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Secret Drinker gets company with launch of In the Mix column reviewing Kent cocktail lounges and wine bars
After years of travelling the length and breadth of Kent looking for the perfect pub, KentOnline’s Secret Drinker is getting some company. Starting tomorrow, our undercover female reporter will be ...
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Ramsgate-based Petticoat Lane Emporium reveals hopes of taking over former Wilko in Folkestone
A huge indoor market boasting more than 250 traders could be set to take over a former Wilko building within months. Petticoat Lane Emporium, Kent’s biggest indoor market in Ramsgate, hopes to open a ...
Secret Drinker reviews the Artillery Arms pub in Ramsgate
Price: A pint of Fell Brewery’s Tinderbox was £4.50, incidentally the same price as a Kronenbourg, but the Tonbridge bitter was only £3.90. Surely there’s nowhere cheaper in town other than Spoons. ** ...
Syrian who was blinded during war graduates from top UK university
A Syrian footballer who lost his eyesight while fleeing his war-torn home country has graduated from university in the UK. In 2014, Maher Fattouh, then aged 21, was caught in a bomb explosion as he ...
Mother due to be sentenced over the deaths of her four sons in fire
A woman whose four young boys died in a fire after she left them home alone to go to Sainsbury’s will be sentenced later. Deveca Rose had left her two sets of twins in the locked terraced house when ...
What the papers say – January 24
The sentencing of Southport killer Axel Rudakubana dominates Friday’s front pages. The Guardian, The Independent and Metro all lead on the 18-year-old being put behind bars for at least 52 years after ...
Public urged to stay at home as Ireland braces for arrival of Storm Eowyn
Both Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland are under the top-level red weather warnings for wind from early on Friday.
Storm Eowyn to hit UK with 100mph winds as schools shut and travel disrupted
Rail services and flights have been axed, with rare red weather warnings issued for Scotland and Northern Ireland as Storm Eowyn is likely to damage buildings, uproot trees and cause power cuts, the ...
Southport child killer’s 52-year sentence sparks calls for law change
Alice da Silva Aguiar, nine, Bebe King, six, and Elsie Dot Stancombe, seven, died in the attack in July last year.
MoD strikes £9bn deal with Rolls Royce to help power UK nuclear submarines
A deal worth around £9 billion has been struck with Rolls-Royce by the Government to help power Britain’s nuclear submarines. The eight-year contract, dubbed Unity, is aimed at safeguarding 4,000 jobs ...
Southport victim’s family thank Starmer for meeting and welcome public inquiry
The family of Elsie Dot Stancombe described the ‘compassion and sincerity’ they have received since the July 29 attack.
M20 reopens after police incident near Junction 9 for Ashford after ‘person falls from bridge’
A stretch of the M20 has reopened after several hours following reports someone fell from a bridge and was struck by a ...