The road, which connects the town with the harbour, was closed by a landslide in January 2024.

The Folkestone Triennial opens to the public today, July 22, in the British seaside town of the same name. For the fifth edition of the town’s triennial of public art (through November 2), organizers ...

Creative Folkestone Triennial 2021, The Plot, is a free exhibition that opened to the public in July and runs until 2 November, with 23 major new public artworks across the town by 25 artists. With ...

The Japanese ambassador to the UK posed with a giant seagull statue during a visit to a coastal town in Kent. Hiroshi Suzuki, ...

The world’s first multilevel skatepark could easily have come across as architectural dad-dancing, but it’s just right for its target audience Ah, Tontine Street, once the most prosperous in ...

Along The Leas — the impressive swathe of clifftop green space running above the seafront — there is all the evidence that this was once a fashionable seaside resort. And in the centre of town the ...

A street festival designed for teenagers is being piloted in Folkestone. The Folke About Town pop-up will feature free skateboarding sessions, bike repairs as well as screen printing, zines and a ...

For 100 prosperous years ferries to France were Folkestone’s modus operandi. London-Paris trains would stop at the harbour as steamboats took passengers across the Channel. However, with the advent of ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

The Author in 1940 complete with gas mask and tin hat My life in Folkestone during World War Two (as seen through the eyes of a young child ) When the war started I was two and a half and when it ...