Daniel Dabin

Founder, Editor & Investigative Journalist, Kent Local News

Daniel Dabin is an investigative journalist and the founder and editor of Kent Local News, and a Director of the publisher, NHNN Ltd. He leads the title’s public-interest investigations — including the multi-part Kent local government reorganisation series, the Kent water and sewage investigation, the four-part Britain’s energy future editorial, and the Medway safeguarding investigation — working from primary sources, FOI responses, and statutory filings rather than press releases. Daniel is also a qualified independent financial adviser (CeFA, CeMAP, Cert PFS, DipFA, IMC) with two decades of UK regulated experience; the two roles are kept editorially separate and KLN’s story list is independent of any client interest. He writes about Kent because he lives here.

Professional credentials

CeFA
CeMAP
Cert PFS
DipFA
IMC

Reporting expertise

Kent local news
Kent local government
Local government reorganisation
Public-interest investigations
Freedom of information journalism
UK political reporting
UK energy policy
UK financial services
Kent business and economy
Medway public services

Elsewhere

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Reporting published under NHNN Ltd and regulated by IMPRESS (membership NHNN67893). See our editorial policy, corrections policy, and complaints procedure.

Recent stories

Police appeal to find William “Billy” Dow, 48, missing from Erith

The deadline to sue the Government over Kent’s council shake-up falls this week. No public meeting is scheduled before it.

Can America grow its way out of $40 trillion of debt? Why Washington’s bet is already reaching Kent

UK mortgage approvals fall to lowest level since 2023 as borrowing costs climb

MI5 alert tells universities to cut ties with Chinese spy-linked funder: what it means for Kent

Have Britons given up on voting? A century of turnout, and what the people who stay at home say

Kent’s water, Part B: why fixing the leaks will not be enough, and what nobody has planned for

Maidstone cabinet declines scrutiny recommendations and approves Lockmeadow improvements

Kent’s water, Part A: the demand nobody in Whitstable voted for

Kent’s 14 councils, scored: Kent Local News publishes its first full Council Scorecard

Kent Police arrested 2,063 people over messages and online posts in five years

South East Water has failed. But who decided how many people it must supply?

Air traffic control failure grounds Gatwick departures – what Kent passengers are owed

Government U-turns on the cross-party devolution plan — the story KLN broke in April

Five months of asking under what law. Then the Government stopped to check.

Anti-mass-immigration protesters shut the roads into the Port of Dover for the whole of Saturday morning.

Told it was mandatory. Told it was not. Kent’s councils and the Government gave residents opposite answers

The Rochester firm taking the paperwork out of financial advice

Kent’s council shake-up is going to court: what the case is actually about

127 days. Twelve articles. One question. Still no answer.

Kent’s reorganisation reaches the High Court: residents file judicial review over the missing lawful authority

Betteshanger Country Park sale triggers community protections running to December 2027

The wolf in the window: what the record shows about the Fabian Society, eugenics and the dictators

Voter photo ID: what Dartford’s 2023 election figures show

Who picked Kent’s four new councils? The question the county council is now asking itself — explained

Who chose Kent’s new map? The county council’s own chairman is asking whether party politics played a part

Asked at every level, answered at none: the Kent reorganisation question still without a reply

We asked Kent’s 18 MPs to explain their grooming-inquiry vote. One did.

How Kent’s MPs voted on a national grooming-gangs inquiry

Who controls the internet — and who decides what you’re allowed to see?

Erased from search: how Kent Local News became almost invisible on Google and Bing

Voting on the unanswered: Kent approaches its 2027 reorganisation elections with the lawful-authority question still open

Royal Assent didn’t settle it: the Kent reorganisation legal challenge, explained

Kent’s water and the path to capacity: what the parties propose

Kent’s water and the bigger picture: how growth compounds across five systems

Name the lawful authority: fourteen Kent councils asked to justify LGR spending

Kent’s housing targets: the demographic engine

Kent’s statutory officers put on notice over pre-Royal-Assent reorganisation spending

Westminster’s New Barons: Mayors will be granted new powers

Kent’s housing-capacity gap: the documented numbers

Kent LGR 14 months of council spending lacked statutory authority

Liberal Democrats hold Tunbridge Wells with 11-seat sweep — Reform UK’s first borough slate yields no councillors

What’s Really Happening to Kent’s Rivers, Beaches and Water Bills

Tunbridge Wells Borough Council elections: your complete voter’s guide

The Cost of Crisis: How Kent’s Water and Sewage Networks Are Failing

Medway Council elections: your complete voter’s guide

Kent’s Councils Are Being Reorganised — Here’s What the Government’s Own Documents Reveal

Lords vote clears Devolution Bill for Royal Assent — Kent councils’ pre-Bill conduct remains subject to live legal challenge

Exclusive: Ministry admits no legal rationale, no consultation records, no impact assessment — as documents show Kent LGR sold to residents as mandatory

Kent’s ‘illegal migration emergency’ motion, one month on: what has it delivered?