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Gillingham have been knocked out of the EFL cup. They lost two-nil at Reading in the first round.
The ex-paratrooper drove his family to safety after a gang twice shot his wife in a Brazilian slum.
Read MoreThe West Indies draw their tour match with Kent as weather impacts on their hopes of batting practice on the final day.
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BBC Live reporter
The parents of a 19-year-old volunteer from Canterbury who died in South Africa say they're taking legal action against the charity which organised the trip there.
Sarah Keith-Lucas
Weather presenter
There are more heavy downpours on the way for tomorrow. Here's my latest forecast.
Kathryn Langley
BBC Live reporter
A mother-of-three from Gravesend is still in hospital in Brazil after being shot in front of her husband and children.
Doctors say Eloise Dixon is lucky to be alive.
Image source, Getty ImagesLive coverage of Tuesday's EFL Cup game between Exeter City and Charlton Athletic.
Karl Robinson's selection gamble pays off as Charlton came from behind late on to beat Exeter in the EFL Cup.
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Stuart Maisner
BBC Live reporter
The roof of four flats in Ashford has been struck by lightning this evening.
Four fire engines are currently at the address of a three-storey property in Waltham Plan in Stanhope.
All residents have been accounted for and there are no reported injuries, although it is thought the occupants of four flats will need rehousing, says Kent Fire and Rescue.
Heavy rain has caused flooding on the M20 around the Ashford area leaving long delays.
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Image source, Getty ImagesLive coverage of Tuesday's EFL Cup game between Reading and Gillingham.
Midfielder Liam Kelly's fine brace gives Championship club Reading victory over Gillingham in the EFL Cup first round.
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Image source, Getty ImagesKent Live, external: Tragic last picture of adventurer who died after cross-English Channel swim attempt from Dover
Kent Online, external: Suspected illegal immigrants from Iran found at Shakespeare beach in Dover
Kent News, external: Swimmer who died trying to cross the Channel was 'doing what he loved best to the very end'
Robin Gibson
Reporter, BBC South East Today
What's it like to suffer from a long-term illness which no-one else can see?
An exhibition at a Medway art gallery tries to explain.
"Supreme athlete" Douglas Waymark was "doing what he loved" in an intense triathlon event.
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BBC Live reporter
A mum-of-four from Gillingham has been found guilty of trying to smuggle 12 Vietnamese migrants into the UK through the Channel Tunnel.
Katy Bethel, 28, was heavily pregnant at the time.
Stuart Maisner
BBC Live reporter
A hundred and forty part time soldiers from across the South East are taking part in a joint military exercise in America.
Rajdeep Sandhu
Political Reporter, BBC Radio Kent
The sounds of children crying isn't what you usually get at a council meeting. But this afternoon Cabinet at Medway Council was packed with concerned parents and their little ones.
They'd been protesting outside against plans to close six out of 19 Sure Start centres.
After Cabinet voted through proposals they we're greeted with shouts of "shame".
Despite the council changing their original plans to close all 19 and replace them with four larger hubs the parents I spoke to weren't convinced the service would stay the same.
Even though the decision has been made campaigners say they'll keep fighting.
Sue Nicholson
BBC News
Image source, PAThe impending transfer to an open prison of road rage killer Kenneth Noye has been described as "extremely disappointing" by the former detective superintendent who led the murder investigation.
Nick Biddiss said an open prison was a prelude to being released back into the community and he did not think Noye should ever be let out.
"He's a man who's lived his life by crime. He lived a very extensive life in the criminal world in south London and north Kent, and I think he'll be a danger when he's out.
"The criminal justice system, in my view, is letting the public down," Mr Biddiss said.
Noye was sentenced to life with a minimum term of 16 years in 2000 for stabbing to death 21-year-old Stephen Cameron on a slip road of the M25 at Swanley in May 1996.
Katy Bethel claimed she had no idea 12 men, women and children were in the back of the van.
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Simon Jones
Reporter, BBC South East Today
A mother of four from Kent has been found guilty of trying to smuggle 12 Vietnamese migrants into the UK through the Channel Tunnel.
Katy Bethel, who's 28 and from Gillingham, was heavily pregnant at the time.
The migrants - four men, five women and three children - were found in the back of a van-load of tyres in July 2015.
Image source, Home OfficeA Border Force officer in Coquelles spotted a pair of jeans sticking out of one of the tyres.
Katy Bethel was a passenger in the vehicle driven by her then-partner Aaron Harris. Harris pleaded guilty to assisting unlawful immigration.
Katy Bethel had claimed she had no idea the migrants were in the van. She said she and her partner had gone on a day trip, looking for a beach, but had got lost and left the van by the roadside as they went for a walk.
Image source, Home OfficeThe prosecution had accused her of talking 'nonsense'.
In the four hours the pair were in France, they sent and received 67 messages and calls to and from an unknown number, the court was told.
Bethel said Harris was using her phone on the trip to make calls and texts and she was unaware of their contents.
Kent mother of 4 found guilty of trying to smuggle 12 Vietnamese migrants into UK through the Channel Tunnel.