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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Due to the shape and weight of the base, it would not have fallen over by itself. This monument has stood in the churchyard for 70 years and was in memory of a 3 year old little girl. The damaged Angel has been moved for safe keeping whilst we...
The victim was initially approached by a large group of people in Tonbridge Road, at around 3.30pm on Monday 11 October 2021. One of them started asking him questions, including about a bag he was carrying and how much it had cost him. The victim...
Taye Francis, 40 , of no fixed address, was found guilty at the Old Bailey on Wednesday, 10 November after plunging a knife into the neck of 23-year-old Khloemae Loy, with whom he had been in a relationship. Police were called to the Holiday Inn on...
The incident occurred on the A10 Melbourn Road, near the junction with Coombelands, at around 10.40am yesterday (Tuesday 9 November). Two cyclists and a lorry were involved. Officers attended, alongside colleagues from the ambulance and fire...
Information is sought following an aggravated burglary at a shop in Tenterden. Shortly before 5.45pm on Tuesday 9 November 2021, a dark-coloured Mercedes 4×4 reversed into the front of the business in the town’s High Street. ...
Jamie Speller raped the woman, who was known to him, inside her home on 17 November 2018. On 14 December he assaulted her by pushing her over two times as she walked home, causing her to fall and hit her head. The victim reported the...
Jamie Speller raped the woman, who was known to him, inside her home on 17 November 2018. On 14 December he assaulted her by pushing her over two times as she walked home, causing her to fall and hit her head. The victim reported the...
The officers will begin working across the county after Thursday 18 November 2021 and will take on the status of fully warranted police officers. They will begin by working alongside police constables and special tutors where they can put their...
Having seen the rear light not working, officers from Folkestone Community Policing Team pulled over the van in Capel-Le Ferne during the afternoon of Sunday 7 November 2021. Within the van, officers found bin bags containing cannabis bud. ...
Influencers Megan and Whitney Bacon-Evans are launching a judicial review against their NHS Clinical Commissioning Group for its “discriminatory” fertility policy. According to the couple, they must go through 12 rounds of private...
A suspected burglar has been arrested after police in Folkestone recovered stolen credit cards from a drain. At around 1.45pm on Saturday 6 November 2021, Kent Police received a report that a man had been seen a short time earlier, dropping bank...
Police are appealing for witnesses and information after a fatal collision in Sidcup. Officers were called to Blackfen Road, Sidcup at 12:16pm on Saturday, 6 November following reports of a road traffic collision. London Ambulance Service and London...
Marcus Coates, who has links to the London and Kent areas, was last seen in Bristol after he absconded from HMP Leyhill in Gloucestershire. Police are urging the public not to approach Coates, but to call 999 if they spot him. A spokesperson for...
David Fuller, 67, filmed himself abusing at least 100 bodies in two Kent hospital morgues over 12 years. It comes after Fuller, of Heathfield, East Sussex, admitted murdering Wendy Knell and Caroline Pierce in 1987. Sajid Javid told the Commons...
Police in Warwickshire are seeking Jerry Connors, 23 (pictured left) and Larry O’Reilly, 21, are wanted for failing to attend Coventry Magistrates’ Court last week to face charges of conspiracy to commit burglary. Both men have links to...
Detectives investigating reports of assaults on two Maidstone police officers are appealing for witnesses. The incident happened in a Medway Street car park at around 11.40pm on Saturday 6 October 2021, after a police patrol stopped to speak to...
Dover port currently dealing with nine illegals who attempted to enter Dovers Eastern Docks while a ferry was leaving port.
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Witnesses are being urged to come forward following a report of an assault in Dover. It is reported that a woman was assaulted by a man in or near The Priory Hotel public house in Priory Station Approach Road between 11.30pm on Saturday 6...
It is reported that a woman was assaulted by a man in or near The Priory Hotel public house in Priory Station Approach Road between 11.30pm on Saturday 6 November and 2am on Sunday 7 November 2021. She is then believed to have sought a taxi in...
A 46-year-old man is to appear in court charged with raping a woman in Folkestone. Kent Police was called to a report of a rape at a property in Tontine Street at around 3pm on Friday 5 November 2021. Officers attended and recovered an...
At 4.10pm on Wednesday 19 September 2021, two men knocked at an address in Church Road and enquired about a person who was not known to the occupier. Whilst the victim was distracted, it is reported one of the men went to another door and...
Four fire engines and around 25 firefighters were called to a laundrette fire on Main Road in Sidcup yesterday. Part of the ground floor of a mid-terraced laundrette with flats above was damaged by fire. Eleven people left neighbouring properties...
Aboard Nelson’s flagship Victory, he took over as First Sea Lord from Admiral Sir Tony Radakin, whose 29 months at the helm end as he moves on to become the new Chief of Defence Staff. He formally handed over command of more than 30,000 men and...
The Health Secretary has urged people to get their Covid-19 boosters and flu vaccines in order to prevent the return of Christmas restrictions this winter. Sajid Javid insists that it is not too late to book appointments if eligible. After six...
Two lorries were gutted by fire. A further lorry and four loading bays were also damaged by the blaze. Around 120 staff evacuated the building before the Brigade arrived. The Brigade was called at 6.39 pm and the fire was under control...
Two fire engines were sent to the scene and crews used hydraulic cutting equipment to release one casualty from their vehicle, who was passed into the care of paramedics. Kent Police, SECAmb and the air ambulance were also in attendance.
At around 10pm on Saturday 6 November 2021, the victim aged 19, was initially approached outside a shop at the junction of Magpie Hall Road and Shipwrights Avenue. It is reported a group of around six or seven people stole items from him during an...
Investigators are appealing for information following the death of a pedestrian on the A2 near Dartford. Kent Police was called at 12.25am on Sunday 7 November 2021 to a location on the A2 coastbound carriageway, close to the junction for the...
Kent police Police are in attendance Diversion follow the solid square symbol Exit the M2 at junction 4 then enter the north bound A278 and travel along this to the roundabout junction with the A2. Exit onto the A2 west bound and travel...
John Startup was reported missing at around 10.40am on Saturday 6 November 2021. Officers believe he may be in the Cliftonville area. The 30-year-old is described as white, with a broad, stocky build, approximately 5 feet and 10 inches tall...
Crews wearing breathing apparatus rescued a dog and used a hose reel jet to put out the fire. It is believed the fire started when the flame from a small candle spread. Firefighters are reminding the public how important candle placement is and that...
PC Jamie Rayner, 27, attached to the South Area Command Unit, appeared at Croydon Magistrates’ Court on Wednesday, 8 September and pleaded guilty to both charges. He was released on bail and was sentenced on Thursday, 4 November at Croydon...
On Saturday 28 September 2019, a man in his 40s was with friends in Rochester High Street when, at around 10.30pm, they visited the Eagle Tavern public house. Lewis Hayes arrived at the same venue a short while later. Both parties, who did not...
The Christmas bonus will take the form of an automatic, one-off £10 payment made on the first week of December. This will hopefully create less stress over the holidays for some of the six million people currently estimated to be on Universal...
Behind the scenes Mohammed was charging desperate people a small fortune – £12,000 per person – to bring them from the Continent. He worked with Birmingham man Billy Hems, a light aircraft pilot, to drop migrants at remote UK airfields on under-the...
Billy Hibberd, 31 of Frobisher Road, Erith, was sentenced to nine months’ imprisonment, suspended for two years, at Woolwich Crown Court on Tuesday, 2 November. He was found guilty of actual bodily harm at the same court on 15 October...
The incident happened at around 7.30pm on Friday 22 October 2021 and involved a white Honda 125 motorcycle and a black off-road motorbike. The rider of the Honda, a man aged 19, was taken to a London hospital but later died from his injuries. ...
Information is sought following a number of assaults in Folkestone in the early hours of Sunday 31 October 2021. Police attended a premises in Tontine Street shortly after 1am after two members of staff reported being assaulted. Following...
The incident took place on a flight to Belgium, where West Ham were playing Genk in the Europa League. West Ham drew the game 2-2 on Thursday and have qualified for the knockout stage of the competition. “West Ham are appalled by the...
Sue Harvey was reported missing at around 3.30pm on Thursday 4 November 2021 and was last seen in the Woodchurch area of the district. The 63-year-old is described as white, with greying light brown hair and may be wearing glasses. She is...
Franck Dhersin, vice president of the Hauts de France region, said all victims were from Eritrea, adding one of the three injured people was in a state of “absolute emergency”. Train operator SNCF said traffic would remain...
>South Yorkshire Police have confirmed a murder investigation is underway after discovering an 18-year-old’s body on Catherine Street yesterday morning. The 38-year-old, from Doncaster, remains in police custody. The family of the 18-year...
South Yorkshire Police have confirmed a murder investigation is underway after discovering an 18-year-old’s body on Catherine Street yesterday morning. The 38-year-old, from Doncaster, remains in police custody. The family of the 18-year-old...
Danny Lawson was reported missing around 12.45pm on Thursday 4 November 2021 and was last seen in the St Stephen’s area of the city. The 33-year-old is described as having facial stubble and is believed to be wearing a dark coloured hooded...
Wayne Smith, 37, from Rickyard, Guildford, has been described by his family as a “bubbly, boisterous man who had a radiant smile”. Wayne was admitted to hospital in critical condition on Friday, 15 October, after suffering stab wounds and sadly...
David Fuller, aged 67, previously from Heathfield, appeared at Maidstone Crown Court on 4 November 2021 and admitted murdering Wendy Knell and Caroline Pierce in 1987. He will be sentenced at a later date. He has also admitted 51 further charges...
Fuller had previously also pleaded guilty to 51 further charges relating to sexual offences, including section 70 of the Sexual Offences Act 2003 and section 63 of the Criminal Justice and Immigration Act 2008, making and taking indecent images...
A motorist who was stabbed in the arm following a collision in Larkfield has seen the man responsible sent to prison. On 23 November 2020, a man in his 20s was driving his car in New Hythe Lane when it was involved in a collision with an Audi. ...
