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Fresh plans have been unveiled for a major development scheme, five months after a shock council decision blocked previous proposals.
Station Road in Strood was closed to allow SGN engineers to investigate a reported gas leak. It was coned off at 9am Tuesday, May 27 at its junction with the High Street. At the time the firm gave no ...
Kent author Frederick Forsyth has died at the age of 86, after a brief illness. The best-selling writer, who was born in Ashford and penned The Day Of The Jackal, was surrounded by his family as he ...
A 14-year-old boy who was fatally stabbed in Manchester has been named by police as Ibrahima Seck, with his family paying tribute to him as “funny, caring and hardworking”. Ibrahima was found with ...
Labour backbenchers have called for a Government U-turn on planned disability benefit cuts, after Chancellor Rachel Reeves restored winter fuel payments to a majority of pensioners. Ms Reeves’ £1.25 ...
A bus driver who killed a nine-year-old girl riding her bike on the pavement having fallen asleep at the wheel with drugs in ...
The mother of an autistic teenager who was groomed and “brainwashed” by right-wing extremists says she was not treated as a ...
Rhianan Rudd died in a children’s home in May 2022, five months after terrorism charges against her were dropped.
A former GP has gone on trial accused of sexually abusing nine male patients by carrying out unjustified genital examinations, a jury has heard.
An 11-year-old girl has also been left fighting for her life in hospital after the fire broke out in Heckmondwike on Sunday.
A “reckless and selfish” bus driver who crashed into a schoolgirl while she was riding her bike has been sent to prison.
Peter Brooks, 61, stabbed Graeme Perks and doused the ground floor of his home in petrol in the early hours of January 14 2021.