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Folkestone is about to lose one of its dental practices amid a mass cull of 85 nationwide. Around 1,200 staff across the UK could be affected as Bupa Dental Care has announced cuts.
It comes amid a national shortage of dentists and “systemic” challenge…
The coastguard service today plays a key, highly respected, role in protecting our coastline.
Yet hidden in its origins is an aggressive, ruthless force which once left Kent’s[1] beaches, literally, covered in blood in the pursuit of their goals.
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Plans to create a new town making it a district’s second largest are set to be decided amid neighbours’ fears it would “cause chaos” in the area. The 10,000-home Otterpool Park development[1] earmarked on land around the former Folkestone Racecourse an…
Enfield receives first electric Renault RCV
Enfield London borough council has received the first of four Renault electric refuse collection vehicles which are being delivered this year after extensive road trials in the borough.
The first Renault …
How cross-Channel people smugglers are choosing to settle in UK ‘because they find life easier’: Criminals are renting houses under fake names, driving without licences, and investing in British businesses, insider revealsThe anonymous insider claimed …
A people smuggler has revealed how most of those responsible for ferrying people across the Channel live in the UK.
An insider has claimed that ‘three-quarters’ of Channel smugglers reside in Britain as they find ‘life easier’ here, where they ar…
Government plans could see HGV drivers heading to Dover and Folkestone ports held in off-road, virtual queues, in Kent and beyond, to prevent the 20-mile long queues to the Channel Ports seen last year. The […]
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The government is to explore possible uses of digital systems to better manage queues of lorries outside south-coast ports – which, in the past year, have been reported to have regularly stretched back more than 20 miles.
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Evening Standard19-year-old charged after four die while crossing the ChannelA 19-year-old has been charged with facilitating attempted illegal entry into the United Kingdom, Kent Police have said.Ibrahima Bah, 19, of no fixed address was arrested on D…
Aram Rawf’s first sight of Kent came when he was dumped on a motorway roadside by people smugglers.
Having travelled in the back of a lorry for the previous seven days, the then 17-year-old didn’t even know which country he was in. That was until he wa…