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Kent's council reorganisation has entered its legal action era
Kent County Council is taking the government to court over plans to abolish it, even as ministers reconsider whether those plans should go ahead at all
Ed Jennings
Local news bore. Editor Kent Current and Local Authority.
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The £15.5m cost of clearing up Kent's illegal rubbish
Plus Medway’s police complaint, a £13.7m roundabout overspend, cockroaches at Bluewater and a £5m castle
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Kent and France want to become a geopark
A shared geological history, plus £700,000 spent on a cancelled waste facility and Kent’s new town that still doesn’t exist
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How not to build 660 homes
Plus the far right return to Dover, Operation Brock’s £1.4m bill, ghost plates at Dartford, and another Kent water failure
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Can the Lower Thames Crossing really be Britain’s greenest road?
Plus the beavers that waited 23 years for freedom
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Southern Water keeps being fined for polluting Kent. Has anything actually changed?
Plus 122 councillor complaints, a bleak housing picture, recycled clothing in potholes and more from across Kent
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Kent's bison finally get their bridges
Plus an inaccessible rail footbridge, falling university rankings, Danny Dyer on polluted water and whales in the Thames
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Kent’s SEND system is getting better, but not for everyone
Inspectors find real progress after years of failure, plus a Reform councillor’s far-right Facebook link, and what KentLive’s closure means for local news
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Kent is becoming warehouse country
Kent’s warehouse boom brings jobs and investment, but is changing what parts of the county are for
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What can you do with the Freedom of Kent?
Plus another Kent school without reliable water, trouble inside Restore, facial recognition in Chatham and the fallout from Dover
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Kent had a plan for its councils. It lasted 47 days
After 18 months of work, staff recruitment and millions in planned spending, ministers have put the county’s future back under review
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Inside the Kent you rarely get to see
Ten days of free openings reveal grand houses, underground defences, private rooms and some of the county’s less predictable historic places