Screen grab of (left to right) Chris Train, chairman, South East Water, David Hinton, chief executive, South East Water, and Caroline Sheridan, non-executive director, South East Water, appearing before the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee, for a hearing on reforming the water sector (House of Commons/UK Parliament/PA) PA Wire Source link
A dad walking through Mote Park in Maidstone, Kent, spotted a rare albino squirrel on 23 March after initially mistaking it for a moving plastic bag. Oliver Reynolds, 45, noticed the white squirrel’s red eyes as he moved closer and captured a photo. Albino squirrels occur at a rate of about one in 100,000 and are among the few albino mammals able to survive in the wild due to their cone‑rich retinas. Reynolds said he was shocked by the sighting and shared the moment with his family. Source link
Don’t Miss Media Group home pages, and founder Georgina Wilson-Powell (top right). A local newsletter business covering UK coastal towns is on track to hit £85,000 in annual revenue from its first location in under two years. Don’t Miss Margate was launched in May 2024 by former magazine editor Georgina Wilson-Powell, who expects the business to support a full market-rate salary within the next year. The newsletter launched under the Don’t Miss Media brand, later renamed Don’t Miss Media Group (DMMG) as it expanded to Ramsgate in September 2025. A third edition is set to launch in Broadstairs in April, with plans to scale further across the coast. Wilson-Powell, who has spent 20 years in journalism, previously held editorial roles at Time Out, BBC Good Food and Morrisons magazine. She also founded sustainable living magazine Pebble, which was sold after growth stalled during the pandemic. The idea for the newsletter came after she spotted a gap in the market, with “people missing events, not knowing what’s on” and relying on Instagram. “We’ve lost that kind …
As of 12.30pm on Monday, 20 cases of meningitis had been confirmed, with a further three under investigation. Source link
There is something almost theatrical about the opening of Hunt the Villain by Rina Kent — a summer camp deep in the Adirondack Mountains, populated not by teenagers with canoe paddles, but by the heirs of rival Russian-American mafia organizations, stripped of phones and personal guards, forced into uneasy cohabitation. The premise is dramatic almost to the point of absurdity. And then Yulian Dimitriev walks in — bloodied, grinning, having just detonated a device for the sheer entertainment of it — and the novel announces itself as something far more complicated than its setup suggests. Hunt the Villain by Rina Kent is the second entry in Rina Kent’s Villain series. Where Kiss the Villain introduced Nikolai’s story and laid the groundwork for this world, this book narrows its focus to two characters who have been circling each other — and readers’ curiosity — since the series began. The forthcoming Crave the Villain will close out the trilogy, but for now, this is the installment that carries the heaviest emotional weight of the three. Its predecessor …
The number of cases of meningitis linked to an outbreak in Kent has dropped as thousands of young people in the area are vaccinated against the disease. Confirmed cases have fallen from 23 to 20, the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) said in an update on Sunday morning, after they were downgraded following further testing. Meanwhile, suspected cases under investigation have also fallen from 11 to nine, meaning the total number of cases is 29, down from 34 on Saturday. Two people, 18 year old Juliette Kenny, and an unnamed University of Kent student, have died following the start of the outbreak. And now a doctor has explained whether a national lockdown in an effort to halt the spread of the outbreak is on the cards. Dr Ahmed, who has almost half a million followers on TikTok, where he describes himself as “healthcare Gordon Ramsay”, said he recognised people are concerned about the outbreak, but issued a note of caution. “Ok, untwist your panties, put them back in the drawer, and listen,” he said. “Yes, …
Recently-resigned director of the U.S. National Counterterrorism Center Joe Kent told antiwar.com editor Scott Horton that a narrow window for de-escalation still exists, but only if Donald Trump is willing to confront what Kent repeatedly described as the core constraint on U.S. strategy: Israel. “I think he’s got to address the Israeli issue first and foremost… and demand and force them to stop going on the offense.” Kent addressed Trump’s recent public comments urging restraint, specifically that Israel halt strikes on energy infrastructure, but warned that rhetorical pressure alone would prove ineffective. According to Kent, past behavior suggests compliance would be temporary at best. “If you tell them that they need to stop… they might back off for a week or so, but they’re not going to listen to you.” pic.twitter.com/BEeBTR6zs3 — ZeroHedge Debates (@zerohedgeDebate) March 20, 2026 **Update from today right on cue… Step 1 in deescalation must be restraining the Israelis, otherwise all efforts to negotiate will follow this pattern: POTUS publicly announces deescalation. Israel takes major strikes to destroy the negotiations & …
After 13 U.S. troops were killed during the opening weeks of the Iran war, Joe Kent had seen enough. It was time, he said, to stand on principle and resign his position as director of the National Counterterrorism Center, knowing it was likely that some of President Donald Trump’s other advisers would turn on him. Source link
The number of meningitis cases following the outbreak in Kent has risen to 34, the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) has said. The total has risen from 29 on Thursday. It includes two – a 21-year-old student at the University of Kent and a sixth form pupil at Queen Elizabeth’s Grammar School in Faversham – who died from the virus in Kent last weekend. The local demand among university students for meningitis vaccines has been so high that some were turned away on Friday. Read more: The symptoms, treatments and if you need the vaccine On Saturday, more than 500 people joined a queue this morning at a clinic on the University of Kent campus. Image: Students queuing to receive vaccines and antibiotics at the University of Kent campus in Canterbury on Saturday. Pics: PA The UKHSA said that as of Saturday morning, 23 laboratory cases of meningitis were confirmed and 11 cases “remain under investigation”. NHS Kent and Medway said that 7,060 vaccines had been administered, and 11,662 antibiotics had been handed out, as …
Joe Kent, the former director of the National Counterterrorism Center (NCC), said an FBI probe investigating him for leaking classified information is a mechanism to “steal a narrative” to cover the Trump administration’s true intentions for entering war with Iran. “If you’ve been in MAGA circles for this long, you kind of understand what this… Source link
