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KCC’s finance and payroll overhaul heads for £38m
Another £7.5m is needed, with payroll still in testing and the system’s future undecided
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Kent’s grammar school system has a £7.2m maths problem
Plus a council stretching from Folkestone to Sheppey, six-hour border queues, Southern Water bosses facing trial and a far-right damp squib in Dover
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KCC didn't approve a quarry, but it did move one step closer
An argument over wording is obscuring what the council's close decision actually changes
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The anthem, the loophole and the American subtitles
Plus missing KCC documents reappear, another Tunbridge Wells water failure, a £7m sewage fine and a fight over ancient woodland near Maidstone
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Four new councils and a lot of unanswered questions
Four authorities, fourteen councils to unwind, and less than two years to build a new system of local government
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Taking apart Kent’s most famous wreck
For 82 years, Kent has mostly dealt with the SS Richard Montgomery by leaving it alone. Now, the masts are coming down.
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How a Kent councillor briefly tried to save Clacton
Plus Kent waits on local government reform, Operation Brock returns, fire cover struggles and a very broken walking app
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The Reform litter pick that edited reality
A routine Facebook post becomes a story about AI in political imagery and whether photographs can still be trusted
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Kent keeps saying yes to homes. So where are they?
Plus a quarry row near Maidstone, Dover border fears, the Goodyear blimp, influencers in a lavender field, and lots more
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The data centre that skipped Dartford
How a contested area of land became part of Britain’s AI infrastructure argument
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Kent found almost £100m of savings. It still overspent by £23m.
Adult social care keeps driving the deficit, as Kent weighs new homes, water restrictions and fire cover
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The road that fell off the map
Three years after Galley Hill collapsed, north Kent may finally have a route back