KentOnline News

• Proud history of vaccine hub site

  How the site set to become Kent's mass Covid vaccination centre also helped in the war.

• Motorway closure for second night

  A section of the M20 is sealed off again tonight while maintenance work continues.

• Crews stop house fire from spreading

  Firefighters have put out a blaze in a two-storey property and prevented it from reaching neighbouring homes.

• Big fall in county's Covid rates

  The coronavirus infection rate in Kent is now nearly in line with the national average after another significant drop.

• Rising demand to shut barracks

  Thousands of names have been added to petitions demanding the closure of army barracks housing asylum seekers.

• Burglary attack terror for pensioner

  A woman in her 80s was punched in the face and knocked to the floor by an intruder who broke into her home.

• Concerns grow for missing girl

  Police say they are becoming increasingly concerned for the welfare of a girl who disappeared five days ago.

• Give Tommy 100th birthday cheer

  A campaign has been launched to send 100th birthday cards to a D-Day veteran who has had to stay in isolation for a year.

• Cannabis plants seized during police raid

  Twenty cannabis plants have been seized after police raided a Kent property.

• 'Loud bang' as caravan catches fire

  Police have launched an investigation into the cause of a fire after flames engulfed a caravan.

• Fisherman rescued after severing his finger

  Volunteer lifeboat crews were called to a fishing vessel off the Kent coast after a man on-board severed his finger.

• Carer feared she’d be trapped after car flipped into ditch

  A carer who flipped her car into a ditch after skidding on black ice feared she would be trapped in the wreckage with no one able to find her.