Kathryn Langley
BBC Live reporter

The father of a teenager from Rainham who's been missing for nine days has made an emotional appeal for her to come home.

Abigale Spree was last seen on 22 July.

A Ramsgate teenager caught the man who attacked her by using her mobile phone. But would it have happened if there had been better street lighting?

D-Day veteran Albert Figg got his final wish - to be carried to his funeral in #Canterbury on a Royal Artillery gun carriage.

Bob Dale
BBC Live reporter

A police car responding to a call in Gillingham was involved in a minor collision with railings after it skidded on a wet road.

Kent Police was called at 03:03 BST on Sunday 30 July to Canterbury Street following reports of a disturbance.

A police patrol vehicle responding to the call was involved in a minor collision with railings after skidding on a wet road as it tried to stop. Nobody was injured.

Two men were arrested following the disturbance and have since been released without charge.

Video courtesy of Warren Wallace

Bob Dale
BBC Live reporter

Two new shelters are being opened for migrants sleeping rough around the port of Calais.

They'll be around 50 miles inland and will house up to 300 people.

Hundreds of migrants are thought to be hiding from police, despite the demolition of the so-called Jungle refugee camp last autumn.

France's highest court has ordered the state to provide them with running water and sanitation on humanitarian grounds.

Lauren Moss
BBC Live reporter

An MP is calling for landlords who offer accommodation in exchange for sex to be prosecuted after the justice secretary told him such arrangements were already a criminal offence.

A BBC South East investigation found that some landlords were targeting vulnerable young people with "sex for rent" deals.

They argued there was no compulsion on people to respond to such adverts.

But Justice Secretary David Lidington has revealed that such offers may breach the Sexual Offences Act.

Landlords that BBC South East spoke to in April said they did not believe they were breaking the law, one describing the deals as a "sex with benefits" arrangement, another as a "win-win situation".

But Hove MP Peter Kyle pledged to force website operators to ban "exploitative" adverts.

He took the case to the Ministry of Justice and has now been told by Mr Lidington that "such acts/arrangements are already a criminal offence in England and Wales by virtue of the Sexual Offences Act 2003".

Mr Lidington said in a letter: "Taken together, these [provisions] essentially mean that an offence is committed when a person offers accommodation in return for sex, as they are inciting/causing another person to have sex with them in return for 'payment'."

Image source, Getty Images

Adverts seen by BBC South East included one posted by a Maidstone man asking for a woman to move in and pretend to be his girlfriend, another publicising a double room available in Rochester in exchange for "services" and one in Brighton targeting younger men.

Tenants told the BBC they feared they would lose their accommodation if they did not comply with requests for sex.

But Mr Lidington's letter suggests police already have the weapons to take action against landlords imposing such demands on tenants and says the offence carries a prison sentence of up to seven years.

Mr Kyle said: "This is an incredibly significant moment, and it's going to protect vulnerable people enormously.

"Right now there are people out there advertising accommodation in return for sex. I want to see them prosecuted; I want to see them go through the courts process; I want to see them convicted, and I want to see them go to jail."

Balbir Chatrik, director of policy at Centrepoint homeless charity, said: "These landlords need to know this is not acceptable and they need to feel the full force of the law if they resort to these kind of adverts."

Thousands have signed a petition to save breastfeeding support centres across Kent, but the council says the same help will still be available.

Kate Kinsella
BBC Weather

A bright start for the first day of August, but tomorrow's not looking so pleasant.

Here's my forecast.

A mother says doctors blamed for her daughter's death have not apologised or faced sanction.

Bob Dale
BBC Live reporter

It's the beginning of August so hopefully we have lots of sunshine to look forward to.

To kick the day off we bring you this lovely picture of Paddock Wood taken by Rhys Webb - it's our Kent #PhotoOfTheDay, external

Image source, Rhys Webb

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