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Clothing brand in Maidstone helps elderly get dressed without stress
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- Clothing brand in Maidstone helps elderly get dressed without stress
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- 2:41
- Date posted
- 8 years ago
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- A clothing brand near Maidstone's using a unique way of helping the elderly and those with long term health conditions.
The Able Label was started by Katie Ellis after her grandmother was diagnosed with Parkinsons' and started to struggle with zips and buttons.
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- Latest on Thanet MP Craig MacKinlay's trial
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- 2:47
- Date posted
- 8 years ago
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- A court has heard how Conservative party chiefs were determined to disrupt Nigel Farage's Presidential campaign to become MP for Thanet South.
Our Political Editor Paul Francis explained the latest from Southwalk Crown Court.
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- How much does it cost to educate a child?
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- 1:16
- Date posted
- 8 years ago
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- The Institute for Fiscal Studies has found that it costs £73,000 to put a child through education, including here in Kent.
While education spending has been steadily rising, there has also been a growth in population and squeeze on public finances.
But could you have guessed how much it costs to educate a child? We quizzed shoppers in Medway.
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- Stockbury roundabout to be upgraded
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- 2:35
- Date posted
- 8 years ago
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- Plans have been revealed for a £100m upgrade to the notorious Stockbury roundabout near Sittingbourne.
It is hoped that the changes will improve journey times and safety for travellers, with plans set to complete in 2021.
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- Home Secretary Sajid Javid tells KMTV he backs PM Theresa May
- Runtime
- 2:37
- Date posted
- 8 years ago
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- Home Secretary Sajid Javid has told KMTV that he supports Prime Minister Theresa May whilst at a major Conservative conference in Kent.
Hundreds crammed into the Tokyo Tearooms in Canterbury on Saturday whilst speculation continues that the PM will have a vote of no confidence tabled against her.
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- Team Talk - Monday - 12th November
- Runtime
- 27:04
- Date posted
- 8 years ago
- Description
- This week Harry Peet takes at look at the growing sport of Roller Dancing and speaks with a club from Maidstone, plus we'll be speaking with Invictus Games double-medallist Darren Young on his return from the competition in Australia.
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- Team Talk - Monday 5th November
- Runtime
- 27:15
- Date posted
- 8 years ago
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- This week Harry Peet takes at look at the best football action from across Kent, plus we hear from a pair of Sevenoaks rugby players who are taking part in a match on top of Mount Everest.
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- Chris and Co. 3/10/2018
- Runtime
- 27:23
- Date posted
- 8 years ago
- Description
- Hello and welcome to Chris & Co, the show looking at what affects business in Kent, with Nicola Everett, for Chris Price.
Joining us this week is Alyson Howard from MacIntyre Hudson and Howard Cox from Fair Fuel UK
Later on, in the programme we'll be speaking about the Dart Charge increasing and how this will affect businesses in the county as well the news that yet another major company is set to leave one of Kent's retail parks.
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- Team Talk - Monday 29th October
- Runtime
- 27:05
- Date posted
- 8 years ago
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- Joining Nicola Everett this week are Minster table tennis world champion Ross Wilson and Westerham based para-archer Tania Nadarajah.
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- Chris andCo 10/10/2018
- Runtime
- 27:23
- Date posted
- 8 years ago
- Description
- Hello and welcome to Chris & Co, the show looking at what affects business in Kent, with, Nicola Everett, in for Chris Price.
Joining Nicola tonight is Alyson Howard from MacIntyre Hudson and Howard Cox from Fair Fuel UK
Later on in the programme, we'll be speaking about the Dart Charge increasing and how this will affect businesses in the county as well the news that yet another major company is set to leave one of Kent's retail parks.
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- Team Talk - Monday 15th October 2018
- Runtime
- 27:09
- Date posted
- 8 years ago
- Description
- Joining Nicola Everett this week are some of Kent's finest karate kids from South East Karate. We'll be looking at Dover Athletic as Andy Hessenthaler takes to the helm, plus all the highlights and reaction from the weekend's football and hockey from across the county.
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- Chris and Co. 17/10/18
- Runtime
- 27:23
- Date posted
- 8 years ago
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- Hello and welcome to Chris & Co, the show looking at what affects business in Kent, with Chris Price.
Joining Chris is Robin Edwards, South East director of the Country, Land and Business Association, known as the CLA.
Later, we'll talk about mental health in the workplace and the impact of fly-tipping on rural firms.
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- Paul on Politics - 9th of November, 2018
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- 23:13
- Date posted
- 8 years ago
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- Team Talk - Monday 8th October 2018
- Runtime
- 27:08
- Date posted
- 8 years ago
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- Joining Joe Coshan this week is Holcombe defender Glenn Eyers to talk about their perfect start to the season and Rochester based Apex Predators to explain the mechanics of Roller Derby.
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- Chris&Co. 31/10/2018
- Runtime
- 27:12
- Date posted
- 8 years ago
- Description
- Hello and welcome to Chris & Co, the show looking at what affects business in Kent, with Chris Price.
Joining Chris this week are James Beatton, a partner at Tunbridge Wells law firm Cripps, and Mark Coxon, a director at Gravesend-based Caxtons Chartered Surveyors.
Later, we'll be talking about the buying and selling of space for offices and shops, ahead of the launch of the Kent Property Market Report.
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- Chris and Co. 7/11/18
- Runtime
- 27:12
- Date posted
- 8 years ago
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- Hello and welcome to Chris & Co, the show looking at what affects business in Kent, with Chris Price
Joining Chris this week is Josh Wilson-Holliday, a director at housing developer Quinn Estates based in Canterbury.
Later, we'll be asking whether it's realistic for companies to pay the real living wage after it increased by nearly 3% this week.
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- Chris and Co. 14/11/2018
- Runtime
- 27:12
- Date posted
- 8 years ago
- Description
- Hello and welcome to Chris & Co, the show looking at what affects business in Kent, with Chris Price.
Joining Chris this week is Jo James, chief executive of Kent Invicta Chamber of Commerce and Ashford engineering consultancy boss Richard Lavender
Later, we re-examine plans for a six billion pound tunnel linking Kent and Essex as people nearby plead for more time to wade through documents on its impact.
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- Team Talk - Monday 1st October 2018
- Runtime
- 27:08
- Date posted
- 8 years ago
- Description
- On this week's edition of Team Talk Nicola Everett is joined by bodybuilding champion Sarah Cooper and boxing promoter Joe Elfidh to look ahead to Kent's next big show at Mote Park.
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- What does gender fluid mean?
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- 1:16
- Date posted
- 8 years ago
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- This year's Sevenoaks Pantomime's set to feature the first-ever gender fluid dame.
Britain's Got Talent star Danny Beard will star in Dick Whittington at the Stag Theatre later this month.
He'll play a gender fluid character called Spirit of London, but do you know what gender-fluid means? We asked shoppers in Gillingham.
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- Kent Tonight - Friday 16th November 2018
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- 27:09
- Date posted
- 8 years ago
- Description
- Watch Kent Tonight for the latest news, sport, weather and features from KMTV.
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- Tattoo taboo- stigma changing around ink say Kent artists
- Runtime
- 2:34
- Date posted
- 8 years ago
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- It's no longer restricted to pirates and criminals- that's according to Kent's tattoo artists who say that getting body art has become more socially acceptable.
They say they've seen a rise in people from all walks of life facing the needles.
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- Kent MPs say there'll be traffic chaos if roadworks aren't stopped earlier
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- 2:23
- Date posted
- 8 years ago
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- Four Kent MPs say there'll be traffic chaos if roadworks aren't stopped earlier on one of the busiest motorways in the county.
Tom Tugendhat, Helen Whately, Tracey Crouch, and Helen Grant have all written to Highways England to express their anger at the planned closure of the M20 from this evening.
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- Residents in Borough Green slam plans to build 3000 homes on greenbelt land.
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- 2:21
- Date posted
- 8 years ago
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- Residents in Borough Green have slammed plans to build 3000 homes on greenbelt land in the area.
It comes as a consultation into Tonbridge and Malling Council's plans are due to end next week.
Campaigners say the garden city could ruin the environment and make the quiet parish over-populated.
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- Brexit latest and reactions across Kent
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- 7:46
- Date posted
- 8 years ago
- Description
- Prime Minister Theresa May is battling to keep her job and just one Kent MP has publicly said she is up to delivering Brexit.
Several Tory MPs have submitted no confidence letters. There needs to be 48 registered to force a vote. It is not known whether any Kent conservative MPs are part of the situation to remove the Prime Minister.
Mrs May has presented the Brexit plan agreed by her cabinet to parliament after high profile resignations including Brexit Secretary Dominic Raab and Esther McVey.
We will be taking a look at how Brexit has evolved and some reactions across Kent.
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- Tunbridge Wells mum Lucy Weekes tells KMTV about her alcohol battle
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- 2:28
- Date posted
- 8 years ago
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- The mum-of-two speaks candidly about her problems with drinking ahead of alcohol awareness week.
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- More than 20 'Outstanding' Kent schools not inspected for more than 10 years
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- 2:40
- Date posted
- 8 years ago
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- Ofsted is not legally required to inspect Outstanding schools, but many in Kent haven not been inspected since 2008.
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- Do Kent residents back the Brexit plan Theresa May presented?
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- 1:18
- Date posted
- 8 years ago
- Description
- Two ministers have resigned over the EU agreement but what do residents in Kent think?
Should we back the withdrawal agreement Theresa May presented?
Here is what shoppers had to say in Rochester.
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- What will this mean for Kent? - Brexit deal being discussed in Parliament
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- 5:05
- Date posted
- 8 years ago
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- The Prime Minister has just spoken live in front of number 10 after spending hours going through the document with her Cabinet.
Nearly all of Kent's MPs have stayed tight lipped on the rumours on what it may contain.
It's the biggest moment in Brexit since the referendum result in 2016.
Poppy Jeffery was LIVE in Downing Street for us earlier this evening.
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- Would the people of Kent like to see Prince Charles as the next monarch?
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- 1:17
- Date posted
- 8 years ago
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- Royalists across Kent have been celebrating the 70th birthday of Prince Charles.
Born on 14 November 1948, he has been heir to the throne since 1952, when he was only three years old.
But would you like to see Prince Charles as the next monarch or should it skip him as he reaches 70? We asked shoppers in Rochester.
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- Mum calls for hands-free driving to be banned after horror smash
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- 2:38
- Date posted
- 8 years ago
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- A mum of two from Whitstable is calling for stricter sentences for hands-free driving after her car was hit during a horror crash.
Tamara Avery's car went under a lorry and caused life-changing injuries to her and her family.
However, the driver was not fined and given only nine points on his licence.
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- Herne Bay councillor calls for fines to discourage feeding bread to ducks
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- 2:32
- Date posted
- 8 years ago
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- A councillor in Herne Bay has said that fines should be imposed to discourage you from feeding ducks with bread.
He said it could kill waterfowl and attract vermin, such as rats.
Signs were put up in Memorial Park in the town earlier this year but there are still fears that the dangers are being ignored.
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- Prominent international journalists speak at Medway conference
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- 2:08
- Date posted
- 8 years ago
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- Hosted by the Worldwide Association of Women Journalists and Writers, the event focuses on storytelling.
Speakers of the day included prominent women from across the world of news.
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- Glucose monitors to be made available for diabetes sufferers in Kent
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- 2:16
- Date posted
- 8 years ago
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- Thousands of diabetes sufferers in Kent will now be able to better manager their condition.
NHS England has today announced that wearable glucose monitors will be made available to people with type 1 diabetes from April next year.
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- Kent Tonight - Wednesday 14th November 2018
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- 1:18:58
- Date posted
- 8 years ago
- Description
- Watch Kent Tonight for the latest news, sport, weather and features from KMTV.
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- Nan locked on mini bus for more than three hours
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- 2:33
- Date posted
- 8 years ago
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- The family of an 87-year old from the Isle fo Sheppey say she could have died after she was locked on a bus for more than three hours.
Beryl Harris, who has Alzheimer's, was stuck on an Age UK mini bus which was due to drop her home.
However it was instead returned to the centre where the driver locked up and left for the weekend.
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- Simpsons Wine Estate bring the bubbly to this week's Made in Kent
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- 5:23
- Date posted
- 8 years ago
- Description
- In this week's episode of Made in Kent, where we take a look at the county's tasty treats and delicious drinks, we were joined by Simpsons Wine Estate.
They joined us on the sofa to pour a glass of sparkling before their exhibit at this weekend's Wine Garden of England Festival at Rochester Cathedral.
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- Craig Mackinlay trial into alleged election fraud continues
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- 2:21
- Date posted
- 8 years ago
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- Kent MP Craig Mackinlay's election aide Marion Little, has denied she deliberately omitted expenses for hotel accommodation on the party's returns.
South Thanet conservative MP Mackinlay is standing trial into alleged election fraud during the 2015 General Election.
Mr Mackinlay and his two assistants are accused of spending more than the legal limit to see off former Ukip leader Nigel Farage.
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- Robbers imprisoned after attack on travellers' site in Lenham
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- 2:29
- Date posted
- 8 years ago
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- Residents in a Kent village have spoken out after 14 men stormed a nearby travellers site and held people at gunpoint.
The gang have been sentenced to more than 200 years in prison and women and children had to seek refuge from the brutal attack in Lenham.
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- How much time do you spend commuting?
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- 1:13
- Date posted
- 8 years ago
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- Drivers in Kent are facing longer daily commutes according to new research.
A study by the TUC found people's travel to work has increased by five minutes or 18 hours a year over the past decade despite billions being spent on the road and rail network.
But how much time do you spend commuting? We asked people in Medway.
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- Campaigners say lives could be destroyed if Lower Thames Crossing plans go ahead
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- 2:37
- Date posted
- 8 years ago
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- Campaigners say lives could be destroyed if Highways bosses don't extend the consultation on the Lower Thames Crossing.
It comes as 15 thousands people have given feedback to the proposals but officials say they're confident the plans will help boost Kent.
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- Kent Tonight - Tuesday 13th November 2018
- Runtime
- 57:15
- Date posted
- 8 years ago
- Description
- Watch Kent Tonight for the latest news, sport, weather and features from KMTV.
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- Kent's set to receive more than £13 million to help fix the county's roads.
- Runtime
- 2:18
- Date posted
- 8 years ago
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- The Budget the Department for Transport's announced £420 million dedicated to the problem but have now revealed where it will be allocated.
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- Thanet MP Craig MacKinlay's trial into alleged election fraud continues
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- 1:57
- Date posted
- 8 years ago
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- The Conservative MP is accused of breaking spending rules during the 2015 General Election.
Mr Mackinlay and his two assistants are said to have spent more than double the legal limit to see off former Ukip leader Nigel Farage's bid to win the South Thanet seat.
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- Ramsgate port could receive millions of pounds of funding thanks to Brexit.
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- 5:15
- Date posted
- 8 years ago
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- The Government plans to plough nearly 200 million pounds into the port and others as the UK prepares to leave the EU.
It's hoped new facilities could boost cross-Channel trade with Belgium and minimise any lengthy checks at Calais.
Cllr Harry Rayner from Kent County Council joined us in the studio
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- Kent Tonight - Monday 12th November 2018
- Runtime
- 57:03
- Date posted
- 8 years ago
- Description
- Watch Kent Tonight for the latest news, sport, weather and features from KMTV.
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- Who should get priority parking ?
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- 1:04
- Date posted
- 8 years ago
- Description
- A national motoring campaigner has sparked a social media storm by calling for parent and child parking spaces to be axed.
But, what do you think ? Who should get priority parking? We asked shoppers in Chatham to find out.
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- Thousands turned out across Kent to mark the centenary of Armistice day.
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- 2:42
- Date posted
- 8 years ago
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- Sunday marked exactly one hundred years since the end of the First World War with memorial events taking place around the county to commemorate those who lost their lives in the conflict.
Tonbridge and Malling MP Tom Tugendhat was in India to pay tribute to the millions from the Commonwealth who fought.
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- Brother of Maidstone car crash victim speaks out
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- 2:35
- Date posted
- 8 years ago
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- The brother of a man who died after being hit by a car in Maidstone says he wishes he never persuaded him to move to England.
Police have launched an investigation into Cristian Dumitru's death following the crash in the early hours of Saturday morning.
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- RAMSGATE PORT
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- 2:31
- Date posted
- 8 years ago
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- Ramsgate port could receive millions of pounds of funding thanks to Brexit
The Government plans to plough nearly 200 million pounds into the port and others as the UK prepares to leave the EU.
It's hoped new facilities could boost cross-Channel trade with Belgium and minimise any lengthy checks at Calais.
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- Team Talk - Monday 24th September 2018
- Runtime
- 27:09
- Date posted
- 8 years ago
- Description
- Joining Harry Peet this week is Darren Young, football agent and Invictus Games hopeful. We also have a roundup of historic day for Kent cricket as they get promoted to the first division, as well as the highlights and reaction from football sites.
