Two Folkestone schools are celebrating good Ofsted reports this week after previously being told to improve at their last inspections. Both Folkestone Academy and Christ Church CofE Primary Academy ...

A teacher will become only the second woman in the world to attempt a daunting challenge off the Kent coast this summer. Jess Laurent, 34, will need all the courage and stamina she can muster when she ...

A Folkestone secondary is to get the UK's first school skate park - but not everyone is happy about the move. Folkestone Academy has been given the green light for the facility on its campus near Park ...

A "first of its kind" school skatepark has officially opened. Top riders presented the new facility at Folkestone Academy, Kent, to the local community during an event on Saturday that drew in ...

A state school has become the first in Britain to get its own skate park. Folkestone Academy's new $198,000 facility is available to students during school days and to the wider community at weekends.

Motorists filmed driving on pavements outside a Folkestone school are being investigated, Kent Police have said. The footage, filmed by Beau Mallett who lives near Folkestone Academy, shows drivers ...