On Monday 25 January 2021, Jason Campbell was travelling over 60 miles-per-hour, twice the speed limit on Broad Oak Road, which meant he couldn’t...
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On Monday 29 March 2021 at around 5pm officers working with the Kent and Essex Serious Crime Directorate stopped a vehicle in Leybourne and arrested the driver. Sammy Redsell, 38, has been charged with conspiracy to supply class A and B drugs...
Four fire engines were sent to the scene and crews wearing breathing apparatus used hose reel jets to extinguish the flames, before using a high pressured fan to clear the property of smoke. No casualties were reported. It’s believed the fire...
A2 and part of M25 closed after collision near Darenth Interchange Road closures are in place following a collision between a lorry and a roadside barrier on the A282. The incident was reported to Kent Police at 1.20pm on Wednesday 7 April 2021...
Separate figures published by the UK’s statistics agencies show there have been 150,000 deaths registered in the UK where Covid was mentioned on the death certificate. As of 9am on Tuesday, there have been a further 2,379 positive tests in the UK...
The incident happened at around 10.30pm on Sunday 4 April 2021 when the victim, a man in his 20s, was approached by two men after parking his blue VW Polo in Sea Street. He was reportedly forced to hand over the keys to the vehicle after one...
Officers in North Kent CID are investigating a report that a man in his 40s was assaulted in Peacock Street by two men at around 8.50am on Wednesday 17 March 2021. The incident took place close to the junction with St Andrew’s Road. A member of...
Officers have now returned the wheelchair to its rightful owner, who requires it to move around independently and discovered it was missing after it had been left outside a property in Junction Road. The theft was reported to Kent Police at...
Ciaran Leigh Morris was being pushed along the pavement by family at the time and suffered serious injuries. He was rushed to hospital but nothing could be done to save him. James Paul Davis, aged 34, has been charged with causing death by...
The incident happened on Lower Road at the junction with Bower Road, at 8.55pm on Easter Sunday. A man in his 50s suffered serious injuries when the blue BMW 118i he was driving left the carriageway and collided with a garden wall. He is...
Gritting alert: Monday 5th April gritters will be treating all primary routes from 10pm this evening due to minimum expected road surface temperatures of -1.7c overnight.
Two fire engines were sent to the scene and crews wearing breathing apparatus used hose reel jets and a fog spike to extinguish the flames. No casualties were reported. The fire is believed to have started accidentally due to an electrical fault.
On Thursday 31 March 2021, officers acting on information that a car was being driven by a person without insurance or a licence stopped the car in London Road, Dover. They arrested the driver and it is alleged that an officer was assaulted...
An unlicensed music event was prevented this Easter weekend following reports that people had planned to meet at Polhill, Sevenoaks. Kent Police received information on Saturday 3 April at approximately 6.50pm that an event was being planned and...
A disabled teenager says she has lost his independence after heartless thieves snatched her electric wheelchair from outside a property in Gillingham over the weekend. The chair had been left outside as there was no room to store it at the property...
At around 3.40pm on 2 April 2021 a pedestrian reported being robbed in Longport after being approached by two men driving a car. The male victim was walking down the road when two men inside a black car called him over to them in a...
At approximately 3pm on Saturday, 3 April, the man who has been named as David Chick came down from the crane. He has been arrested on suspicion of aggravated trespass, public nuisance and criminal damage.” Chick had scaled a crane...
Three fire engines were sent to the incident and crews wearing breathing apparatus used hose reel jets to extinguish the fire. The cause is believed to be accidental.
Three fire engines were sent to the scene and the single-storey barn was well alight on arrival. Crews used covering jets and a high-pressure fan to extinguish the blaze. No casualties were reported and the cause is believed to be accidental.
Brandon Jones, 23, of Thistledown, Gravesend, has been charged with one count of arson with intent to endanger life. Kent Police was called to the fire at in Salem Place at 12.42am on Wednesday 31 March 2021. Officers attended, along with...
The incident is reported to have happened at 10.15pm on 2 April 2021 in St Thomas Place. The male victim was walking past two men near an alleyway when they are reported to have used a knife to threaten him and rob him of his bank card and...
The pale blue Ford Anglia – which had been a replica of the Weasleys’ car from the Harry Potter films – was stolen from a Walmer garage by 37-year-old Richard Matthews in October 2019. However a media appeal and investigation using CCTV...
Kent Police was called at 2.45am on Wednesday 31 March 2021 after a reported altercation inside and then outside a property in Bayle Street. Officers attended and two men were taken to a local hospital with head injuries and have since been...
At around 4.30pm on Thursday 4 March 2021, a 15-year-old boy was walking in St Aidan’s Way when he was approached by a group of 10 teenagers. It is reported one of the teenagers demanded that the victim hand over his mobile phone and, when he...
Officers from Kent Police’s County Line Team noticed suspicious activity in the Shorncliffe Road area of the town on Tuesday 30 March 2021. A 26-year-old woman and a 24-year-old man were arrested on suspicion of possession of class A...
Four fire engines were sent to the scene and the property was well alight on arrival. Crews wearing breathing apparatus used main jets, compressed air foam and water from a local hydrant to extinguish the blaze. No casualties were reported, and the...
Ryan Paul Roberts, 25, of Madeira Road, Plymouth, has been charged with attempted arson with intent to endanger life. The incident occurred during the protest in Bristol on 21 March, which saw thousands on the city’s streets. He has also...
David Chick 52, who has taken over a crane in East London has issued a statement via his solicitor: He has said that ‘he is truly sorry for the disruption to the construction workers on sit who may have lost income due to his location choice...
The Protestor who we understand to be 52-year old David Chick who scaled the 2420ft crane in east London to unfurl banner saying ‘dads lives matter’ and ‘plans to stay there for several days’ Police were called to Hallsville...
The blaze is believed to have spread from the property’s chimney stack. Three fire engines were sent to the scene and crews wearing breathing apparatus used tools to cut away and gain access to the fire, before using hose reel jets to...
Graham Pitcairn was arrested on Tuesday 3 March 2020 after officers from Kent Police’s Paedophile Online Investigation Team received intelligence that a computer at his former address had accessed a website that hosted child abuse material...
Nicholas Barrs committed the assault against a motorist while they sat inside a parked car in Gillingham in May 2020. The 38-year-old, of Balmoral Road, Gillingham, admitted attempting to cause grievous bodily harm and possessing an offensive...
The victim was walking in Frindsbury Road on Wednesday 31 March 2021 when at around 11am three men inside a black saloon car approached him. One of the men is alleged to have forced the victim inside the vehicle. He was then driven around for...
At 9.40pm on Monday 29 March 2021, Kent Police received a report that two men had been seen stealing a catalytic converter from a vehicle in Kings Drive. They got into a car being driven by a third male and left the area. Officers in an unmarked...
Jack Davis was jailed at Maidstone Crown Court, after phone evidence also proved he had been orchestrating a supply network to multiple users. Davis was a passenger in a car which was stopped by patrols on 29 September 2018, following reports of...
Two fire engines attended and crews used hydraulic cutting equipment to remove a door from one of the vehicles and safely release the driver. No other casualties were reported.
Information is sought following a suspected arson in Northfleet. At 12.42am on Tuesday 31 March 2021, Kent Police was called to a fire at a property in Salem Place. The property was evacuated before it was safely extinguished by Kent Fire and...
The incident happened at around midday on Thursday 11 February 2021, when a quantity of toiletries was allegedly stolen from Boots in the High Street. Officers are now able to issue CCTV images of two people who they believe could help with...
Traffic is queueing after a broken down horsebox called traffic chaos on the Essex bound Dartford tunnel crossing this afternoon. Traffic officers from highways England assisted in recovering a broken down horsebox broke down on the exit slip of the...
Investigators are appealing for witnesses following a serious collision on the A21 near Lamberhurst. At 12.09pm on Monday 29 March 2021, a blue DAF lorry was travelling south along the A21 between Lamberhurst Quarter and the Forstal Farm Roundabout...
Two men are reported to have approached her while she was walking on The Hallow Way, an alleyway between Anne of Cleves Road and Priory Road, at around 7.25pm on 16 March 2021. The suspects demanded she hand over her mobile phone and cash, before...
It is reported a man used abusive language during an altercation at a McDonald’s drive-through in Hart Street. The incident happened at around 11.30pm on Friday 12 March 2021. The man and woman were in different vehicles and became involved in a...
At around 7.15pm on Friday 26 March 2021, officers became suspicious of a vehicle which was travelling towards Ashford. Suspecting it may be involved in supplying class A drugs, it was stopped on the slip road for junction 10, leading to the arrest...
Following a three-month pilot, the National Health Service (NHS), Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) and Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) have been working in partnership to launch the scheme today (Wednesday, 31 March) which aims to increase...
Peter Toth was last seen on Tuesday 30 March 2021 at around 11.30am in the Upper Stone Street area. He is described as being five feet and eleven inches tall, of slim build with short, straight dark brown hair and stubble. Peter is believed...
The charges follow an incident in which police were called to a report of theft of alcohol and threats to staff at a petrol station in Beaver Lane, Ashford during the evening of Thursday 25 March 2021. Christopher Leech, 28 of Tupman...
The vehicle’s windscreen was shattered as a result of the incident, which happened at around 2.40pm on Wednesday 24 March 2021, near the junction for Wrotham. It is alleged objects were thrown as the driver was passing a bridge on the A227...
Metropolitan Police officers “acted appropriately” at the Clapham Common vigil held in Sarah Everard’s memory, a detailed review has found. The inspectorate found that: – police officers at the vigil did their best to peacefully disperse the crowd –...
Information is sought to help locate a teenage boy who has been reported missing from Sheerness. Ritchie Sheehan was last seen in the Invicta Road area of the town at around 7.50pm on Monday 29 March 2021. The 13-year-old is...
