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Live updates on Monday 14 August 2017
Good night from the BBC Live teampublished at 21:54 British Summer Time 14 August 2017
Publican's epic swim in honour of his sisterpublished at 21:51 British Summer Time 14 August 2017
Stuart Maisner
BBC Live reporterA Maidstone publican is setting off on an epic swim to raise funds for the hospice named after his sister Demelza.
From teenage party to award-winning festivalpublished at 21:20 British Summer Time 14 August 2017
Stuart Maisner
BBC Live reporterIt started as a teenage house party. Now LeeFest - which took place last weekend - is one of Kent's biggest music festivals.
Men arrested after Sittingbourne break-inpublished at 20:58 British Summer Time 14 August 2017
Two men have been arrested by detectives investigating an attempted burglary in Sittingbourne.
Police were called to a business in Gadby Road just before 02:00 BST on Tuesday 8 August.
A 42-year-old and a 21-year-old were questioned and released while the investigation continues.
Police say they seized a lock knife, five packets containing white and brown powder and drug paraphernalia during a search of a nearby car park.
Teenage death in Cuba: 'He was so full of life'published at 20:16 British Summer Time 14 August 2017
Stuart Maisner
BBC Live reporterTributes have been paid to a teenage athlete from Whitstable who died in his sleep while on a school trip to Cuba.
The rain returnspublished at 19:32 British Summer Time 14 August 2017
Rachel Mackley
Weather Presenter, BBC South EastIt looks like the rain is going to make a return, but it shouldn't be too bad.
Watch my forecast to find out more.
Smuggler hid heroin in charcoal boxespublished at 18:45 British Summer Time 14 August 2017
A man who tried to get £11m of heroin into Dover is jailed for 14 years.
Read MoreAir show pilot 'wearing wrong sort of lifejacket'published at 17:55 British Summer Time 14 August 2017
An air show pilot who ditched his plane into the sea got wedged in the cockpit because he was wearing the wrong sort of lifejacket, the Air Accident Investigation Branch (AAIB) has found.
The pilot was giving a display of balloon bursting when the plane lost power.
The light aircraft came down in shallow water off Herne Bay during a display in the town on 14 August 2016.
The pilot's lifejacket then inflated automatically inside the plane.
Did you see M20 collision?published at 16:49 British Summer Time 14 August 2017
Kathryn Langley
BBC Live reporterPolice are looking for witnesses to a collision between a lorry and a motorbike on the M20.
Emergency crews were called to the London-bound carriageway near Wrotham Hill just after 15:15 BST yesterday.
The motorcyclist, a man in his 40s, was seriously hurt.
He's in a stable condition in hospital in London.
Officers want to hear from anyone who what happened.
Boy on Cuba school trip dies in sleeppublished at 15:54 British Summer Time 14 August 2017
Fifteen-year-old Alex Holliday was seen as a "rising star" of the local athletics scene.
Read MoreToday's Kent newspaper headlinespublished at 15:02 British Summer Time 14 August 2017
Image source, Getty ImagesKent Online, external: Appeal for witnesses after M20 lorry and motorbike crash
Kent News, external: 'Future Olympians being held back' by Kent's lack of 50-metre swimming pool
Kent Live, external: Far-right group Britain First is planning a Ramsgate rally
Doctor in the House author dies aged 95published at 14:36 British Summer Time 14 August 2017
Richard Gordon's books formed the basis for seven films and a television and radio comedy series.
Read MoreSome changeable weather on the waypublished at 13:54 British Summer Time 14 August 2017
Lucy Martin
BBC WeatherThere could be the odd rumble of thunder tonight but staying fairly mild.
Here's my latest forecast.
ICYMI: Part-time soldiers put new skills into actionpublished at 11:58 British Summer Time 14 August 2017
Part-time soldiers from Kent, Sussex and Surrey have spent two weeks training alongside the US military in Michigan
The reserve battalion of the Princess of Wales's Royal regiment have been taking part in an exercise designed to get NATO forces practicing working alongside each other.
Tributes to 'wonderful' pupil who's died in Cubapublished at 11:31 British Summer Time 14 August 2017
Kathryn Langley
BBC Live reporterTributes are being paid to a Kent student who died in his sleep on a school trip to Cuba.
Alex Holliday, who was in Year 10 at Queen Elizabeth's Grammar in Faversham, died during the early hours of Friday in a hotel room in Havana.
Thirty students from the school were taking part in a trip to study marine ecology.
The school's headteacher has paid tribute to Alex, saying he "will leave behind a huge void".
Quote MessageAlex was a wonderful person, unfailingly polite and courteous and keen to engage in the wider life of the school, particularly in sport.
Quote MessageIt goes without saying that he will be deeply missed by his classmates and all of the staff at Queen Elizabeth's. Staff, students and Governors at Queen Elizabeth's offer their condolences to Alex's family at this most difficult of times, they are very much in our thoughts."
David Anderson, Headteacher
Animal welfare group's victory over CCTVpublished at 10:44 British Summer Time 14 August 2017
Kathryn Langley
BBC Live reporterA Kent-based animal welfare group is claiming victory after the government announced plans for compulsory CCTV cameras in slaughterhouses.
Animal Aid says the move will help stop the illegal cruelty they've exposed through undercover filming.
'Respect the water' this Augustpublished at 09:30 British Summer Time 14 August 2017
The RNLI is urging people to "respect the water" this summer as part of a drowning prevention campaign.
The charity says more people die in UK waters in August than any other month.
'We feel abandoned and let down'published at 09:06 British Summer Time 14 August 2017
Kathryn Langley
BBC Live reporterThe parents of two severely disabled children forced to sleep in the living room of their council house in Ramsgate because they can't get up the stairs, say they feel "abandoned and let down" by the authorities.
They've turned down one house they were offered because they say it's not suitable.
Thanet District Council say they don't have anything else available.
Mum-of-four guilty of smuggling migrantspublished at 08:32 British Summer Time 14 August 2017
A mum-of-four from Gillingham, Kent, 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.
Rural crime figures publishedpublished at 07:52 British Summer Time 14 August 2017
Kathryn Langley
BBC Live reporterRural crime in the South East has risen sharply in the first half of this year, according to countryside insurer NFU Mutual.