Leading Kent accountancy firm Horwath Clark Whitehill (HCW) has strengthened its tax team with the appointment of Sue Hidson.

Sue, 44, joins the Maidstone office of HCW from Kent-based Dendy Neville having previously worked for three of the Big Four accountancy firms in the UK - PricewaterhouseCoopers, KPMG and Ernst & Young. She has also worked as a lecturer and writer for the Financial Training Partnership [Read more →]

A free public lecture, dispelling the myths surrounding cancer and offering lifestyle advice on how to reduce the chances of acquiring the disease, has been held at the University of Greenwich at Medway [Read more →]

Handbags, chocolate, jewellery and clothes all feature in a one-off Christmas shopping event for women being hosted by the G Casino at Westwood Cross, East Kent’s largest shopping and leisure destination.

The Just For the Girls event, which is free to enter, is on Tuesday November 25 from 7pm and has been organised by G Casino’s sales and events manager Sheriil Hawker [Read more →]

Traditional Christmas good cheer is lacking in the South East’s High Streets as sales fell for a seventh consecutive month and retailers see no respite in November, according to the CBI.

Malcolm Hyde, CBI South East Regional Director, said: “Shoppers face competing pressures on their wallets and are spooked by worries over job losses and the slowing economy [Read more →]

Glittering fireworks set to the music of Abba and Queen will be the star of the show at Groombridge Place on Saturday 8th November at its bonfire night celebration, which is always one of the most popular in the South East [Read more →]

With 2008 marking the 25th anniversary of girls first attending St Edmund’s School Canterbury, its alumni association is hoping for a strong female turnout at the President’s Annual Dinner on 15 November [Read more →]

Leading Kent accountancy firm Horwath Clark Whitehill (HCW) has played a key role in the £1.4million investment by Close Ventures in domiciliary care agency Prime Care Holdings Limited [Read more →]

Three students from the University for the Creative Arts in Rochester have been rewarded for their designs in a publicity campaign to attract fresh visitors to Kent’s seaside towns [Read more →]

Kent Science Park was at the heart of the debate on what the Government is doing to help small and medium sized businesses ride out the current economic downturn when Prime Minister Gordon Brown and Cabinet colleagues visited the county [Read more →]

Kent frozen fruit and vegetable specialist Ardo UK has launched an Ask Our Chefs! online service in response to customer demand [Read more →]