A mother of two is aiming to become the first woman to swim to shore from decommissioned sea forts off the Kent coast. Rebekah Kefford, from Birchington, plans to take on the eight mile (12.8km ...

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 ...

The three army forts were named Nore, Red Sands, and Shivering Sands, but only two remain standing - the Red Sands Fort and the Shivering Sands Fort.

Today, the towers are mostly abandoned. A 2021 structural inspection found the Red Sands Fort to be severely damaged, with parts of it already falling into the sea.

Two misguided adventurers had to be rescued from the sea after they attempted to reach an abandoned WW2 sea fort in an "overloaded" rubber dinghy. ... Sheppey, into the Thames Estuary in the hopes of ...

A mother of two is aiming to become the first woman to swim to shore from decommissioned sea forts off the Kent coast. Rebekah Kefford, from Birchington, plans to take on the eight mile (12.8km ...

Rebekah Kefford, from Birchington, plans to take on the eight mile (12.8km) challenge from the Red Sands forts in August.