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Mental health patients across the UK are spending years stranded in acute units awaiting discharge, figures show.

Over the past two years, at least 91 patients have waited more than a year to be discharged, with at least seven patients waiting more than two years.

At least 320 patients had to wait at least 100 days to be discharged, BBC Freedom of Information requests show.

Experts say a lack of suitable accommodation and wrangling over budgets are to blame for the delays.

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Five longest delays in England

1. Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust: 62-year-old awaiting a residential home, delayed by 1,159 days.
2. Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust: 60-year-old awaiting suitable housing, delayed by 868 days.
3. Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust: 27-year-old originally admitted to A&E, awaiting suitable supported housing. Delayed by 668 days.
4. Pennine Care NHS Foundation Trust: 59-year-old delayed by 602 days.
5. Essex Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust: 65-year-old awaiting a placement, delayed by 583 days.

Five authorities with highest percentage of beds in delay

1. NHS Tayside: 29.4%
2. Hywel Dda Health Board: 20.0%
3. Sheffield Health and Social Care NHS Foundation Trust: 17.1%
4. Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust: 15%
5. Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust: 12.3%

Jailed for being homosexual, Keith Biddlecombe talks about how it changed his life.

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.

Kathryn Langley
BBC Live reporter

The RNLI is urging people to "respect the water" this summer as part of a drowning prevention campaign, external.

The charity says more people die in UK waters in August than any other month.

Seven men died in the sea at Camber last summer.

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Bob Dale
BBC Live reporter

This wild animal park offers a room with a very different view.

Almost £1m of lottery funding is being spent on helping protect endangered bumblebees.

Kathryn Langley
BBC Live reporter

A giant mural has been painted in memory of a teenager who was electrocuted on a railway line.

The body of Taiyah Peebles was discovered on the tracks near Herne Bay station last week.

Margate artist Vince Pugh says he painted the mural as a "mark of respect" to the teenager.

Here are the headlines from the breakfast bulletin:

• A final decision on the future of children's centres in Medway will be made next Tuesday - after the council looked again at its plans.
• Health campaigners are calling for action to limit the number of takeaways, after new research indicated there are now more than 400 in Brighton alone.
• A footpath in Sussex - that was blocked off to the public for more than 40 years - has finally reopened.

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

Elizabeth Rizzini
BBC Look East weather

The rain's gone, but today's all about the wind.

Here's my forecast.

A 12-year-old girl from Kent has become the youngest person to climb all of the 214 Cumbrian peaks listed in Alfred Wainwright's famous guide to the Lakeland Fells.

But for Lauren Richardson, who's from Hoo, it's been an achievement with a difference.

She's one of the country's youngest amateur radio operators and at the summit of each peak she made radio contact with other "radio hams".

Bob Dale
BBC Live reporter

You wouldn't think so judging by the weather over the last couple of days.

Hopefully this picture will brighten up your day a little bit. It's Botany Bay taken by Carole Adams and it's our Kent #PhotoOfTheDay, external

Image source, Carole Adams

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