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UK town comes with loud 4am wake up call for anyone who wants to move there

Folkestone, Kent, was recently named one of the best places to live in the UK by The Sunday Times and has become a magnet for people fleeing the capital to live by the seaside

Daily Mirror

Warning as highly invasive beetle found in UK for first time in 46 years

Colorado beetles, which swarm like a plague of locusts and can devastate crops, were last recorded in the UK in 1977- a year after one of the hottest summers and worst droughts in living memory

Daily Mirror

First asylum seekers arrive at Wethersfield Airfield in Essex

The first arrivals are people who were brought to a processing facility in Kent over the weekend from small boat crossings.

The Independent UK

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Home Office had murals for children removed at second asylum centre

Murals at Manston and Kent Intake Unit understood to have been painted over last week by MoJ estates team

The Guardian - UK

County cricket: Rew and Yates hit double centuries as English young guns fire

There were runs all over the country as some of England’s potential Test players of the future made hay and smashed glass

The Guardian - UK

Tory admits he's 'ashamed' after minister orders Disney mural is painted over

Immigration Minister Robert Jenrick ordered staff at an immigration detention centre in Dover, Kent, to paint over pictures of Mickey and Minnie Mouse, as well as cartoon favourites Tom and Jerry, because he felt they were too "welcoming"

Daily Mirror

Leaving London: how one family swapped a tiny rented flat in Zone 1 for a stone farmhouse in rural Northamptonshire

How one family swapped Zone 1 for a Kent commuter town before heading to rural Northamptonshire

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Kent police criticised for Top Gun tweet after identifying woman’s body

Mother of Azra Kemal, 24, says celebratory tweet on day of her daughter’s death was ‘horrendous’

The Guardian - UK

Robert Jenrick has cartoon murals painted over at children’s asylum centre

Paintings were considered too welcoming at Kent centre for lone children arriving in UK

The Guardian - UK

Travellers face two-hour queues at Port of Dover

The Kent port said processing times for passing through checks by French border officials are two hours for coaches and one-and-a-half hours for cars.

The Independent UK

Giant stone artefacts discovered on rare Ice Age site in Kent

Two extremely large flint knives, described as giant handaxes, were amongst the unearthed artefacts.

The Independent UK

E-scooters should be ‘seized and crushed’, police chief urges

Matthew Scott, who is the police and crime commissioner for Kent, warned against ‘a summer blighted by anti-social vehicles’

Evening Standard

Princess Kate visits Wimbledon. Rain interrupts play for the 2nd straight day

The Princess of Wales was at a rainy Wimbledon and is expected to sit in the Royal Box when play begins on Centre Court

The Independent UK

Who is in the Royal Box on the third day of Wimbledon?

The Royal Box is usually occupied by members of the royal family, celebrities and public figures

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Who is in the Royal Box at Wimbledon on second day of tennis championships?

The Royal Box is usually occupied by members of the royal family, celebrities and public figures

Daily Mirror

Greggs applies for its first ever 24-hour branch - in affluent cathedral city

Greggs wants to offer a round-the-clock service in Canterbury, Kent, and has applied for a special licence to serve sausage rolls, steak bakes and other favourites at all hours

Daily Mirror

'I went from earning £25 a week to owning the most McDonald’s restaurants in the UK'

Paul Crocker employs more than 1,700 people in Kent - owning nearly every McDonald's branch there and now operates 16 branches in the county

Daily Mirror

Child asylum seeker, 9, 'left unaccompanied and forced to stay in migrant hotel alone'

A court hearing detailed how a "high proportion" of asylum seekers initially accommodated in hotels are unaccompanied children under 16 - with the youngest aged just nine

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Janet Street-Porter left shaken after threatening man verbally abuses her on solo walk

TV star Janet Street-Porter has revealed that she has been left shocked and shaken after a man screamed abuse at her from a vehicle while she was walking alone

Daily Mirror

Workers left 'fearing for their lives' when huge cliff collapses in landslide

One demolition firm in Swanscombe, Kent, have been left fearing for their lives every time they go to work due to a landslide which destroyed part of their premises

The Guardian - UK

Asylum seekers at Manston may have been treated inhumanely, report finds

Council of Europe team raised a wide range of concerns based on visit to Kent detention centre last year

Evening Standard

Ten of the best seafront homes for sale in commuter hotspots — all under £1 million

Slowly caving to the call of the Kent, Sussex or Essex coast? These remarkable family homes have uninterrupted sea views

Evening Standard

London leaver: priced out of her hometown, one born and bred Londoner packed her bags for riverside Chatham

When London agents refused to register freelance Maxine, she tracked down private landlords – and a new life in Kent

Daily Mirror

'Londoners are destroying our seaside town with eyesore newbuild monstrosities'

Residents of a road in Tankerton, near Whitstable in Kent, have been dismayed by the looks of recent new builds thrown up near their homes, until a new one was proposed

Evening Standard

Turning on to the Wes way

As he prepares to release maybe his most Wes Anderson film ever, Wes Anderson meets Richard Godwin to talk becoming a meme, living in Kent and why he hates Brexit

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