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Maidstone is the largest town in Kent, England, of which it is the county town.Maidstone is historically important and lies 32 miles (51 km) east-south-east of London. The River Medway runs through the centre of the town, linking it with Rochester and the Thames Estuary.
KM Media Group can trace its roots back to 1859, when the Maidstone Telegraph (now the Kent Messenger) was first published in Kent's county town of Maidstone.The newspaper was taken over by Barham Pratt Boorman in 1890, after its owners, the Masters brothers, were jailed and forced to sell up.
The Kent Messenger remains the flagship newspaper for the KM Group. Besides the main edition for Maidstone, editions are also published for Malling and the Weald. Along with the rest of the KM-owned papers, the Kent Messenger was given a design overhaul in May 2005. [5] The current editor is Denise Eaton.
The Borough of Maidstone is a local government district with borough status in Kent, England.Its administrative centre is Maidstone, the county town of Kent.. The borough was formed on 1 April 1974 by the merger of the municipal borough of Maidstone with the rural districts of Maidstone and Hollingbourne, under the Local Government Act 1972.
Kent County Council has met in Maidstone since 1889, when county councils were first established across England and Wales. [11] There was a severe epidemic of typhoid fever in Maidstone in 1897, [12] with 1,888 reported cases and at least 130 deaths. [13]
Of Kent's thirteen districts, two are under Conservative control (Sevenoaks, Dartford), four are under Labour control (Gravesham, Medway, Thanet, Dover), one is under Liberal Democrat control (Tunbridge Wells), and six are under no overall control and are administered by coalitions (Tonbridge and Malling, Maidstone, Swale, Ashford, Canterbury ...
The 2024 Maidstone Borough Council election took place on Thursday 2 May 2024, alongside the other local elections in the United Kingdom being held on the same day. All 49 members of Maidstone Borough Council in Kent were elected following boundary changes. [1] The council remained under no overall control.
County Hall continued to serve as the main venue for the assizes in the county of Kent for much of the 20th century. [8] Following the implementation of the Courts Act 1971, [9] the building served as a venue for crown court hearings until the new Law Courts in Barker Road were completed in 1983. [10]