Kent

Justice by Postcode: Legal Aid Deserts Affect One in Three People Across Kent and Medway

October 12, 2026 // 0 Comments

A woman trying to escape an abusive relationship in Maidstone, a defendant looking for criminal legal help in Tunbridge Wells, or a family in Swale trying to resolve a [...]

Kent and Medway Fuel Prices Exposed: 29p a Litre Difference Between Cheapest and Most Expensive Pumps

October 8, 2026 // 2 Comments

Updated 08/10/26 @12:57 A litre of petrol for 166.9p in one part of Kent. A reported price of 195.9p at a motorway service area. That’s a difference of 29p a litre — [...]

Folkestone & Hythe’s Cost-Cutting Elephant Takes Off — Literally

October 4, 2026 // 0 Comments

A work of satire, inspired and adapted from Sławomir Mrożek’s short story “The Elephant”. The events described below are entirely fictional. It had been six months [...]

What Lies Beneath Kent? 596 Historic Landfill Sites Mapped — Including 26 Special Waste Sites

October 2, 2026 // 0 Comments

Across Kent and Medway lie hundreds of places once used to dispose of waste — some dating back to an era before modern landfill regulation existed at all. An analysis by [...]

3,207 People on Foot Killed or Injured on Kent and Medway Roads, 2021–2025

October 2, 2026 // 0 Comments

Sixty-four pedestrians were killed on roads across Kent and Medway between 2021 and 2025. Another 840 were seriously injured. And beneath those two figures sits the most [...]

Kent After Dark: 4,168 Hedgehog Records Reveal a County of Safe Havens and Deadly Roads

October 1, 2026 // 0 Comments

Autumn is upon us, and it’s that time of year when our lovely prickly friends — hedgehogs — begin looking for somewhere safe to hole up until spring. A pile of leaves [...]

Where Kent & Medway Keep Crashing: 18,400 Collisions, 24,390 Casualties and 252 Deaths Mapped

September 30, 2026 // 1 Comment

Every dot on our map marks a journey in Kent or Medway which ended with somebody being injured. Between 1 January 2021 and 31 December 2025, police recorded 18,400 [...]

Kent’s NHS Is Clogged: 500 Patients Can’t Get Out — While Thousands Struggle to Get In

September 30, 2026 // 0 Comments

Getting into the health system is difficult. Getting out of it can be just as difficult. That, in simple terms, is the problem facing Kent and Medway. At one end, patients [...]

The First Rung Is Missing: Kent’s Stark Divide in Jobs for Young People

September 16, 2026 // 0 Comments

The postcode a young person calls home can make a huge difference to the number of realistic entry-level jobs around them. In Kent and Medway, the gap is enormous. New data [...]

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 [...]

Autumn in Rural Kent: Operation Mousetrap Begins Again

September 13, 2026 // 2 Comments

Autumn is creeping towards us again. For those of us who live out in the sticks, you can tell it’s coming long before somebody on the television starts standing beneath a [...]

Kent and Medway LGR Paused as Government Reviews Option 4B and Orders Councils to Stop Work

September 7, 2026 // 0 Comments

Kent and Medway’s Local Government Reorganisation hasn’t been cancelled. But Whitehall has now told councils to stop implementing July’s decision because ministers may [...]

Kent LGR Secrecy: FHDC Withholds MoU Figures Under FOI Section 22 — Even Though They’re Already Public

September 1, 2026 // 0 Comments

An FoI request submitted to Folkestone & Hythe District Council on 30 July 2026 asked for the Local Government Reorganisation Implementation Reserve Memorandum of [...]

Nepal Disaster: Folkestone & Hythe Sends Messages of Hope and Comfort to Those Affected

August 27, 2026 // 2 Comments

The terrible events unfolding in Nepal and the wider Himalayan region will feel a very long way from Kent. But for many families across Folkestone & Hythe and the county, [...]

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

August 24, 2026 // 1 Comment

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

Justice by Postcode: Legal Aid Deserts Affect One in Three People Across Kent and Medway

Kent and Medway Fuel Prices Exposed: 29p a Litre Difference Between Cheapest and Most Expensive Pumps

Folkestone & Hythe’s Cost-Cutting Elephant Takes Off — Literally

What Lies Beneath Kent? 596 Historic Landfill Sites Mapped — Including 26 Special Waste Sites

3,207 People on Foot Killed or Injured on Kent and Medway Roads, 2021–2025

Kent After Dark: 4,168 Hedgehog Records Reveal a County of Safe Havens and Deadly Roads

Where Kent & Medway Keep Crashing: 18,400 Collisions, 24,390 Casualties and 252 Deaths Mapped

The First Rung Is Missing: Kent’s Stark Divide in Jobs for Young People

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

Autumn in Rural Kent: Operation Mousetrap Begins Again

Kent and Medway LGR Paused as Government Reviews Option 4B and Orders Councils to Stop Work

Kent LGR Secrecy: FHDC Withholds MoU Figures Under FOI Section 22 — Even Though They’re Already Public

Nepal Disaster: Folkestone & Hythe Sends Messages of Hope and Comfort to Those Affected

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

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

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

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

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