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Body Casting Olympians
April 20th 2012
Sculptor Louise Giblin and five British sporting heroes, including Tonbridge’s Dame Kelly Holmes and Paralympian Darren Leach, raise funds for charity through art
Do you have what it takes to become a Games Time Kent Greeter?
March 30th 2012
Are you excited about the London 2012 Games, do you love Kent, enjoy meeting people and are 18 or older?/ Then read on!
Kent Bright Young Thing
March 29th 2012
Ben Kite, 13, is Head Chorister of Rochester Cathedral Choir and has just won a Music Scholarship to King’s School Rochester
Calling all ex- Dukies! Your school needs you
March 17th 2012
Did you attend The Duke of York’s Royal Military School, Dover, any time between 1940 and the present day? Then please report to the school for a reunion on 25 March celebrating a major milestone its 209-year-history
Kent Life interviews Professor Ian Swingland, OBE
February 22nd 2012
He’s a personal friend of David Attenborough and Prince Charles, a zoologist, an inventor and he likes cooking and growing trees
Getting crafty in Kent
February 22nd 2012
How to knit, bead, quilt and sew with the Kent experts – and win craft books to help you become one too!
Charles Dickens at 200
January 16th 2012
2012 marks the bicentennial anniversary of the birth of Charles Dickens. A writer who spent much of his life in Kent, it is no surprise that the county both inspired his work and featured in it
Letter from the Editor
December 22nd 2011
Kent Life Editor Sarah Sturt shares some good news and looks ahead to a great new year
Reuse, recycle and restore - Kent leads the way
December 20th 2011
In our disposable culture, we are often quick to discard things, knowing that a cheap substitute is easy to obtain, regardless of the environmental impact that this approach can have. Yet not everything discarded has no further use
A Day in the Life of a Deer Farmer
October 31st 2011
Continuing our series ‘down on the farm,’ we meet deer farmer Sebastian Petersen to hear all about his typical working day...
Inspiration for Daniel Defoe's famous fictional character: Robinson Crusoe
October 3rd 2011
The story of Alexander Selkirk isn’t that well known today. We are instead far more familiar with the fictional character he inspired, Robinson Crusoe.
Fine Tuning: Mack Willett, 11, on his Tonbridge School scholarship ambitions
September 30th 2011
Mack Willett, 11, on his Tonbridge School scholarship ambitions, playing the piano and cello and the joys of the great outdoors
A day in the life of a Hop Farmer
September 29th 2011
Continuing our series ‘down on the farm’, we meet hop farmer James Rickards to hear all about his typical working day
Title: 300th year anniversary of Alexander Selkirk’s return to British soil
September 23rd 2011
October is the 300th year anniversary of Alexander Selkirk’s return to British soil, when he stepped onto the Kent coast at Erith in 1711. And who was Selkirk? Only the man who inspired Daniel Defoe’s famous fictional character.. Robinson Crusoe.
A day in the life of ... Peter Reeves, blackcurrant farmer
September 14th 2011
Continuing our series ‘down on the farm’, we meet blackcurrant farmer Peter Reeves to hear all about his typical working day
If you are between 19-35 the Kent Army Cadets Needs You!
September 13th 2011
Come and Live the Adventure as part of this exciting youth movement and get paid up to 28 days a year!
Bright Young Thing: Sports Star Marina Barwick
September 6th 2011
13-year-old Marina Barwick from Canterbury on her ambitions to represent England in hockey or cricket (or both), her interest in engineering and her school’s farm
Five Kent-based authors tell us their story
September 5th 2011
Thousands of manuscripts are sent to literary agents and publishers each month, but how do they make it onto the bookshelves? five Kent-based authors tell us their story...
The Dambuster, Wing Commander Guy Gibson, considered his time at RAF
July 19th 2011
The Dambuster, Wing Commander Guy Gibson, considered his time at RAF West Malling during 1942 as the ‘best of his life’. What is not generally known about him is that he was also a great supporter of the 1st Tovil Scout Group
Bright Young Thing: Kent’s Adam Lockwood
June 21st 2011
Agriculture student Adam Lockwood on starting his working life in salad production, his plans for future travels and why Kent’s climate is the best
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