Pottery firm calls in the administrators

More retail jobs in Kent are at risk after historic china and glass firm Waterford Wedgwood became the latest victim of the economic slowdown.

Administrators at Deloitte were called in after lenders, including the Bank of America, called in their loans to the company which has debts of more than £400 million....

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Bluewater 'optimistic' for 2009 trading

Bluewater’s boss is "cautiously optimistic" about the shopping centre’s prospects for 2009 after the centre defied general retail gloom to...

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Building society's pledge to protect savers

Kent Reliance Building Society has pledged to do all it can to protect savers from plummeting interest rates in the...

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Mike Lazenby

Borrowers are winners as building society defends rates decision

Kent Reliance Building Society has pledged to do all it can to protect savers from plummeting interest rates in the...

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Mike Lazenby, chief executive of Kent Reliance Building Society

Housing market to pick up says building society chief

The housing market is set to pick up in 2009, according to a building society chief. That’s the surprising forecast...

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Year-end session sees modest gains

Year-end session sees modest gains

The worst year on record for London's FTSE 100 Index looked set to end with a modest rise on Wednesday.

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Disastrous year for UK blue-chips

Disastrous year for UK blue-chips

The FTSE 100 Index's worst ever year is to be confirmed when the market closes after a disastrous 12 months...

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Aberdeen buys part of Credit Suisse

Aberdeen buys part of Credit Suisse

Aberdeen Asset Management unveiled a deal to buy parts of Credit Suisse's fund management business in a move worth £250...

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St John Ambulance Kent members wearing uniforms spanning from the 1890s to the 1990s pose with an old wheeled stretcher. Picture by John Weshtrop

St John Ambulance - still healthy after all these years

These pictures show how far first aid has come in the last 100 years. One, thought to have been taken in Kent in 1890, shows St John nurses and possibly some dignitaries sitting in front of a group of nursing...

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