Kent miners festival
Good turnout for Miners Festival in Kent
Happy faces down on the farm
More than seven thousand people turned out for the Lounge on the Farm Festival in Canterbury last weekend.
Friday's Meridian headlines
Luke Castiglione has Friday's Meridian headlines. Flooding causes gridlock for festival goers on the Isle of Wight.
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Children's Parade starts the Festival
Redgrave leads the 2012 opening
10,000 spectators lined the route as cavemen, butterflies and superheroes, among the many creations, moved through the streets to the sound of samba music.
The parade is organised by community art charity, Same Sky. Vanessa Redgrave, guest director, led the parade with her grandchildren..
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80s vibe at Kent farm festival
The 80's pop super group Dexys has just been added to the Lounge on the Farm festival at Merton Farm in Canterbury.
Read the full storyThe Caribbean comes to Kent
Reggae lovers will be heading to the One Love festival in Kent this August, to celebrate 50 years of Jamaican Independence
Read the full storySussex games festival
Thousands of pinball wizards and Pac Man addicts will descend on Worthing tomorrow for the South Coast Slam - one of the largest festivals of its kind in Europe. Our reporter Andy Dickenson's met one man whose obsession with games is literally beyond control.
£100,000 secures funding for Medway Fuse Festival
by Andrea Thomas
FUSE Medway Festival, the free outdoor arts festival for Medway, Kent and beyond, has just received news that it has received an Arts Council Grant for the Arts award of £100,000.
Grants for the Arts are awarded to arts events and activities that are of exceptional quality.
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