Kent Equality Cohesion Council (KECC) Chief Executive Gurvinder Sandher is the recipient of the prestigious Kent County Council (KCC) Ken…

Mr Sandher received the award for outstanding work to promote positive community relations from KCC Chairman Lesley Game at the full County Council meeting on Thursday (10 March 2022). Speaking in the Chamber at County Hall, Kent County Council’s Cabinet Member for Community and Regulatory Services Mike Hill paid tribute. Mike Hill said: “Gurvinder has […]
National award for Virtual School Kent

KCC’s Virtual School Kent (VSK) has become the first virtual school to be awarded the National Nurturing Virtual School Programme Award. The NurtureUK award follows the school’s completion of the National Nurturing Schools Programme and recognises the high-quality whole-school nurturing approach. VSK provides coordinated educational services to support both children and professionals, promoting the progress […]
Members of the Volunteer Police Cadets have been assisting a community initiative in Marden linked to the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee

The Maidstone based cadets have been giving up their free time in order to contribute to The Queen’s Green Canopy – a nationwide project to create a network of individual trees, copses and whole woodlands. On Saturday 5 March, the teenagers planted a mix of more than 100 Rowan, Cherry, Hawthorn and Crab Apple trees […]
Members of the Volunteer Police Cadets have been assisting a community initiative in Marden linked to the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee – (ID …

The Maidstone based cadets have been giving up their free time in order to contribute to The Queen’s Green Canopy – a nationwide project to create a network of individual trees, copses and whole woodlands. On Saturday 5 March, the teenagers planted a mix of more than 100 Rowan, Cherry, Hawthorn and Crab Apple trees […]
Members of the Volunteer Police Cadets have been assisting a community initiative in Marden linked to the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee

The Maidstone based cadets have been giving up their free time in order to contribute to The Queen’s Green Canopy – a nationwide project to create a network of individual trees, copses and whole woodlands. On Saturday 5 March, the teenagers planted a mix of more than 100 Rowan, Cherry, Hawthorn and Crab Apple trees […]
Two teenage boys have received trauma care by ambulance staff after sustaining potentially life-threatening injuries in Birmingham City Centre

The West Midlands ambulance service received 999 calls reporting a stabbing on Corporation Street in Birmingham at 2.36pm today (Thursday). A large ambulance presence was responded to the scene and included two ambulances, three paramedic officers, HART paramedics, the Midlands Air Ambulance from Cosford with a doctor and paramedic on board, a critical care paramedic […]
Two teenage boys have received trauma care by ambulance staff after sustaining potentially life-threatening injuries in Birmingham City C…

The West Midlands ambulance service received 999 calls reporting a stabbing on Corporation Street in Birmingham at 2.36pm today (Thursday). A large ambulance presence was responded to the scene and included two ambulances, three paramedic officers, HART paramedics, the Midlands Air Ambulance from Cosford with a doctor and paramedic on board, a critical care paramedic […]
The relentless pursuit of dangerous offenders has seen a single Kent Police team jail criminals for more than 1,300 years

Since its launch in February 2019, the Chief Constable’s Crime Squad has targeted nominals who are causing the highest levels of harm in their communities. Armed robbers, ram-raiders, burglary conspirators and car thieves are among those they have brought to justice. Over the past year, the team has locked up criminals for 405 years, carried […]
A cocaine dealer has been jailed after he was caught in the act supplying users from a car in Cranbrook

Only a small quantity of drugs were initially discovered when police searched Charlie Matthew’s vehicle before evidence from his mobile phone revealed the true extent of his criminal network. Officers from the Tunbridge Wells Community Policing Team arrested the 26-year-old on 21 October 2020, after he had been seen at the wheel of a suspicious […]
Police are appealing for witnesses following the attempted robbery of a pensioner as she was walking home in Ansdell, near Lytham

Officers were called around 10.15am on March 7th to a report of an incident where a man attempted to steal a 75-year-old woman’s handbag. The woman was walking home along Pembroke Road after getting off the number 17 bus when she was approached from behind and pushed to the ground suffering facial injuries as a […]