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

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

"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 ...

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

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

A lost sailor has had to be rescued after running out of fuel circling a small island when he thought he was sailing around the UK coast. The Sheerness lifeboat and the Thames Coastguard assisted the ...

The Vestas plan would have created about 1,600 jobs on the island. Peel Ports Medway controls the Port of Sheerness and Chatham Docks. Gary Parkinson, managing director, said: "The Vestas decision ...

"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 ...

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 ...