The multi-million-pound revamp of a town’s leisure centre has begun. Work to upgrade the Sheppey Leisure Complex and Healthy ...

A bomb had to be detonated on a seafront after it was discovered in a garden shed. People watched as officers set off the ...

As Britain marks the 85th anniversary of Dunkirk, one Kent town is calling for recognition of the role it played in rescuing ...

Blue Town Heritage Centre, set for wedding tea Then, of course, there is Uwe Johnson, this major East German writer who amazed everybody by moving to Sheerness-on-Sea from West Berlin in 1974, ...

"I had a friend who used to live there and she said a section of their museum is dedicated to Sheerness and the people who travelled from here. Deadmans Island is near Queenborough, off the coast ...

Show more "The Island" is what everyone calls it ... thousands of craft who plough the strait heading for the port of Sheerness, laden with bananas and cars. At the far end of the island from ...

Mr Ingleton said the Sheerness dockyard was so important that the whole island became a restricted area, with residents given identity cards known as "the Sheppey Passport". "It looked like a ...

"I'm Sheerness born and bred, and I've never seen anything untoward in this town," said Alice, who works at the local funeral directors. "I would never move off the island because it's still ...

That's what we find here," say Sydney and Marion. Kaddy looks at what is different about the island and visits the 'capital' Sheerness - a former Naval dockyard. In the area called Blue Town ...

KCC said it will be able to offer more places thanks to an agreement with a school on the island, and any pupil ... to get to Sheerness train station, to get a train to Faversham, then a walk ...