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KCC’s £100m AI Surveillance Framework: The GDPR Guide That Thinks It’s About Electric Cars

August 25, 2026 // 0 Comments

Kent County Council’s national surveillance framework can help public bodies buy facial-recognition cameras, artificial-intelligence surveillance, biometrics, ANPR, thermal [...]

Kent Council Debt: Borrowing Reaches £2.45bn as Medway Overtakes KCC Ahead of Local Government Reorganisation

August 24, 2026 // 0 Comments

New Government figures show nine of Kent’s 14 councils borrowing more than two years ago. With four new unitary councils due in 2028, those liabilities aren’t simply [...]

Kent’s AI Border Towers: £21m Spent as 153,000 People Arrived by Small Boat — Now the Home Office Plans to Spend £120m More

August 23, 2026 // 1 Comment

Walk west along the shingle at Hythe and, above the beach, an unusual structure looks out over the Channel. Roughly 18ft high, it carries radar and electro-optical and [...]

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Kent Council Debt: Borrowing Reaches £2.45bn as Medway Overtakes KCC Ahead of Local Government Reorganisation

Kent’s AI Border Towers: £21m Spent as 153,000 People Arrived by Small Boat — Now the Home Office Plans to Spend £120m More

Kent’s Education Divide: GCSE Results, Deprivation and Grammar Schools

Kent Fire Response Times Worsen: One in Seven Dwelling Fires Takes 15 Minutes or More

I’m a Romney Marsh Farmer — Solar Farms Could Help Keep Farms Like Mine Alive

KCC Scraps £14.5m Junction 11 Waste Transfer Station for Folkestone & Hythe After £722,000 Spend

Exclusive: Kent and Medway Councils Agreed £11.9m LGR Fund Before Government Chose Option 4B

16 People Report E. coli Issues After Sea Swimming at Hythe, Dymchurch and Littlestone

Kent County Council’s £4m NHS Invoice: Zena Cooke, Ivor Duffy and the Missing Evidence

Kent’s Education Divide: A-Level Results, Deprivation and Grammar Schools

John Logie Baird in Folkestone: Was It the Birthplace of Television?

Kent County Council Exit Payments: £1.66m Gap Between Official Figures

Howletts and Port Lympne: What the Accounts Reveal About Debt, Reserves and Redundancies

Kent SEND Deficit More Than Doubles to Nearly £300m as KCC Forecasts Another £110m

Kent Housing Conditions: Government Data Models One in Five Homes as Non-Decent in Four Council Areas

All Kent Rivers Polluted With Toxic Chemicals, Environment Agency Data Shows

Folkestone Town Mayor Jackie Meade on Community, Charity and Civic Pride

University of Kent Financial Crisis: Cuts, Consultants and Merger with Greenwich

East Kent Hospitals: Six Chief Executives, Nine Chairs and 15 Years of Failed Leadership