Inspectors have told a secondary school to improve handing senior staff a 10-point plan but have praised steps already being taken to make changes.

A school has issued a warning after a pupil was approached by two men in a car and told to get in as she walked home.

A school facing "significant financial pressure" no longer has control of its own finances, as the executive head teacher steps down from her role.

A petition has been started calling for a safer crossing outside a school after a teenage girl suffered serious injuries.

Tributes to Kristin Foster, who worked at The Charles Dickens School in Broadstairs for 25 years throughout the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s, are being shared following her death.

An 83-year-old man has been arrested after a BMW hit a girl crossing outside a school. The crash happened near Charles Dickens School in Broadstairs between 8am and 8.20am this morning.

A popular Kent seaside town with links to Charles Dickens will be holding its annual festival in his honour this weekend.

The Broadstairs Dickens Festival has been running since 1937 and is a nod to Dickens’ many summers spent at the seaside town.

At Broadstairs a series of fetes has just taken place in honor of Dickens, the object being to establish a clubhouse for the working people and the fisher folk.