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Read Time:47 Second Witnesses are sought after a man died near Dartford. Kent Police officers and South East Coast Ambulance Service personnel from the Joint Response Unit attended a property in Homefield Farm Road, Sutton-at-Hone, shortly after...
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Read Time:19 Second Joshua Perry, 30, left his home in the Lunedale Road area of the town on Friday 17 December 2021 and has not been seen since. He is described as being clean-shaven and with short brown hair, and was wearing a white shirt...
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Read Time:2 Minute, 15 Second A call operator heard David Hucker fire two shots at 43-year-old Robert Williamson, who called for assistance while the pair argued at a Dartford home in May 2021. Hucker, 69, a former firearms instructor with...
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Read Time:23 Second The M25 is closed clockwise between J1B – J2 due to a collision involving two lorries, a car transporter and a car Kent police and ambulance services are on the scene. Traffic is being diverted via a distributor road that...
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Read Time:31 Second Kent Police was called to a report of a collision between a car and a pedestrian on the A226 London Road at Stone, near the junction with Acacia Road, at 3.50pm on Tuesday 14 December 2021. Officers attended along with South East...
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Read Time:20 Second Noah Efevberha is 12 and has not been seen since Monday 13 December 2021 and police are concerned for his welfare. Noah is black and of slim build. When he was last seen he was wearing a denim jacket and carrying a black Adidas...
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Read Time:21 Second The #DartfordTunnel east bore is BLOCKED following a road traffic collision. Recovery is being arranged. There is currently 1 mile of congestion on the approach to the tunnels. Highways England have Two lanes closed and...
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Read Time:1 Minute, 40 Second A Kent man jailed for money laundering has been ordered to repay the cash found hidden in supermarket and sports bags at his Dartford home. Karl Lockey, 33, of Sinclair Way, was sentenced to two years’ imprisonment in...
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Read Time:37 Second Traffic is moving in and out of a business site in Dartford, with five arrests made following a protest. At 4.24am on Friday 26 November 2021, officers were called to the Littlebrook Business Centre after a group of more than...
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Read Time:36 Second Traffic is moving in an out of a business site in Dartford, with five arrests made following a protest. At 4.24am on Friday 26 November 2021, officers were called to the Littlebrook Business Centre after a...
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Read Time:39 Second 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...
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Read Time:1 Minute, 2 Second Thirty-two people have been arrested after traffic was obstructed at two locations. At 8.05am on Wednesday 27 October 2021, Kent Police received a report that a group of protestors had gathered at the A206 Crossways...
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Read Time:28 Second At around 8.05am on Wednesday 27 October 2021, Kent Police received a report that a group of protestors had gathered at the location and some of those involved had glued themselves to the road surface, or each other. Officers...
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Read Time:21 Second Claudia Aigbogun was reported missing from The Green area of Dartford at around 9pm on Monday 18 October 2021. The 20-year-old is described as 5 feet, 5 inches tall, with plaited black hair, and was last seen wearing black...
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Read Time:29 Second Officers are currently at the scene of a collision at the eastern tunnel at the Dartford Crossing. Kent Police was called at around 11.20am on Thursday 14 October 2021 to the incident involving two lorries. One of the drivers has...
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Read Time:1 Minute, 9 Second Officers from Kent Police, traffic officer from Highway England and paramedics in South East Coast Ambulance Service have all been scrambled to the Dartford crossing. The collision is understood to involve to Uk...
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Read Time:42 Second Officers from Kent Police, traffic officer from Highway England and paramedics in South East Coast Ambulance Service have all been scrambled to the Dartford crossing. The collision is understood to involve to Uk registered HGV’s...
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Read Time:1 Minute, 29 Second Both occurred on Saturday 11 September – the first on a train travelling from Dartford to Charing Cross at 5.45pm and the second on a service travelling back to Dartford at just before 7pm. In the first incident...
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Read Time:2 Minute, 57 Second Following a fight with a man on a pub dancefloor, which continued into the street, Bradley Knapp got behind the wheel of a Ford Fiesta and accelerated towards a group of people. He missed his intended targeted but...
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Read Time:27 Second Posting on the club’s Facebook page they said: It’s with great sadness that we heard of the passing of one of our former players Keith ‘Flash’ Ashburn. He tragically died in a motorbike accident on Monday...
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Read Time:50 Second At around 9.15am on Monday 4 October 2021, a white KTM 390 motorcycle was involved in a collision with a white lorry, pulling a black trailer, in the east tunnel at the Dartford Crossing. Patrols and South East Coast...
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Read Time:33 Second Police and Paramedics have been scrambled after a lorry has been involved in a collision with a motorbike in the right hand tunnel of the Dartford crossing. Emergency services were called jut after 9am on Monday morning following...
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Read Time:1 Minute, 37 Second Officers from Dartford’s Community Safety Unit applied for the closure order following repeated calls to the house in Hill View. Local police officers successfully applied for the closure order under the Anti...
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Read Time:27 Second Insulate Britain protesters have once again blocked the flow of traffic on the M25 this morning (30 September) by glueing their hands to the tarmac. Essex police said: “All lanes of the M25 at Thurrock are open. Nine...
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Read Time:41 Second Witnesses are being urged to come forward after five police officers were injured during a collision in Dartford. The incident, which involved a Kent Police patrol car and a white Toyoya Prius taxi, happened in Home Gardens...
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Read Time:45 Second At 11.20pm on Thursday 22 July the victim approached three people, two teenage girls and one boy, who were causing a disturbance on the train and asked them to be quiet. They became verbally abusive and threatening towards the...
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Read Time:48 Second A CCTV image of a man who may be able to assist with enquiries into three offences committed in Dartford has been released by investigating officers. Following a careful review of available evidence, detectives believe the...
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Read Time:1 Minute, 47 Second The volunteer officers carried out stop checks in Dartford across the weekend of Saturday 7 and Sunday 8 August 2021 in order to remove uninsured, untaxed and defective vehicles from the roads, and to disrupt...
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Read Time:48 Second Police are appealing to the public for help in finding a man who is wanted in relation to an ongoing criminal investigation. Simeon Shaba, 19 is wanted in relation to an allegation of attempted murder which occurred in Dartford...
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Read Time:2 Minute, 18 Second The four agencies joined forces across Tuesday 3 August 2021 to carry out a series of patrols and stop checks across Gravesend and Dartford to combat the issue. The activity led to eight vehicles, many of which...
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Read Time:51 Second #A282 currently both #DartfordTunnels are held. This is due to traffic issues backing up from #J31. This is caused by the impact of the traffic being held on the #DartfordBridge due to the earlier vehicle fire. Updates to follow...
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Read Time:1 Minute, 9 Second A former local Mayor of Epsom Rob Foote, has been named locally as the marshal killed at Brands Hatch, whilst serving as a volunteer marshal at the famous motor racing circuit. The crash on Saturday 31st July at 3pm...
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Read Time:38 Second A vehicle stop in Dartford has led to a cocaine seizure and a cannabis cultivation being uncovered in Chatham. At around 8.30pm on Tuesday 27 July 2021, Kent Police officers on patrol in Princes Road requested a vehicle to...
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Read Time:1 Minute, 15 Second On Tuesday, 27 and Wednesday, 28 July 2021, officers from across the force, including those in the County Lines and Gangs Team, executed eight search warrants at properties across Gravesend and Dartford. The...
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Read Time:37 Second A blackmail charge has been authorised against a man alleged to have illegally accessed private photographs online. In October 2020 a victim from the Merseyside area reported that he had been asked to pay £3,000 to regain...
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Read Time:1 Minute, 31 Second Five charges have been authorised against an alleged drug dealer following a disturbance in Dartford. Oluwaseyi Oyeyemi was arrested in Lowfield Street on the evening of Saturday 17 July 2021 after Kent Police was...
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Read Time:1 Minute, 52 Second Between Saturday 24 and Sunday 25 July officers carried out 90 Section 60 searches across Dartford and Gravesend. The order was put in place following several unconnected assaults and gave officers the power to search...
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Read Time:1 Minute, 12 Second Fourth man arrested after serious assault in Dartford A fourth arrest has been made following a serious assault in Dartford. The detainee, who is a 21-year-old man, was arrested at around 11.15pm on Sunday 18 July 2021...
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Read Time:34 Second Teresa Sheldon was detained under a hospital order in July 2015 after she pleaded guilty to manslaughter on the grounds of diminished responsibility for the death of son Tommy. He was injured in the blaze in his mother’s silver...
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Read Time:13 Second The M25 from beneath Watling Street Bridge at Dartford around 12:15pm was closed for nearly seven hours after the pipe work fell. A total of six vehicles, including an NHS blood and transport van, were damaged. Miraculously, no...
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Read Time:1 Minute, 9 Second Kent Police was called to a disturbance in Lowfield Street at around 6pm on Saturday 17 July 2021. It was reported that a white Nissan Qashqai had collided with some roadside furniture before two men exited the...
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Read Time:36 Second Police in Kent has sealed a number of streets in Dartford following a serious incident that happened at around 7.30pm on Saturday evening Police and paramedics from South East Coast ambulance attended and one man was...
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Read Time:45 Second The girl who has been named locally as Lilly Lockwood was taken to a London hospital following the collision which happened while she was walking in Watling Street, near the junction with Meadow Way, shortly after 6.50pm on...
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Read Time:1 Minute, 35 Second The girl was taken to a London hospital following the collision which happened while she was walking in Watling Street, near the junction with Meadow Way, shortly after 6.50pm on Saturday 10 July. She died on the...
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Read Time:1 Minute, 6 Second The girl was taken to a London hospital following the collision which happened while she was walking in Watling Street, near the junction with Meadow Way, shortly after 6.50pm on Saturday 10 July. She died on the evening...
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Read Time:43 Second The girl was taken to a London hospital following the collision which happened while she was walking in Watling Street, near the junction with Meadow Way, shortly after 6.50pm on Saturday 10 July. She died on the evening of...
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Read Time:34 Second The incident happened on Watling Street, near the junction with Meadow Way, shortly after 6.50pm on Saturday 10 July 2021. The pedestrian, a girl aged ten, was taken to a London hospital following the collision involving a...
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Read Time:2 Minute, 19 Second On Friday 11 June 2021, officers including the Rural Task Force, along with teams from Dartford and Gravesham borough councils, removed vehicles in a series of road checks aimed at reducing fly-tipping in the area...
