A serial killer known as the ‘Gay Slayer’ after murdering five homosexual men has died in prison.

»The owners of a once- thriving toy shop chain are to close another down as they focus on their last remaining store in the borough and online sales.

Police have released this CCTV image of a man they want to question in connection with 37 frauds at Wickes stores across the south east.

More than 150 signatures were collected on Saturday as part of a campaign on energy prices.

Ebbsfleet United Football Club suffered a double blow after it was burgled for the second time in just over a week.

Police are linking the theft of £5,000 worth of cigarettes with 10 other similar incidents since the new year.

»When Eros’s bow on the famous Piccadilly statue became bent, one of the south-east’s leading heritage and monument maintenance specialists was tasked with putting it back in line.

Several residents have been evacuated from their homes as engineers attempt to fix a broken gas mains on a busy housing estate.

Schoolchildren have been studying Charles Dickens in the week his bicentenary was celebrated.

Sixteen abused children have been saved from the clutches of sexual predators in the past year, identified in pictures of victims obtained by a specialist police unit based in the county.