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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Darryl Carpenter is last known to have been in the Gillingham High Street area on Thursday 19 November 2020. The 17-year-old is described as being 5 foot 4 inches tall with a medium build and short, brown hair which is slicked back. He was last...
On Monday 14 September 2020, patrols were called to Well Field in Hartley where a man alleged he had been assaulted and his van stolen. The vehicle was recovered near Cliffe with a quantity of parcels missing from the rear. Later the same day...
The incident happened at around 3.30pm on Monday, 31 August at a bus stop on Broadway, Bexleyheath. A 35-year-old woman and her seven-year-old child were waiting at a bus stop along with a man, described as white and aged in his late 50s. The man...
Detectives investigating the robbery of an elderly woman in Bexleyheath have charged a man. Jay Makwana, 40 of Northumberland Park, Erith, Kent was arrested on Tuesday, 24 November. He was taken to a south London police station and was charged on...
The tortoises are classed as endangered and it is alleged they were taken from an outbuilding in Colt Stead, between Friday 20 November and Saturday 21 November 2020. Officers investigating the theft have issued images of the animals. They are...
Kent Police was called to Lakemead after a man was seen stealing tools from a garage at around 6.40pm on Monday 23 November 2020. The suspect, who is described as wearing a dark hoodie, jumped over a fence after being disturbed by the victim...
A suspected dealer has been charged after drugs were seized at a Maidstone address. At 6am on Wednesday 25 November 2020, a search warrant for drugs was executed at the premises in Grove Road. Officers from Kent Police’s County Line and Gang...
Both suspects were arrested on Monday 23 November 2020 after enquiries carried out by the Kent and Essex Serious Crime Directorate identified them as suspects involved in coordinating the supply of the cocaine, and also ketamine and cannabis. ...
Theft charges have been authorised against a man who is alleged to have stolen ink cartridges worth around £1,500 from a supermarket in Faversham. Albert Ramsden is accused of targeting the business, in Bysing Wood Road, on three occasions...
A 27-year-old man who pointed a loaded shotgun at police in Ramsgate has been jailed for three years and nine months. Police were attending a disturbance on the seafront when Joshua Chambers was seen to brandish the live firearm as he sat in his...
More than forty people have been fined after attempting to cross the Channel since the weekend despite several warnings to heed Government regulations and keep people safe from Covid-19. Since Friday 20 November officers have continued to engage...
Kent Fire and Rescue Service along with officers from Kent Police were called to a collision involving a van and heavy goods vehicle on the London-bound M20 between junctions 9 and 8 in the early hours of Wednesday morning. Fire crews used hydraulic...
Detectives are appealing for witnesses to come forward following an assault in Margate. Kent Police was called at 7.10pm on Friday 20 November 2020 after a man suffered head injuries in the town’s High Street. It was reported that there...
The customised blue Ford Anglia car was stolen from Station Road, Walmer on Thursday 17 October 2019. Following a Kent Police investigation, Richard Matthews, 36, has been charged with burglary. Mr Matthews, formerly of Ingoldsby Road...
William Saunders kicked, punched and beat his victims with a heavy torch, after targeting them in a park close to where he lived in Camp Way. The three young men had been socialising in an area of Mangravet Recreation Ground, at around 10.30pm...
George Wallace, 26 of Wichling Close, Orpington, was found guilty of attempted rape and trespass with intent to commit a sexual offence at Woolwich Crown Court following a trial on Monday, 23 November. He was sentenced on the same day to a total of...
The item was found by a person fishing in a river near Overy Street, but after being left on a wall it then disappeared before police attended. Kent Police was called to the area at 5.40pm on Sunday 22 November 2020. The Explosive Ordnance...
Robbery and weapon charges have been authorised against a teenage boy following an investigation by the Chief Constable’s Crime Squad. The 17-year-old, who is from Bermondsey, London, is alleged to have been involved in two robberies which were...
Officers entered the address in Weald View Road at around 6.25am on Saturday 21 November 2020. They seized 123 cannabis plants growing in a number of the rooms and arrested a man. Xhemali Rexhmati, aged 26, of Weald View Road, Tonbridge was...
Labourer David Nicholas Wilson, 36, created and used the series of fake identities to contact the victims on Facebook and other social media. Using unregistered phones, he sent sexual images of young women from the internet in exchange for...
On Saturday 21 November 2020, officers were in an unmarked police vehicle in Douglas Road, when their attention was drawn to a Vauxhall Meriva that had stopped at the side of the road. Suspecting the driver to be involved in the supply of drugs...
On Monday afternoon, PM Boris Johnson will explain the detail of England’s return to the “three tier system” when lockdown ends on 2 December. While parts of the tier system will be toughened, the 10pm closing time for pubs and...
A supermarket chain is offering a discount to frontline workers for their “tireless” efforts during the pandemic. The Morrisons’ markdown of 10% has been made available to those in the emergency services, armed forces and social care. All shoppers...
Four fire engines and around 25 firefighters attended a fire in a private residential garage attached to a house on Brookmead Avenue in Bromley. A small area of the semi-detached house over two floors was damaged by the fire in the adjoining garage...
Officers from the Serious Collision Investigation Unit are appealing for witnesses following a collision involving a cyclist and a car in Otford. The collision occurred on Saturday 21 November 2020 at about 10.05am on Filston Lane. The...
Members of the shooting party were attempting to kill ducks, geese and marsh harriers (who are included in the Amber list of UK species of conservation concern and are legally protected), shooting the birds as they were flying home to roost as dusk...
It represents a big fall from Friday, when 20,252 cases and 511 deaths were recorded – and an even bigger drop from last Saturday when there were 26,860 cases and 462 deaths.
Witnesses are sought following a reported robbery at a home in Minster, Sheppey. At around 3pm on Thursday 19 November 2020, two men are reported to have forced their way into a house in Lower Road before threatening the occupant with a knife...
A repeat burglar who targeted homes across Medway and Gravesend has been jailed for five and a half years. Johnny Connors committed the offences across June and July 2019 and, during one of the break-ins, a woman was threatened with a...
Leon Davis, of Maran Way, Erith, was arrested in south-east London in May 2020 following an investigation by Kent Police. He admitted being concerned in the supply of cocaine and heroin at Canterbury Crown Court on Monday 21...
As of 9am on Friday there had been a further 20,252 lab-confirmed cases of coronavirus in the UK. It brings the total number of cases in the UK to 1,473,508. * The process of approving the Pfizer vaccine has begun and delivery could start from...
The M20 is closed eastbound between Junction 8 (Maidstone) and Junction 9 (Ashford) due to a collision involving 2 lorries Kent police are in attendance and major recovery operation is taking place. The collision happened near Harrietsham. ...
The M20 is closed eastbound between Junction 8 (Maidstone) and Junction 9 (Ashford) due to a collision involving 2 lorries Kent police are in attendance and major recovery operation is taking place. The collision happened near Harrietsham. ...
Over 2,500 house have been plunged into darkness across 20 postcodes this evening following a major power outage in Kent. Homes lost heating and light just after 6pm on Friday evening. Eletectity supplier UK Power who is the area power supplier...
There has been a collision on the M25 anti-clockwise in Kent which resulted in a full closure of the carriageway. The carriageway has now reopened however delays on the approach are currently adding at least 60 minutes to average journey times...
On arrival crews found a small fire; wearing breathing apparatus and using a dry powder extinguisher they put out the fire. A male resident, in his late 40s, living in the flats was given oxygen treatment for minor smoke inhalation. A UK Power...
Prof Andrew Hayward said there would be a “cost” to families getting together. It comes as No 10 has said proposals to ease restrictions over Christmas will be set out next week. Scientists have said that for every day measures are...
The COVID-19 vaccine developed by Oxford University produces a strong immune response in older adults, data from early trials has shown. The phase one and phase two results suggest that one of the groups most at risk of death or serious illness from...
Data from early trials have shown.
The phase one and phase two results suggest that one of the groups most at risk of death or serious illness from COVID-19 may be able to build immunity, according to data published in The Lancet medical journal.
Kent Police was called at 2.57pm on Thursday 19 November 2020 following a collision between a recovery truck and a motorbike in Otterham Quay Lane, Rainham. South East Coast Ambulance Service and the Kent, Surrey, Sussex Air Ambulance also...
In a major expansion of the Flash glucose monitoring rollout, people with learning disabilities will be eligible for a Flash device to help them manage any type of diabetes, provided they use insulin to treat their condition. Bradley Emmans, who...
The drugs were recovered along with almost £1,400 in cash after a search warrant was executed by the Tunbridge Wells Community Policing Team at an address in Bartley Mill Road. Police entered the property during the early hours of Friday 13...
Operation Sceptre, the national intensification to tackle knife crime, saw officers from across the whole of the Metropolitan Police Service ramp up activity to drive down violent crime and the carrying of knives across London. Weapons...
This year, two- and three-year olds, all primary school children, and children in school year 7 will be offered the flu vaccination on the NHS. For most children the vaccine is a quick and easy spray up the nose, making administration quick...
William Pallant was stopped and arrested by officers as he ran from his car near Dover in May 2020. Two knives and a knuckleduster were then found in the vehicle. Pallant, 22, has since admitted multiple offences and was sentenced to four and a...
The government’s medical adviser on Covid, Susan Hopkins, said they were working on a plan and wanted Christmas to be “as close to normal as possible”. BBC health correspondent Nick Triggle said any rule change would be for a...
Shortly before midday on Tuesday, 17 November 2020 officers stopped a car in London Road, Gravesend. A search of the vehicle uncovered a large quality of steroids and a man and a woman, who are both in their thirties, were arrested. Enquiries...
