Chart Road News Today

Fire crews are currently at the scene of a large pile of smouldering grass cuttings.

Here's just some of the criminals including burglars, thugs, sex offenders, drug dealers and killers who were locked up last month.

A thug who discovered his partner “with another man” punched her in the face before stabbing her guest with a screwdriver.

Eighty years ago today, bombs fell on a Kent town in one of the worst air raids to hit the county during the Second World War.

Trespassers warned against entering derelict Albert Villas in Chart Road, Ashford  |  Updated: 15:32, 18 January 2021 Trespassers have been warned not to enter two abandoned homes after teenagers were spotted clambering on the roof. The Albert Villas in Ashfords Chart Road have been deteriorating for many years, with windows smashed and brickwork crumbling. The Albert Villas are in a prominent spot in Chart Road But there have been repeated reports of people entering the semi-detached houses ...

Emergency services were called after a teenage boy was hit by a car on a main road.

New McDonalds drive-thru in Chart Road, Ashford, will spark traffic chaos  |  Updated: 12:06, 07 January 2021 The opening of a fourth McDonalds in Ashford will create traffic chaos on one of the towns busiest roundabouts, according to critics. Bosses at the burger giant want to turn a plot of undeveloped land off the notoriously congested Chart Road into a 136-seater site, creating more than 65 jobs. McDonald’s says the site represents an “appropriate location” for a 24-hour re...

Latest as France shuts border after coronavirus strain out of control with lorries stranded in Kent  |  Updated: 19:13, 22 December 2020 The travel ban on anyone from the UK going to France will be lifted at midnight tonight but details of the deal around testing has not been revealed yet. The EU has recommended lifting the travel ban causing chaos in Kent, while one MP has warned the longer the closure lasts the greater the risk of transmission. The entrance to the Port of Dover Picture: Bar...

 |  Updated: 19:41, 16 December 2020 A driver caught with 12 kilos of cannabis worth £180,000 in his van has been jailed. Officers uncovered 12 vacuum-packed bags of the Class B drug when they stopped Julian Muca, 25, near Ashford. Julian Muca has been jailed Muca, of no fixed address, has since admitted possession of cannabis with intent to supply and was jailed for 15 months at Canterbury Crown Court on Tuesday December 1. Officers from Tactical Operations spotted the Ford Transit betwee...