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Bank Holiday getaway chaos begins: Airports brace for their ‘busiest day’ since Covid while families hoping to beat the morning rush get stuck in long queues at Dover and on the M25 as more than 14 million journeys expected this weekendMotorists are be…
The average price of a home dropped in various parts of Kent between April and May this year (2023) – according to the latest figures from the Land Registry. The steepest fall happened in Canterbury, which saw the fourth biggest reduction out of all re…
Sign up to Simon Calder’s free travel email for expert advice and money-saving discountsGet Simon Calder’s Travel emailThe first national rail strikes since the 1980s began in June 2022. The RMT and Aslef trades unions are involved in parallel disputes…
Kent will see no trains running at all on one date next month as an additional day of strikes has now been announced. The ASLEF union has confirmed that it will host industrial action on Friday, September 1.
This follows the recent announcement that RM…
A restaurant in Kent will be holding an outdoor soul music evening this summer to celebrate LGBTQIA+ talent. Titled, Soul Sessions, the live music set will take place between 6.30pm and 8:30pm on August 24 at wagamama in Ashford.[1]
Soul Sessions will …
Strikes have been announced once again on the South Western Railway, as RMT announce further industrial action for the last weekend of August, and first weekend of September. Surrey has seen reduced services recently, with some stations being crossed o…
Sign up to Simon Calder’s free travel email for expert advice and money-saving discountsGet Simon Calder’s Travel emailFourteen months on from the start of the first national rail strikes since the 1980s, the disputes between the main rail unions and t…
The most recent list of road closures includes roads looked after by National Highways only.
Some will cause minor delays of around 10 minutes or less, while others may add an extra 30 minutes to journeys.
• A5, until 6am on Saturday, August 12, mode…
Ten years ago, if you walked along a certain stretch of sandy beach at Ramsgate[1], you could have been forgiven for thinking the town was at its lowest ebb.
For all the growing interest in cafes and restaurants around its pretty nearby harbour and mar…
The new Thanet[1] Parkway railway station opened to passengers on Monday (July 31). It is the county’s first railway station to be built in eight years.
As a result, passengers are now able to travel from Thanet Parkway to London in 70 minutes[2], Netw…