Kent Police are appealing for help to find missing 14-year-old, Ayisha Ireland, who disappeared from her home in Ramsgate at around 8.30pm on Tuesday 15th November. The teenager is described as white, about 5ft tall with a stocky build and as having shoulder length light brown hair and a pale complexion. Ayisha is known to have friends and relatives in Kent, Sussex and areas of London. If anyone has any information, they should call 101 or Missing People on 0500 700 700.

The village of Lympne has suffered another attack of cable theft as residents were left without telephone lines and broadband over the weekend. It is the third time metal thieves have targeted the same area in the last year. The incident was noticed when village residents reported faults and BT engineers found that hundreds of meters of copper cable had been stolen and two major cables were severed. Engineers were working over the weekend and connections in the village should be back to normal today.

Kent County Council has filled two depots with thousands of tons of salt ready for the winter. The sites on the Henwood Industrial Estate in Ashford and at Stanford, Hythe, have been stocked up with salt and staff are prepared to go if icy conditions hit Kent’s roads.

In addition to the salting lorries, 180 farmers have been provided with snow ploughs to help keep rural roads open. KCC has eight depots across Kent with more than 20,000 tonnes of salt and over 60 lorries. Around 15% of the country’s major road networks and other A and B roads are treated by Kent’s fleet.

The historic Folkestone Leas Lift is planned to re-open this Saturday after essential maintenance work was carried out. Some of the sleepers and a part of the automatic braking system needed replacing and work was carried out in the pump room where areas of the floor also needed to be replaced.

Volunteers also filled a time capsule which was buried into the concrete floor during the work with all the information currently held on the lift and copies of tickets. Historical pictures and photos of the people who have been involved in running the visitor attraction were also put into the container. The lift has carried more than 50 million people since it opened 125 years ago.

The Folkestone Leas Lift Community Interest Company has been running it since July 2010 and operates the lift as a living museum. It is only the fourth company to manage it in its history.

Kent trading Standards and the Food Standards Agency are warning people not to drink illegal vodka that has been found on sale in shops and petrol stations across the country. The brand called ‘Drop Vodka’ has not been registered by any company in the UK and the manufacturer has not been traced, it has therefore not been possible to ensure that any of the usual checks that occur on food and drink before being placed on the market, have been taken.

Tests by local authorities have identified the presence of Propan-2-ol which make the drink a health risk and unsafe for consumption.

Other tests have also found that the product does not contain enough alcohol to be called Vodka, which should be 37.5% ABV in line with the Spirits and Drinks Regulations 2008. Samples have detected levels of 28.6% ABV, well below the ABV advertised on the bottle.

Plans to build a new £2.5m Battle of Britain visitor centre have been submitted to Dover District Council. The proposed building at the National Memorial to the Few, Capel-le-Ferne, is in the shape of a double spitfire wing.

According to the Hawkinge Gazette, The Battle of Britain Memorial Trust has said the centre, which will be called The Wing, will not be a museum.

Proposals for the building include an exhibition space, a cafe and a shop, and at the centre of the two wings there will be a balcony with views across the English Channel to France.

The trust is bidding for National Lottery funding to help build and fit out the centre.

The Kent community recycling centre, based in Hawkinge, has closed its doors for the last time after 22-years. The not-for-profit organisation applied to Shepway district council for help after struggling for more than a year when they lost a major funding stream, but their application was rejected.

KRC rewarded people for recycling with them by paying cash for their recyclable materials or inviting them to donate the proceeds.

The company had raised nearly £700,000 for local charities over the years along with running a scheme where recyclers could choose to send a bag of sweets to troops overseas, rather than take cash for their recyclables, resulting in 1,000 bags of sweets being sent to front line troops in Afghanistan.

The community company also worked with the University of Sussex in Brighton, providing pure, fine glass chippings for research into filtering arsenic from drinking water in Bangladesh.

Earlier this year KRC produced an educational DVD which Kent County Council circulated the details of to schools across the county.

Kent fire and rescue is urging people to ‘stand by your pans’ after two properties in Kent were damaged by fires in separate incidents over the weekend, including one in Folkestone.

Fire crew were called to a flat in Church Street on Sunday 20th November, when a chip pan caught fire after the owner fell asleep. The man was alerted by his smoke alarm and treated by paramedics at the scene for smoke inhalation. A similar incident also happened in Medway early Saturday morning when a man left chips in the oven after coming home from a night out.

The Fire and Rescue Service are asking people to think carefully when cooking late at night as there is a high risk that food can burn if left unattended. A cooking safety film has been released as part of the ‘stand by your pan’ campaign to help raise awareness.

Plans to build a heritage amusement park on the Margate Dreamland site have been awarded a £3m grant from the Heritage Lottery Fund.

The project to build the park, the first of its kind, has already been given £3.7m by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport and £4m from Thanet Council. The grant from HLF will be released once a compulsory purchase order on the site has been confirmed which is subject to a public inquiry, due to start in January 2012.

It is expected that around 350,000 people would visit the heritage amusement park every year, according to The Dreamland Trust, the organisation behind the project.

RAF sharpshooters, on board military helicopters may be patrolling air space in London during the 2012 Olympic games according to reports.

The Mail on Sunday understands that the training has been at the Lydd military live-firing range in Romney Marsh and has been designed to prepare for an Olympic Games deployment as helicopters protect stadium sites.