm tonight has seen a road closures put in place. A man has been hit by a vehicle. Road closed between are Bower Lane and Priory Lane, and likely to remain so for several...
Witnesses are being urged to come forward after a man was assaulted by a group of yobs in Ramsgate. The incident happened in Queen Street, near the junction with King Street and High Street, at around 8.20pm on Friday 25 January 2020. It was...
Kent Police is appealing for information into the whereabouts of a 12-year-old boy who has been reported missing. Oliver Warry-Ugola travelled to London from his home in Dartford on Thursday 23 January 2020 and has not returned since. He is...
Police have closed a major road linking to the M20 Motorway The link road between the A2070 Bad Munstereifel Road to M20 Junction 10 has been closed following an earlier vehicle fire to allow recovery and carriageway clear up to take place. Highways...
Kent Fire and Rescue Service was called to a fire in a rear bedroom of a bungalow in Snodhurst Avenue, Chatham. Everyone in the property safely evacuated and there were no reported injuries. The Red Cross Volunteers were in attendance and offered...
Kent Police is appealing for witnesses after a cash machine was stolen from a petrol station in Staplehurst. A JCB is reported to have been used to rip the ATM from the wall of the Esso garage at Iden Park, Cranbrook Road, shortly after 2...
A six month investigation into a drug dealing network in Medway has led to four years and two months’ imprisonment for a Belvedere man. Joseph O’Leary, of Morvale Close, pleaded guilty to two charges of being concerned in the supply of class A drugs...
All traffic is being temporarily held by police on the #M20 London bound at Junction 2 #A20 London Road (Wrotham Brands Hatch Circuit) due to a Police led incident officers have revealed. Two lanes of queueing traffic can been seen just before the...
A burglar who stole thousands of pounds’ worth of power tools from a building site in Dover has been jailed. On 14 October 2019, it was discovered a burglary had taken place at a building being renovated in Flying Horse Lane. Thousands of pounds’...
Kent Police is appealing for witnesses after a man suffered serious injuries in a collision near Whitstable. A red Ford Fiesta was travelling on the coastbound A299 when it left the road near the Chestfield Tunnel at around 6.50am on Friday 24...
A pensioner has died in hospital after being injured in a collision near Strood. Officers are renewing an appeal for information into the incident on Friday 10 January 2020, which happened on the A228 Sundridge Hill, towards Cuxton. The collision...
A Sheerness man who threatened a woman and her family with violence has been sentenced to two and a half years’ imprisonment. Lewis Jacobs, of Rosemary Avenue, Minster-on-Sea, made almost 350 phone calls to the victim between 7 and 28 March...
Two arrests have been made following an assault in Canterbury. Kent Police was called at 4.10pm on Wednesday 22 January 2020 to a report of a disturbance involving a group of men in Canterbury Lane. Two men sustained injuries...
A break-in took place at the town’s old West Station site, between 6pm on Tuesday 31 December 2019 and 8.45am the following day. Acts of vandalism were reported to police which included fire damage to two heritage train carriages, believed to have...
Police have been called to a fight in the City of Canterbury this afternoon were a man has been stabbed and two others injured. Witnesses say a fight broken out involving a large group of delivery drivers near to the taxi rank on Canterbury Lane...
Investigators are appealing for witnesses after a police car was involved in a collision in Chatham. The incident happened at 11.52am on Tuesday 21 January 2020, on Maidstone Road, at the junction with Southill Road. It involved a Kent Police...
A suspected burglar arrested after a break-in at a Tonbridge pharmacy has been charged. Quantities of drugs were reported stolen after a window was smashed at a store in York Parade. The burglary took place at around 11.30pm on Monday 20 January...
The funeral of the late Anthony Knott is to be held in Farnborough near Bromley the family have revealed later this month. The popular firefighter went missing on a night out and a major search spanning a large part of Lewes was carried out to look...
The RNLI station was paged by HM Coastguard at 2pm on Monday 22nd January 2020 following reports that the dolphins were stranded about 100 yards from the shore at Mucking Flats, to the west of London Gateway Port. The four-man crew of the hovercraft...
Kent Fire and Rescue Service was called to a flat fire in Military Road, Hythe. Two fire engines attended and crews wearing breathing apparatus used a hose reel jet to extinguish the blaze, which is believed to have started accidentally in a...
A police car on the way to an emergency call collided with another vehicle on Maidstone Road at the junction with Southill Road around midday on Tuesday.
Two officers and the occupant of a black Audi received minor injuries.
Police have charged an man with assault with intent to commit a sexual offence in Canterbury . Police were called to the Kingsmead Road area at 6.30am on 17 December 2019 after a woman was reportedly punched and kicked. She did not suffer serious...
Officers from British transport Police have seized this BB gun after staff discovered the item had been left on a Southeastern train at #Faversham on Monday evening .
After yesterday’s disruption where emergency services dealt with an incident at #Chatham, some trains were out of position overnight. As a result, the 7am service from Sheerness to Victoria is cancelled. Some mainline services will also run...
Reports of a disturbance involving two or more people in Milton Road near Bentley Street around 8pm in Monday evening Unconfirmed report that one man was hit on the head with a brick or baseball bat. In statement from Kent police they have...
Emergency services have been called to are deal with an incident at #Chatham. Train Services have been stopped and there are currently no trains running between Rochester and Gillingham. A person was reported by a driver to be on the track, It is...
Benjamin Bowler, 40, of Richmond Road, Gillingham has appeared in court after being charged with the murder of a 39-year-old woman. Kent Police was called to a property in Richmond Road, Gillingham at 4.51pm on Thursday 16 January 2020. South East...
Detectives investigating the death of a woman in Gillingham have charged a man with murder. Kent Police was called at 4.51pm on Thursday 16 January 2020 to a property in Richmond Road, Gillingham. The South East Coast Ambulance Service also...
Emergency services have been called to an incident on the railway between Strood and Gravesend. Trains cannot currently run between the stations. A person hit by a train has sadly died, as a result of this all lines are currently blocked. Trains...