Keith Taylor, the Green MEP for Kent and the South East, has called on Thanet Council to raise the fee for boats using Ramsgate port to export live animals.

HOLIDAYMAKER Danie Coetzer says his wife always tells him Google is his best friend and that he’s a techno-freak. Now two boogie boarders — a man in his twenties and a teenager who were swept out to sea off Ramsgate’s beach this week — can thank him for being such a google-geek.

Dog owners are warned to be on their guard after reports that a bogus warden has been giving £50 on-the-spot fines to dog owners in Ramsgate.

Entrusting your holiday plans to a politician runs the risk of a family day out ruined by discussions about the deficit on the dodgems or tax cuts in the tea-room.

X-FACTOR winner Altiyan Childs used a Taser for security after he was attacked in Hobart, a court has been told.

A train driver who took 134 sick days in 22 months has won a £28,000 payout for unfair dismissal. Darrin Thomas, from Ramsgate, Kent, was sacked by rail operators Southeastern after taking the huge number of sick days – more than one every four days – because of his asthma.

The best known story about Joseph Mallord William Turner is that he had himself lashed to a mast, brush in hand, to capture the full force of a storm at sea. Like many art anecdotes, this one probably isn't true: other, lesser painters are known to have had themselves tied to bits of shipping while they worked, and one of their stories has barnacled itself to JMW. He was, after all, Britain's ...

Marty Haynes bristles when his Hamilton County District 3 opponents suggest he's pro-annexation.

X-FACTOR winner Altiyan Childs' security officers allegedly purchased a Taser to protect him from fans, court told.

Campaigners in an area blighted by eastern European squatters have accused town hall leaders of being 'in denial' about the problem.