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People struggling with the cost of living crisis can get crucial support and advice, as well as information about wellbeing services, at an event in Sittingbourne later this month.

14 more businesses signed up to a scheme to tackle crime across Swale during this month’s Business Crime Reduction Partnership (BCRP) Awareness Week.

Someone could win up to £25,000, and give local good causes a boost, as the new Swale Community Lottery launches this week.

Shortly after the General Election when Helen Whately became the new MP for Teynham, she was alerted to sewage flooding in Frognal Lane and Frognal Gardens which was also reported in the press.

Help clean up Swale’s beaches, woodlands and green spaces at Great British Spring Clean events across the borough.

Sophie Spillett is thrilled to announce a double triumph at the prestigious Kent Women in Business Awards, held on Friday, 8 March 2025 at The Ashford International Hotel

Illegal fly-tippers have been prevented from dumping waste near a popular park, thanks to Swale Borough Council and Kent Highways.

Kent Wildlife Trust has been left "shocked and deeply concerned" after learning that the developer has wrongly cited the Trust as a stakeholder in the proposed 8,400-home Highsted Park development in Sittingbourne and are calling for the record to be set straight.

Two new electric waste vehicles have joined the Swale Borough Council fleet, boosting street cleaning and fly-tipping removal efforts while significantly reducing carbon emissions.

The Five Parishes Group is studying closely the comments shared by both statutory consultees and individuals as the Inquiry gets underway.