Margate lifeboat Photo: RNLI Margate RNLI along with lifeboats from Ramsgate and Sheerness were launched to assist a disabled yacht off the north Kent coast. Around 11am on Wednesday 8…
TV star and keen open water swimmer Louise Minchin – Photo: RNLI – Former BBC Breakfast presenter and keen open water swimmer Louise Minchin has teamed up with the Royal…
Kent Fire and Rescue Service and the Coastguard were called to Herne Bay Pier this morning, 24 February) to rescue a man stuck in mud after walking along the coast…
A smoke alarm sounding alerted residents to a fire at their home in Canterbury in the early hours of Sunday, after a tumble dryer has caught alight overnight. Two fire…
Kent Fire and Rescue Service Animal Rescue Unit was called to help rescue a dog that had got stuck in a water pipe in a dyke near Kemsdale Road between…
A charitable organisation dedicated to assisting the emergency services in the search for and rescue of vulnerable missing people has been handed a donation from Kent Police. Kent Search and…
WARNING: Contains footage and detail which may be distressing. The Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI) has released new footage and a crew testimony to give a first-hand insight into what…
A photo taken in 1959 of the 4 in the dinghy awaiting rescue Allen and Doreen Saunders visited Dungeness lifeboat station on Friday 26 August on their wedding anniversary to…
Margate RNLI’s D class inshore lifeboat ‘Alfred Alexander Staden’ (RNLI Margate) Margate lifeboat station’s busy July has continued into August after the volunteer crew responded to two incidents on Tuesday…
Constituency matters… a weekly column by the Member of Parliament for Folkestone and Hythe, Damian Collins 14 December 2022 Today we received the tragic news of deaths in the Channel…
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