Against most people’s expectations, an application to build 52 homes over an orchard at Ivy Farm in East Malling was soundly refused at a meeting of the Tonbridge and Malling full council.

New parking restrictions that threatened the future of a treasured farmers’ market will be eased following a council U-turn.

1995: British-born Nicholas Ingram is executed in the electric chair at Jackson State Prison, Atlanta, Georgia, for the 1983 murder of a man during a robbery. On the same day, Oliver McCall defeats ...