The Latest Breaking News from Kent

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump has expressed his intention, if elected to a second term, to use the U.S. armed forces to suppress domestic protests. The New York Times reports that Trump’s allies are marshaling legal arguments to justify using National Guard or active-duty military troops for crowd control.

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Bake Off presenter chides opponents of plan to convert Smarden’s 600-year-old Chequers Inn into house

PC Leo Steeden declared ‘I am the police’ after crashing his car into a couple’s wall around their home in Kent

Man charged with murder after Sonia Maria Parker, 51, died at her Edenbridge home in May

Kits emerge for after-dark dips in Northumberland, London, Kent and the Cairngorms after reintroduction drive

Change the language, change the reality: that’s the theory, because it’s cheaper. Thanet District Council, which administers a somewhat unlovely part of Kent, has imposed a Public Spaces Protection Order (PSPO) which means you can be fined £100 for swearing in the street. So, if, for instance, you want to…

Ricky Jones arrested after video showed him apparently calling for violence against ‘Nazi fascists’

Ricky Jones, a borough councillor in Dartford, Kent, is thought to have made the call at a demonstration on Wednesday evening.