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Biddenden Vineyards was awarded a 2-star Great Taste award for its Red Love® apple juice at Great Taste 2016, the world’s most coveted blind-tasted food awards. Britain’s first naturally red apple juice, Red Love®, was described by judges as “a…

Kent’s tallest tree, the “Old Man of Kent”, has been an iconic part of the Forestry Commission’s conifer collection at Bedgebury National Pinetum, near Goudhurst, Kent, and sadly it has now reached the end of its natural life and was…

Rock legend Roger Daltrey today opened the new restaurant and station facilities at the Romney, Hythe and Dymchurch Railway. The Who frontman, officially cut the ribbon to the railway’s recently upgraded restaurant at the station. The End of the Line…

Port Lympne reserve welcomes first baby giraffe in eight years Keepers and staff at Port Lympne Reserve, Kent’s largest wild animal park, have welcomed a critically endangered female Rothschild giraffe calf - the first to be born at the Reserve,…

Hall Place and Gardens in Bexley have today been awarded a prestigious Green Flag Award – the mark of a quality park or green space - for the 20th time. It is one of only six organisations in the UK to have received the…

Maidstone Museum has received a £78,700 grant from the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) for an exciting project to redisplay ancient Egyptian and Greek artefacts in an Ancient Civilisations Gallery. With support from the Maidstone Museums’ Foundation, the Egyptology Department at…

Tuesday 7 June saw the official opening of Hever Castle’s new garden exhibition Astor’s Garden Legacy by gardening celebrity, Rachel de Thame. Held on the Loggia with the stunning backdrop of the Lake and Italian Garden, over 60 guests attended…

To mark 950 years since King Harold took one in the eye and William the Conqueror triumphed, English Heritage has hidden 1,066 arrows at many of its castles and forts, stone circles and stately homes across the country – including…