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HISTORICAL FACTS: Ramsgate - Caught on Camera

I went to a festival in Kent – and had a revelation about human ingenuity

A piano wired to a tree might seem an unlikely crowd-puller. But in Ramsgate last weekend, an experimental musician reminded me how boundless creativity can be, writes Zoe Williams

The Guardian - UK · Sep 15

‘Quite frankly, we have nothing to lose’: how the UK is going weird for its 2026 Eurovision entry

Look Mum No Computer is an inventor, musician and founder of a museum in Ramsgate. His YouTube videos range from restoring 1920s cars to creating synthesiser odysseys

The Guardian - UK · Feb 17

A new lido could transform this Kent seaside town’s marina

An Olympic-sized bathing pool was built on the site in the 1930s

The Independent UK · Feb 10

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Last youth centre in one of England’s most deprived coastal areas faces closure

Pie Factory Music in Ramsgate, Kent, runs creative projects and provides a range of support services, but the building that houses the centre is due to be sold off in February

The Guardian - UK · Nov 9, 2025

'It's amazing what survived': inside a colourful Art Deco house in Ramsgate with an air raid shelter in garden

The house has had four different owners since it was built in 1936 - now, it is looking for a fifth

Evening Standard · Nov 7, 2025

In Kent, the ‘silent Reform voter’ may give Nigel Farage his greatest victory

On the campaign trail in Ramsgate, the Reform leader was keen to talk immigration and his distrust of the Tories

The Guardian - UK · Apr 26, 2025

London leavers: 'Rent in Elephant and Castle was £1,200 a month — in Ramsgate we can save for our first home'

Leaving London has allowed Scarlett Aldridge to set up her own fruit ice-cream pop-up by the sea

Evening Standard · Aug 12, 2024

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London leavers: 'We sold our £1.2m Hackney house and bought a £380k fixer-upper in Ramsgate'

Natasha and Mark McNamara bribed their children with a dog to move down to the seaside

Evening Standard · Apr 15, 2024

Major search underway as man ‘falls overboard’ on cruise ship off Ramsgate coast

Lifeboats and Costguard crew are despatched to an area of English Channel near Ramsgate

The Independent UK · Oct 22, 2023

Leaving London: how one family swapped a Hoxton high-rise block for a Kent townhouse with sea views

Former hospital matron Cayli has found more space, a creative community and a new career in Ramsgate

Evening Standard · Sep 18, 2023

Leaving London: how one couple bought a house in Ramsgate to escape the London rental trap — and halved their monthly costs

A hot tip saw Jemima and Duncan switch their search to Ramsgate after considering other seaside towns

Evening Standard · Aug 21, 2023

'I had 24-hours to save bookshop after soaring bills left me £800 short - then a tweet changed everything'

Sapphire Bates's dream came true when she opened her very own independent bookshop in Ramsgate last summer, but her sky-rocketing gas and electricity bills have left her unable to pay the bills this month

Daily Mirror · Feb 27, 2023

'I've been celibate for 11 years and fell pregnant with a £25 DIY sperm kit'

Verity Jones, 35, from Ramsgate, Kent, wanted a baby without having sex, so she decided to take matters into her own hands and bought a £25 DIY sperm kit online

Daily Mirror · Feb 2, 2023

Woman warns tourists about 'Super Spoons' pub and its one downfall

The 'world's largest' Wetherspoons in Ramsgate boasts a beach front location and an inviting sundeck, but visitors are warned to not have high expectations.

Daily Record · Jan 12, 2023

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Daily Mirror · Jan 10, 2023

Inside the world's biggest Wetherspoons – 11,000sq ft Grade II hall right on the beach

The Royal Victoria Pavilion in Ramsgate, which boasts 11,000sq ft of drinking space in a stunning Edwardian listed building on the beach, was bought by Wetherspoons after falling into disrepair

Evening Standard · Nov 3, 2022

Migrant begs for help in message in a bottle

Migrants being held in the Manston processing centre have begged for help as they described the conditions as a “prison”.A young girl threw a bottle containing a letter over the perimeter fence to a PA news agency photographer on Wednesday afternoon which claimed there were pregnant women and sick detainees…

The Independent UK · Sep 4, 2022

‘Callous’ mother and daughter stole from elderly to pay for cigarettes and alcohol

Dionne Clarke, 57 and Cherrelle Clarke, 29 committed a number of offences in Canterbury and Ramsgate

The Independent UK · Aug 13, 2022

Ramsgate crash: Man charged after collision that killed a mother of two and her father

Officers investigating the incident also arrested a 58-year-old man and a 55-year-old woman on suspicion of assisting an offender

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Daily Mirror · Aug 11, 2022

Cambridge physicist, 40, killed alongside her dad after car crashes into their family

Cambridge physicist Noga Sella and her father were killed when the black Alpha Romeo hit the family in Ramsgate as police arrested the driver of the car who is in hospital

The Guardian - UK · Aug 11, 2022

Two dead, child seriously injured after car hits pedestrians in Ramsgate

Man, 30, arrested on suspicion of causing death by dangerous driving and leaving the scene of an accident

Evening Standard · Aug 11, 2022

Ramsgate: Two dead, child seriously injured after car hits family in Kent

Two people have been killed and a child seriously injured after a car hit five members of the same family in Ramsgate, Kent.

The Independent UK · Aug 11, 2022

Two dead and girl seriously injured after car hits pedestrians

The incident occurred outside a car park in Ramsgate, Kent, on Wednesday evening.

Daily Mirror · Aug 2, 2022

Mum crowdfunding her divorce in bid to rebuild her life after unhappy marriage

Genevieve Pepper, 44, from Ramsgate, Kent says she was offered 30 per cent of the value of the family home, so is now heading to court to try and get 50 per cent

Asharq Al-Awsat · Jul 25, 2022

British Scientists Try to Uncover Origins of Egyptian Mummy’s Head

A decapitated Egyptian mummy’s head has been discovered in an attic in the British county of Kent. Scientists are putting it through a state-of-the-art CT scan to try and uncover its origins. The head may have been a souvenir brought to England in the 19th century and given to the…

Daily Mirror · Jul 23, 2022

Ancient mummified head found stashed in UK attic leaves experts baffled

Very little was known about the mummified head, which was found in an attic in Ramsgate, Kent, and was then given to Canterbury Museums and Galleries

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