Folkestone, England News

Anyone who watched the latest episode of Mary Queen of the High Street will have been mildly amused to see the retail diva encounter the good burghers of Margate.

The Great Gold Robbery took place on the night of 15 May 1855, when three London firms sent a box of gold bars and coins each from London Bridge station for Paris via the South Eastern Railway .

A man who lured a suspected thief into a trap that saw him battered close to death has been jailed.

Airshow project manager Yvonne Holder said "a terrific amount of work" had gone into planning the free event and it was cancelled "with immense regret". The air show was due to have been held on the Leas and the seafront on Saturday 8 June, with associated events the day before and the day after.

An intriguing hoard of treasures culled from a life spent in the arts - back home to Norwich.

Just 38. That's how little it can cost to take your car, your family - in fact, up to nine passengers, to be precise - and as much luggage as your boot will hold, to France and back by ferry this spring or early summer.

Emergency serives were scrambled to a rural road this afternoon , after a multi-car pileup left six people injured.

The brother of Jimi Hendrix Experience bassist Noel Redding will open an art show dedicated to the late rock star.

Lord of the Rings star Orlando Bloom has backed East Kent for the UK City of Culture title.

The furious 23-year-old tracked the mother of his two children to her new home in Albert Road, Folkestone through friends on the social networking site Facebook.

Award-winning hairdresser Lisa Candy wept and shouted "what about my son?" as she was jailed for her part in "appalling and disgraceful violence." Candy, 22, of Carter Close, Hawkinge, and her then partner Joshua Prett, 22, of Coolinge Lane, Folkestone, were captured by CCTV in a prolonged onslaught, climaxing in them viciously kicking an ... (more)

Bar manager Neil De Klerk's drunken onslaught against two bystanders led to him losing his job and ending up in prison.

A sozzled shop owner who groped a teenage girl while grieving over the death of his wife has been spared a jail sentence.

For, instead of helping out a pal on the night of his 33rd birthday, Wayne Sart ended up with a fractured skull and bleed on the brain.

A 24-year-old man is being questioned by Kent Police over the stabbing of a 20-year-old man in Folkestone.