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Experience the scenic River Medway this summer on-board the Kentish Lady and combine this with a visit and guided tour of Allington Castle's beautiful gardens, courtyards and also its impressive Great Hall. Allington Castle is possibly Kent's best kept secret,…

Biddenden Vineyards, Kent’s original commercial vineyard, has been awarded ‘Family Business of the Year’ at this year’s Kent Excellence in Business Awards (KEiBA).  The vineyard is owned & managed independently by the second & third generation of the Barnes family…

Top Canterbury organisations are coming together to present a very special education day for local schools. The Canterbury Tales, Westgate Towers, St Augustine’s Abbey, Beaney House of Art and Knowledge, Canterbury Christchurch University and Whitefriars Shopping Centre are working in…

A Game of Bowls, by American painter John Singer Sargent, has been acquired for the National Trust’s Ightham Mote in Kent following a successful campaign to raise funds to purchase it for the nation. The large-scale painting is a rare…

With less than 2500 mature Rothschild giraffes left in the wild, Port Lympne Hotel & Reserve are once more celebrating a giraffe birth; this time a female calf on Friday 15th June at the popular visitor attraction. This is mother…

Howletts Wild Animal Park, near Canterbury, is celebrating the birth of a beautiful western lowland gorilla. The latest arrival takes the total number of births at the popular breeding sanctuary to a record 139, firmly cementing the park’s reputation as…

Visitors to Wildwood are in luck this week with sightings of our baby red squirrels. These new babies, born 3 weeks ago and now venturing out of their nest boxes are Wildwood's first brood this year. After maturing at the…

The Moroccan Courtyard, which hosted high society parties has reopened at Port Lympne Hotel and Reserve after a lavish restoration to its roaring twenties glory. Unique in the UK, the courtyard was designed by Sir Philip Sassoon, the baronet and…