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The tides at 2am and 2.30pm tomorrow (Thursday 23 February) will be higher than the predicted astronomical tides.

A Faversham man who transported scrap metal without being able to produce any supporting documents showing he was licensed to do so has pleaded guilty to the offence and been fined a total of £1,390.

The Nailbourne river, which normally lies dormant unless there is wet weather in the winter, has started to flow and has reached Barham.

Drivers who leave their engines running while dropping off their children or picking them up from school are set to be targeted.

Complaints about advertising A-boards in shopping areas causing difficulties for visually impaired people, wheelchair users and parents with pushchairs continue to come into us.

More than 30 shops across the district are set to be targeted in a crackdown on overbearing and garish shopfronts that are not sympathetic to local heritage and history and have been altered illegally.

The Lord Mayor of Canterbury, Cllr Anne Dekker, was joined by the Dean of Canterbury, the Very Rev’d Dr David Monteith, and Rabbi Cohen, to mark Holocaust Memorial Day today (Friday 27 January) by planting a silver birch tree in the Peace Garden in the Dane John Gardens.

Work has started on the district’s newest Changing Places facility, which is being installed at Herons Leisure Centre in Herne Bay.

Three local residents who do amazing work in the community to help others have been presented with Lord Mayor’s Awards.

An operation cracking down on unlicensed waste carriers and scrap collectors doing business within the Canterbury district resulted in two fines being issued to a trader.