MARKS & Spencer is planning to make a comeback in Folkestone, 20 years after it quit the town. The retail chain’s previous branch had traded in the town for 94 years before it was taken over by Wilko in 2006. It has since become Kent’s largest...
FOLKESTONE’S popular Wetherspoon pub is set to re-open its doors this week following a massive £550,000 refurbishment project that has created 15 new local jobs. The Samuel Peto, in Rendezvous Street, will officially welcome back...
A SHAMELESS rogue builder from Sandwich who conned local families out of thousands of pounds, and tried to escape justice by falsely claiming he had cancer, has been jailed. Michael Rylands, 44, of Burch Avenue, Sandwich, targeted...
FURIOUS independent business owners have hit out after a late-night vandal daubed graffiti tags on a string of properties in Folkestone’s historic Old High Street. Shopfronts and buildings were defaced with the tag “Leon” during a...