News May - June 2025
01 May 2025 - Morrisons shop worker threatened
Balaclava clad robbers hold up Morrisons in New Ash Green on 24 April.
Gravesend & Dartford Messenger
08 May 2025 - Reform stun Tories to take over KCC with sweeping election win
Result of KCC Election: Reform (57); Libdem (12); Cons (5); Green (5); Lab (2)
Gravesend & Dartford Messenger
08 May 2025 - Castle Hill and Valley Road closures
2 day closure in May announced for BT Openreach works
Gravesend & Dartford Messenger
08 May 2025 - Liverpool men due in court after Morrisons raid
As a result of enquiries, Police in Merseyside arrest 2 men aged 34 and 44.
Gravesend & Dartford Messenger
15 May 2025 - Greatly missed' pub could return
New owners Alchemy Estates (Holywell) Limited have submitted an application to build a pub that looks like a house, with 6 bed and breakfast flats above. Cautious welcome from local politicians
Gravesend & Dartford Messenger
15 May 2025 - The cheapest and most expensive areas in Kent to buy a house
Hartley and Hodsoll Street ward the 5th most expensive to buy a house in Kent with a median price of £600,000. Most expensive is Sevenoaks West and Chevening at £1 million.
Gravesend & Dartford Messenger
15 May 2025 - Driver on wrong side of road after fleeing from cops
Woman from West Shaw, Longfield, fined £280 plus costs and had 12 points added to licence for several motoring offences.
Gravesend & Dartford Messenger
31 May 2025 - Hartley Crime Report
Theft - 1 (Gorse Way); burglary of outbuilding - 1 (Church Road); Criminal Damage - 1 (Church Road)
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31 May 2025 - Longfield Crime Report: September and October
Theft - 1 (Main Road); Criminal Damage - 1 (Main Road)
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12 June 2025 - Former teaching assistant sent nude photos to teenager
Woman from Porchester Close referred to Woolwich Crown Court for sentencing after admitting offence. She had been given a suspended sentence last year for a road rage incident.
Gravesend & Dartford Messenger
16 June 2025 - Main Road, outside Longfield Academy, closed by South East Water for repairs
Two pipes repaired by South East Water on 14 June
Dartford Messenger
17 June 2025 - Fawkham residents angry at Sevenoaks District Council’s plans to sell treasured green space at Small Grains
Sevenoaks Council propose to dispose of a number of plots of land which they own which were not transferred to the West Kent Housing Association when it was set up in the late 1980s (according to the agenda they think it will generate capital receipts and reduce running costs. In Hartley they propose to dispose by auction land at back of 2-12 Northfield, land at the junction of Bramblefield and Hawthorns, land north of Woodland Avenue Park and land between 8 and 10 Porchester Close. Article relates to amenity land by Small Grains in Fawkham Green which they propose to sell for social housing if possible, or auction if not. A quarter of the residents of Fawkham have objected and the paper interviews a number of those opposed. Fawkham Parish Council have offered to take the site for amenity land. For their part the Council point out that Sevenoaks has the poorest provision of affordable homes in the county.
Sevenoaks Messenger
26 June 2025 - Biker dies after crash with car in Main Road, Longfield, near Dartford
Accident occurred about 5am at junction of Main Road and Station Road. Later report on 8/7/25 says the victim was a grandfather in his 60s.
Dartford Messenger
30 June 2025 - Longfield Crime Report: June
Criminal Damage - 1 (Station Road); Theft - 2 (Fawkham Road, Gorsewood Road)
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30 June 2025 - Hartley Crime Report: June
Attempted Break in - 1 (Church Road); Attempted Car Theft - 1 (Church Road)
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