Dover News - May 2015

Police have charged a teenage man after stopping a vehicle in Adelaide Road on 24 April.

Kent Police is appealing for help from members of the public to find a 36-year-old woman who has been reported missing from Deal.

Detectives from the Kent and Essex Serious Crime Directorate investigating a report of a missing woman in Deal have charged a man with murder.

The Port of Dover has been on the search for the latest local addition to the team of young people being nurtured and supported in a port-related career at Dover.

The Port of Dover is usually known to be at the forefront of managing and operating one of the busiest Roll on-Roll off terminals in the world, but staff have decided to volunteer their spare time and assemble a team to build and race a vehicle at this year's Red Bull Soapbox Race.

Police are appealing for information following an assault in Biggin Street on Friday afternoon.

The Port of Dover has won an award for best pension scheme at the prestigious Portfolio Institutional Awards. Running since 2012, the awards recognise excellence and forward thinking in how institutions run their pension schemes.

Over 68 thousand litres of alcohol and three lorries have been seized in an overnight operation to crackdown on excise fraud and smuggling in the Port of Dover.

A 6 month policing operation involving over 100 officers who carried out around 20 warrants over three days has resulted in taking at least 24 suspected drug dealers off the streets.

Dover District Council met on Wednesday for its first meeting since the elections on 7 May, with a third of the chamber being new Councillors.

Border Force officers at the inward freight controls at Dover's Eastern Docks have seized approximately 40 kilos of cocaine with a likely potential street value in excess of £1.6 million.

Officers have charged 23 people with drug offences following raids last week. More than 100 officers carried out 20 warrants over three days at address in Dover, Deal, Gravesend and London.

Future investments in tourism attractions in the Dover District are taking shape, with a range of new projects from partners, including the WW2 'deep shelter' tunnels and sound mirrors due to be opened at Fan Bay in July this year.