• Firefighters tackle Whitstable car fire

  By LocalAdam at 11:29 on 03/09/12

  

  FIREFIGHTERS have been called out to a car which had caught alight in Whitstable. Two fire engines were sent to the scene in Chestfield at 4.40am yesterday morning. Crews spent just under an hour tackling the fire and making the area safe. No one was reported injured in the incident.

• Did you see Herne Bay assault?

  By neiljenkin at 14:46 on 26/04/12

  

  Police are appealing for witnesses to an attack on a driver on Mickleburgh Hill, Herne Bay, earlier this month. The incident took place between 10.30 and 10.45pm on Easter Bank Holiday Monday – April 9 – near the junction with Margate Road. The motorist was driving towards the Margate Road junction when he saw two youths with a mountain bike in the road in front of him. One fell off his bike. When the driver got out of his...

• Hunt for van after cash machine stolen from Whitstable garage

  By susanhubbard at 12:50 on 13/03/12

  

  Police are looking for a white van involved in the theft of a cash machine containing thousands of pounds from the forecourt of a Whitstable petrol station. They also think the machine may by now have been dumped in the countryside and want people to look out for it. It seems that at least two people turned up in a Ford Iveco Daily van, possibly with a tailgate, outside the garage on Borstal Hill between 3am and 3.30am last Friday and...

• Man assaulted in Nelson Road

  By susanhubbard at 16:46 on 07/03/12

  

  Police are looking for witnesses following a report of an assault in Nelson Road last Friday night (2nd March). A 43-year-old Whitstable man told them he was walking with a friend when approached by a group of young people - three or four young men and a female - who punched and kicked him as he fell over. He was treated at William Harvey Hospital in Ashford for a lip injury. The police have been carrying out house-to-house...

• Woman robbed in shop

  By susanhubbard at 16:14 on 02/03/12

  

  A Whitstable pensioner was robbed of several hundreds of pounds plus her pension book, police have disclosed. The incident happened in Harbour Street back on Monday 30th January, but an appeal for help along with a CCTV image have just been released by the police. They say the victim was a local woman in her 70s who was robbed in a shop. She does not want to be identified. The couple in the image may be able to help, so police would...

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