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      <title>Tonbridge MP 1974-2015 Has Died</title>
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      <title>Torrington Car Park Development</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Three Kent county councillors expelled by Reform UK in October have formed a new group.]]></description>
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      <title>Asian Hornet Threat Rises</title>
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      <title>KCC Climate Shift is "Claptrap"</title>
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      <title>More High Brooms Buses</title>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 28 Sep 2025 15:44:31 +0100</pubDate>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 03 Oct 2025 13:41:24 +0100</pubDate>
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      <title>Reform UK's Maidstone Triumph</title>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 03 Oct 2025 19:53:17 +0100</pubDate>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 30 Sep 2025 20:56:48 +0100</pubDate>
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      <title>Primark Store Opening</title>
      <description><![CDATA[Primark is to open its new Tunbridge Wells store in November.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 25 Sep 2025 19:34:21 +0100</pubDate>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 25 Sep 2025 19:12:21 +0100</pubDate>
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      <title>Gatwick Expansion Approved</title>
      <description><![CDATA[The government has approved plans for a huge increase in flights at Gatwick Airport.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 21 Sep 2025 22:23:26 +0100</pubDate>
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      <title>Climate Fair Attracts Crowds</title>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 19 Sep 2025 12:17:05 +0100</pubDate>
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      <title>Sevenoaks District's Housing Boom</title>
      <description><![CDATA[Sevenoaks District Council has set out plans to build 17,000 homes in the coming 15 years to meet the Labour government's new targets.
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      <pubDate>Tue, 16 Sep 2025 21:20:43 +0100</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[Kent Wildlife Trust has bought an area of intensively farmed land near Lamberhurst and will convert it into a haven for nature.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 14 Sep 2025 21:07:12 +0100</pubDate>
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      <title>MP concerned by "Housing Crisis"</title>
      <description><![CDATA[Objectors to plans for 500 new homes on green fields to the south of Tunbridge Wells say they're disappointed by the "neutral" stance on the issue taken by local Liberal Democrats.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Sat, 13 Sep 2025 12:29:39 +0100</pubDate>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 12 Sep 2025 21:17:39 +0100</pubDate>
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      <title>100 Homes for Hadlow</title>
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      <title>500th Park Run in Dunorlan</title>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 26 Aug 2025 20:44:11 +0100</pubDate>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 22 Aug 2025 21:20:10 +0100</pubDate>
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      <title>Oast House Restoration</title>
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      <title>Paddock Wood Building Boom</title>
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      <pubDate>Sat, 16 Aug 2025 17:15:09 +0100</pubDate>
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      <title>Gothic Folly For Sale</title>
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      <title>New Parking Charges "Wrong"</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[People need to avoid contact with the water in the River Medway at Tonbridge due to toxic blue-green algae, with pets also at risk.]]></description>
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      <title>Historic Shelter Demolished</title>
      <description><![CDATA[A street cleaning machine has destroyed a historic brick and tile shelter put up in 1922 on the River Walk next to the Medway in Tonbridge.]]></description>
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      <title>Care Sector Staff Crisis</title>
      <description><![CDATA[The leader of Kent County Council has called on the government to reconsider new restrictions on using care workers from overseas.]]></description>
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      <title>Shape Southborough's Future!</title>
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      <title>Uber Arriving Soon</title>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 20 Jul 2025 14:11:19 +0100</pubDate>
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      <title>New Tonbridge Hotel Planned</title>
      <description><![CDATA[Details have been revealed on how Tonbridge town centre might look when a replacement leisure centre, 122 new homes and a new doctor's surgery are built. ]]></description>
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      <title>Staying in Historic HQ</title>
      <description><![CDATA[Reform UK's leader of Kent County Council says her administration will save £14 million by abandoning plans to move staff to a new building. ]]></description>
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      <title>"We definitely need a voice"</title>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 03 Jul 2025 16:29:47 +0100</pubDate>
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      <title>Still in the Post</title>
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      <title>No delay to Council Shake Up</title>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 01 Jul 2025 15:40:13 +0100</pubDate>
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      <title>Cash in Tonbridge</title>
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      <title>Installing Lifts</title>
      <description><![CDATA[The MP for Tunbridge Wells, Mike Martin, has started a petition to urge the government to fund a big investment at High Brooms railway station.]]></description>
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      <title>TWBC Centre's Milestone</title>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 20 Jun 2025 10:31:11 +0100</pubDate>
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      <title>Petition Hits 3,000</title>
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      <title>Reform In Charge</title>
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      <title>High Brooms Boost</title>
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      <pubDate>Sat, 07 Jun 2025 12:15:53 +0100</pubDate>
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      <title>Hearing Local Voices</title>
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      <title>9 Tories Go Independent</title>
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      <title>Safer Link to Retail Parks</title>
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      <title>Huge KCC Conservative Defeat</title>
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      <title>Tonbridge Results</title>
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      <title>Damage to Historic Train</title>
      <description><![CDATA[Graffiti vandals have undone hours of restoration work by volunteers at Spa Valley Railway.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 23 Apr 2025 14:02:41 +0100</pubDate>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 22 May 2025 19:06:48 +0100</pubDate>
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      <title>Major Refurbishment</title>
      <description><![CDATA[The Post Office in Frant has been officially reopened offering seven-day opening. ]]></description>
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      <title>"Best Choice"</title>
      <description><![CDATA[Linden Kemkaran, who lives in Headcorn, has been named as the new Reform UK leader of Kent County Council.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 27 Apr 2025 16:43:09 +0100</pubDate>
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      <title>Funding "challenging"</title>
      <description><![CDATA[A major redevelopment of Sevenoaks town centre is set to include a new swimming pool and 264 new homes.]]></description>
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      <title>Finches Farm</title>
      <description><![CDATA[There's strong local resistance to plans for 120 new homes on farmland next to Capel Primary School.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 17 Apr 2025 18:38:42 +0100</pubDate>
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      <title>Funding Cuts</title>
      <description><![CDATA[The boss of an Academy Trust that runs two secondary schools in Tonbridge has warned it could make teachers redundant.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 21 Apr 2025 09:56:14 +0100</pubDate>
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      <title>Properties "Too big"</title>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 10 Apr 2025 11:51:40 +0100</pubDate>
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      <title>Trend "Gathering Pace"</title>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 09 Apr 2025 13:26:56 +0100</pubDate>
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      <title>Bassetts Farm</title>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 03 Apr 2025 17:02:43 +0100</pubDate>
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      <title>"Devastating" changes </title>
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      <title>Due to Open in 2028</title>
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      <title>Glare Concerns</title>
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      <title>"More Efficient" Future</title>
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      <title>Boost For Business</title>
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      <title>New Vote in May</title>
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