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• News round-up: infrastructure assets override, commissioners’ Birmingham report, Medway treasury update - Room 151

  01-04-2025 13:51 via news.google.com
  News round-up: infrastructure assets override, commissioners’ Birmingham report, Medway treasury update  Room 151
  
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• Developer seeks permission to expand number of countryside homes

  08-04-2025 16:30 via kentonline.co.uk
  
  A housing development in a rural part of Kent could expand as a new planning application seeks permission for up to 75 homes.
  
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• Concerns for welfare of missing teen, 14

  08-04-2025 16:30 via kentonline.co.uk
  
  Police are searching for a missing 14-year-old boy who was last seen outside a railway station.
  
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• ‘It started as a joke!’: Kent chocolate company makes 300kg Easter egg

  08-04-2025 15:34 via kentonline.co.uk
  
  A Kent firm has created a 7ft tall Easter egg which weighs the same as five humans, a polar baby and three baby elephants.
  
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• Three schools among first wave getting ‘free nurseries for working parents’

  08-04-2025 14:13 via kentonline.co.uk
  
  Funding has been secured to open new “school-based nurseries” across several towns in a bid to tackle so-called childcare “deserts”.
  
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• Green light for further 353 homes at emerging riverside development

  08-04-2025 11:51 via kentonline.co.uk
  
  The latest phase of a £419million housing regeneration scheme has been given the go-ahead.
  
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• ‘Inspirational’ terminally ill dad wins prestigious award after raising £80k for charity

  07-04-2025 17:40 via kentonline.co.uk
  
  A terminally ill dad-of-two who has set himself the challenge of walking 25 million steps for charity has won a prestigious award.
  
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• ‘Despicable’ robber pushed 92-year-old woman to the ground during handbag heist

  07-04-2025 16:13 via kentonline.co.uk
  
  A robber who injured and knocked an elderly pensioner to the ground after robbing her has been jailed.
  
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• Title joy for Medway - Kent Online

  07-04-2025 11:05 via news.google.com
  Title joy for Medway  Kent Online
  
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• Child rapist from Medway jailed for 17 years - Rayo

  07-04-2025 09:25 via news.google.com
  Child rapist from Medway jailed for 17 years  Rayo
  
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• Medway Area Sunday League round-up (06/04/25) - Kent Online

  07-04-2025 08:59 via news.google.com
  Medway Area Sunday League round-up (06/04/25)  Kent Online
  
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• UPDATE: Girl, 11, missing from Medway as public urged to call 999 if they see her - Kent Live

  07-04-2025 07:14 via news.google.com
  UPDATE: Girl, 11, missing from Medway as public urged to call 999 if they see her  Kent Live
  
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• ‘Public perception of HMOs is negative - but what we’re doing isn’t slum housing’

  07-04-2025 06:00 via kentonline.co.uk
  
  For many, the thought of a HMO next door rings alarm bells but two entrepreneurs are on a mission to change public perception of shared homes.
  
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• ‘I feel like I’m having to beg for support’ – Dad-of-two unable to get financial help after cancer surgery

  07-04-2025 06:00 via kentonline.co.uk
  
  A builder who has been left unable to work following major surgery to remove a tumour says he hasn’t been able to secure any financial help.
  
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• Varenicline: Stop smoking pill set to help Medway residents quit - Kent Online

  07-04-2025 01:05 via news.google.com
  Varenicline: Stop smoking pill set to help Medway residents quit  Kent Online
  
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• Use your lived experience to make a difference - Kent Online

  07-04-2025 01:05 via news.google.com
  Use your lived experience to make a difference  Kent Online
  
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• Missing girl found safe following police appeal

  06-04-2025 22:16 via kentonline.co.uk
  
  Police who appealed for information to help find a missing 11-year-old girl say she has been found safe.
  
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• Police appeal for information in search for missing girl

  06-04-2025 17:22 via kentonline.co.uk
  
  Police are appealing for information to help find an 11-year-old girl who is missing.
  
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• Medway Posts Town Meeting Zoning Warrant Articles - Franklin Observer

  06-04-2025 11:02 via news.google.com
  Medway Posts Town Meeting Zoning Warrant Articles  Franklin Observer
  
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• ‘It’s a minefield of muck’: Why are dog owners hanging bags of poo off trees everywhere?

  06-04-2025 06:00 via kentonline.co.uk
  
  Instead of being binned dog mess is increasingly being bagged and dumped or hung from tree branches in a move many have branded as “selfish”.
  
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• Drunken boyfriend grabbed partner round the throat after party disagreement

  06-04-2025 06:00 via kentonline.co.uk
  
  A drunken man who acted “aggressively” toward his partner at a party, later grabbed her around the throat after she left the event without him.
  
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• Medway Maritime Hospital's neonatal unit recognised with award - BBC

  05-04-2025 15:03 via news.google.com
  Medway Maritime Hospital's neonatal unit recognised with award  BBC
  
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• ‘It would increase the noise’: Ex-cannabis farm could become children’s home

  05-04-2025 15:00 via kentonline.co.uk
  
  A property once discovered to have been growing 1,069 cannabis plants could now get a new lease of life as a “residential care facility”.
  
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• Teen taken to hospital after ‘assault’ at school football match

  04-04-2025 18:02 via kentonline.co.uk
  
  An appeal for witnesses has been made after a 15-year-old boy was injured after a ‘disturbance’ broke out at a football match held at a school.
  
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• Medway Public Schools Hire New Director of Finance and Operations Patrick McIntyre - John Guilfoil Public Relations

  04-04-2025 17:42 via news.google.com
  Medway Public Schools Hire New Director of Finance and Operations Patrick McIntyre  John Guilfoil Public Relations
  
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• Medway Council leaders face tough questions on infrastructure and healthcare at Q&A event - Kent Live

  04-04-2025 16:57 via news.google.com
  Medway Council leaders face tough questions on infrastructure and healthcare at Q&A event  Kent Live
  
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• Medway Community Healthcare still recovering from 'cyber-attack' - BBC

  04-04-2025 16:50 via news.google.com
  Medway Community Healthcare still recovering from 'cyber-attack'  BBC
  
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• Predatory child rapist jailed after ‘appalling’ abuse

  04-04-2025 16:06 via kentonline.co.uk
  
  A paedophile has at last faced justice for “appalling and terrifying” offences he committed against a nine-year-old girl half a century ago.
  
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• Missing man found safe - Kent Online

  04-04-2025 14:26 via news.google.com
  Missing man found safe  Kent Online
  
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• Concerns grow for missing man - Kent Online

  04-04-2025 14:26 via news.google.com
  Concerns grow for missing man  Kent Online
  
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