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Asian restaurant could be converted into homes after being ruined by car crash
A much-loved restaurant forced to shut after a car smashed through its front window could be transformed into homes.
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Amateur boxer jailed after raping woman at house party
A rapist who callously bragged his victim had been "done a favour" has been jailed.
Parents reunited with paramedics after roadside baby delivery
The parents of a baby born on the roadside in the early hours of the morning have reunited with the paramedics who delivered him.
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Man charged with GBH as victim remains in serious condition in London hospital
A man has been charged, and more people have been arrested after a seafront assault.
Ramsgate man remanded on grievous bodily harm charge
A Ramsgate man has been remanded in custody in connection with a serious assault in Herne Bay. Shortly before 7pm on Monday 25 [...]...
Sinkhole opens up prompting main road closure
Police have shut a main route and set up diversions after a sinkhole appeared today.
A View from the Garden Gate Project: Autumn Bounty
By Nick Condron There’s a special moment each year when the air shifts, the sunlight mellows, and the unmistakable aroma [...]...
The small boats crisis on Kent’s doorstep - how did we get here?
Despite the government’s promises, the number of small boat crossings has continued to soar. Here, we look at why the crisis is so hard to control.
‘It was a wake-up call’: Restaurant cleans up act after damning hygiene inspection
A restaurant that shut after an inspector found blood on the walls and raw meat defrosting in the sink has cleaned up its act and reopened.
Opinion: The small boats crisis on Kent’s doorstep – how did we get here?
More than 50,000 people have arrived in Britain via the Channel on small boats since Labour’s landslide general election victory [...]...
Multi-agency search after report of swimmers in trouble at Western Undercliff
On Saturday (30 August) the Ramsgate RNLI inshore Atlantic 85 lifeboat Claire and David Delves was launched just before 6pm [...]...
Partial road closure remains at Cliffsend due to ‘sinkhole’
Traffic management and a partial road closure remains in place at Sandwich Road, Cliffsend, following the appearance of a deep [...]...
David Gray announces outdoor summer concert
The singer, best known for singles Babylon and Sail Away, is the seaside venue’s first headliner to be revealed for next year.
‘Rapper’s seaside concert was a trip down memory lane’
Our reporter caught grime artist Dizzee Rascal perform a night of hits by the Kent coast.
Two Asian hornet nests discovered in town
Two nests belonging to invasive hornets that threaten bee populations have been reported to the authorities.
New project to offer creative, fitness and wellbeing courses for adults in Thanet
A new project offering affordable part-time creative, fitness and wellbeing courses for adults in Thanet will launch this September. Coastal [...]...
Bomb disposal team detonates device as beach reopens
A Kent beach has reopened after a potentially unexploded bomb was detonated earlier today.
Freehold for former Legion club – and then emergency homeless site – in Margate to go to auction
The former Royal British Legion Club building in Margate -most recently used as a temporary hub for the homeless – [...]...
Community: Margate Ambulance Corps, Thanet camera club and Ramsgate Town Council
Margate Ambulance Corps By Molly Rennie On the 12th August, Margate Ambulance Corps sold one of their ambulances at reduced [...]...
Fifty bikers turn out for 140-mile Harley-Davidson charity run
Dozens of bikers joined a cruise around the county organised by Harley-Davidson riders in aid of a vital but often unnoticed medical service.