Investigations

Kent Police, Race and Power: When Does Disparity Become Institutional Racism? — Part Three

September 18, 2026 // 0 Comments

Racist misconduct has been proved against Kent Police officers. Black people are arrested at more than twice the White population rate and are substantially overrepresented [...]

£9m Later, the Wait Is Still a Mystery: Folkestone & Hythe’s Disabled Facilities Grants

September 17, 2026 // 0 Comments

In 2018/19, Folkestone & Hythe District Council said there was “currently no waiting list” for its Disabled Facilities Grant scheme. Today, the council tells [...]

Something Changed at Kent Police: Black Arrests Soared 79% in One Year — Part Two

September 16, 2026 // 0 Comments

In Part One, we examined what happened on the streets of Dover, where hundreds of anti-migration protesters descended on the town, dressed in black and wearing balaclavas, [...]

East Kent Health Divide: Four Coastal Constituencies Top Kent for Depression, COPD, Heart Disease and Stroke

September 15, 2026 // 0 Comments

Follow Kent’s coastline from Herne Bay through Thanet and Sandwich, down through Deal and Dover and on towards Folkestone and Hythe. The scenery changes. In the latest [...]

If Intent Is a ‘Fuzzy Line’, How Can FHDC Call It Fraud? Cllr Tim Prater and the £1.266m Question

September 14, 2026 // 1 Comment

When our public face asked Folkestone & Hythe District Council’s Cabinet Member for Finance and Governance how much of £1.266 million was actually fraud, Cllr Tim [...]

Hundreds of White Protesters, Many Masked, Zero Arrests: Kent Police at Dover — Part One

September 14, 2026 // 0 Comments

Part One of a ShepwayVox investigation into race, arrest rates and policing in Kent There’s a question hanging over what happened in Dover on Saturday 5 September 2026 [...]

Kent County Council Paid £27m to Place Children in Unregistered Homes Over Two Years.

September 11, 2026 // 0 Comments

Last month, The Shepway Vox Team revealed how Kent County Council paid Catalyst Care Limited £2,419,480.59 between 2021 and July 2025. Catalyst’s two controlling directors [...]

Kent County Council Register of Interests: Questions Extend Beyond Reform UK

September 8, 2026 // 0 Comments

Byline Times says it’s “not politically partisan” and promises to follow stories “wherever” they go, “without fear or favour”. Yet its investigation into [...]

Part Two: Hodson Developments — From Building Disputes to a £5 Million NHBC Claim

September 3, 2026 // 0 Comments

In Part One, we traced Alan Hodson (pictured) and Hodson Developments from Sunningdale through decades of housebuilding, land acquisition and secured finance. Part Two [...]

Part One: Alan Hodson and Hodson Developments — The Rise of the Property Business Behind Chilmington Green

September 1, 2026 // 0 Comments

This is the first of a three-part investigation into property developer Alan Derek Hodson (pictured), Hodson Developments and associated companies, prompted by the [...]

Allard and Dunlop: Five Liquidations, £705,820 in Creditor Exposure and a Trail of Failed Companies

August 30, 2026 // 1 Comment

Update: 4/09/26 10:05am – See bottom of article. Between October 2016 and March 2026, five companies linked to William Dunlop entered creditors’ voluntary liquidation [...]

Petticoat Lane Emporium Folkestone: ‘No Refund’ Sign, £77,580 Loss and £246,787 Short-Term Creditors

August 30, 2026 // 1 Comment

“Sorry — NO REFUND — ALL SALES FINAL.” That’s the notice facing customers at Petticoat Lane Emporium. The photograph supplied to The Shepway Vox Team shows it [...]

Folkestone & Hythe District Council’s £1.26m Fraud Report Doesn’t Say How Much Was Fraud — or Error

August 27, 2026 // 1 Comment

There’s a rather important word hiding inside Folkestone & Hythe District Council’s latest £1.26 million fraud figure. “Or.” FHDC says its investigations team [...]

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’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 [...]

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

August 21, 2026 // 2 Comments

Start in Tonbridge & Malling. Among GCSE results awarded to 16-year-olds at examination centres in the district this summer, 35.2% were grade 7 or above. Tunbridge Wells [...]

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

August 16, 2026 // 1 Comment

Zena Cooke (pictured below left) has moved on. So has Ivor Duffy (pictured below right). Cooke is now Lambeth Council’s Corporate Director of Resources and its statutory [...]

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

August 16, 2026 // 0 Comments

Start in Tonbridge & Malling. According to the 2026 council-area results, 46.4% of A-level entries there were awarded an A* or A. It was one of the strongest results [...]

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

August 12, 2026 // 0 Comments

Staff at Howletts and Port Lympne are facing proposed redundancies. That would be worrying enough at any major Kent employer. What makes this story rather stranger is what [...]

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

August 5, 2026 // 0 Comments

For six years the University of Kent cut jobs, closed subjects, sold financial breathing space and promised recovery. It spent £29.4 million restructuring itself and awarded [...]

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

August 4, 2026 // 0 Comments

East Kent Hospitals has spent 15 years changing the cast while leaving much of the script intact. A new review says staff can still regard speaking up as pointless or [...]

From Unsafe Homes to a Top-Rated Council Landlord: How the East Kent Housing Scandal Forced Folkestone & Hythe to Rebuild

August 2, 2026 // 1 Comment

Folkestone & Hythe District Council has earned the regulator’s highest consumer grade. It deserves proper credit. But C1 didn’t fall from a clear blue sky. It grew [...]

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