Chatham started the new year with a derby win at Isthmian Premier leaders Folkestone that ended the hosts’ 12-match winning ...

Cars hoping to cross the Eurotunnel caused traffic jams on the approach to the Folkestone terminal. After previously warning ...

For those who like to brush off the cobwebs on Boxing Day, a long-running cold-water dip is returning to the Kent coast.

More than 120 artists are set to perform at a month-long music festival in Folkestone. Music in May is back for a second year and will see 150 different gigs take place in various venues across the ...

Along The Leas — the impressive swathe of clifftop green space running above the seafront — there is all the evidence that this was once a fashionable seaside resort. And in the centre of town the ...

Firefighters were called to a blaze that had spread to a shed and fence. Four fire engines attended, and crews wearing ...

Lidl is in the “final stages” of preparing an official planning application to relocate one of its town centre stores. Bosses ...

This seaside town was dying the same quiet death as so many cast-off Victorian holiday resorts until billionaire Roger De Haan, whose father founded the Saga empire, decided to invest millions in ...

During lockdown, many of us made the pilgrimage back to our family homes – and rediscovered them through fresh eyes. Part guide, part love letter, “Home Towns” is a series in which we celebrate where ...

Creative Folkestone Triennial 2021, The Plot, is a free exhibition that opened to the public in July and runs until 2 November, with 23 major new public artworks across the town by 25 artists. With ...

Heaven is a place where nothing ever happens. It’s a Talking Heads lyric, and also the wording on an outsized, illuminated-text artwork by Nathan Coley, towering over pedestrians on Folkestone’s ...

The Author in 1940 complete with gas mask and tin hat My life in Folkestone during World War Two (as seen through the eyes of a young child ) When the war started I was two and a half and when it ...