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  • Updates on Wednesday 23 August 2017

Live Reporting

  1. That's it from us

    Bob Dale
    BBC Live reporter

    Thanks for joining the team - we'll be back at 06:00 BST tomorrow with all your news, sport, travel and weather.

    Is there anything you'd like to tell us about?

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  2. Tunbridge Wells death 'not suspicious'

    Kathryn Langley
    BBC Live reporter

    Detectives investigating after a man was found dead at a campsite in Tunbridge Wells say they're not treating the death as suspicious.

    Police and ambulance crews were called to Powder Mill Lane just before 06:15 BST yesterday.

    The man was declared dead at the scene.

    A woman was taken to hospital where she's in a stable condition.

    Officers are asking anyone with information to get in touch.

  3. Gravesend woman going for gold

    Stuart Maisner
    BBC Live reporter

    A Kent Modern Pentathlete, ranked number two in the world, is hoping her success continues at the World Championships in Egypt.

  4. 'If I get better, I'm going to need these GCSEs'

    Yasmine Djadoudi
    BBC Live reporter

    Dover teenager Kelly Turner has had 27 rounds of chemotherapy, but she wasn't going to let that stop her taking her GCSEs.

    The 17-year-old gets her results tomorrow.

  5. Ain't no sunshine?

    Rachel Mackley
    Weather Presenter, BBC South East

    Is the sun going to reappear for the end of the week?

    Here's my forecast.

  6. Transgender legal simplification plea

    Former boxing promoter Kellie Maloney wants to cut the "bureaucratic burden" on people who are looking to change their legal gender.

  7. #ICYMI: From teenage party to award-winning festival

    It started as a teenage house party.

    Now LeeFest is one of the South East's biggest music festivals.

  8. Part-time soldiers put new skills into action

    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.

  9. Derelict building fire 'suspicious'

    A fire that saw about 100 people moved from their homes in Northfleet is being treated as suspicious.

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  10. Hedonist festival death 'not suspicious'

    The man was found dead at a site where a festival for "kinky, quirky, creative hedonists" was held.

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  11. Some decent sunny spells to come

    Georgina Burnett
    BBC Weather

    And feeling quite warm this afternoon too.

    Here's my latest forecast.

  12. Today's Kent newspaper headlines

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    Kent Online: Edinburgh Fringe's funniest jokes includes one-liner from Canterbury comic Mark Simmons

    Kent News: Dartford sprinter Adam Gemili among athletics heroes welcomed to Downing Street by Theresa May

    Kent Live: First pictures of the car fire that caused chaos on the M20

  13. Family awarded £20k payout after suicide

    Yasmine Djadoudi
    BBC Live reporter

    After a lengthy legal battle, the family of a mentally ill man who took his own life in 2013 have been awarded £20,000 in compensation for his death.

    You can read our full story here.

  14. Huge rise in dog attacks in the South East

    Figures obtained by the BBC show an increase of more than 60% in the past three years.

  15. Cancer victim sues his former employers

    A Kent man, who's dying from cancer at the age of 57, is suing his former employers for compensation, claiming he was exposed to asbestos.

  16. Canterbury's plans for Britains first 'dementia village'

    Stuart Maisner
    BBC Live reporter

    Britain's first purpose-built village for people with dementia could be created in Canterbury as part of the city's biggest ever housing project

  17. Chef hailed as star of the future

    Stuart Maisner
    BBC Live reporter

    A chef from Broadstairs has just been hailed a star of the future by the Good Food Guide.

    Ben Crittenden owns Stark, which seats just 12 people.

  18. How stone poses became a surreal project

    What started as a whim seven years ago has become a major project for a London-based photographer.

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  19. Kent mother's petition for still born babies to be registered

    Yasmine Djadoudi
    BBC Live reporter

    A mother from Kent is campaigning for stillborn babies to be registered after losing her son at just 20 weeks.

    UK law only allows babies born after 24 weeks to be registered but Lisa, from Canterbury, is campaigning to change the system.

  20. ICYMI: Hassan Zubier says he’s 'no hero' after being caught up in Finland attack

    A British paramedic who was repeatedly stabbed as he came to the aid of a woman caught up in the terror attack in the Finnish city of Turku has said he’s “not a hero”.

    Hassan Zubier, who was born in Kent, said: “I heard a really loud, heart-breaking scream. So I turned around and I saw one of the girls running… the first thing that I thought of was okay, this is a terrorist attack.”

    Mr Zubier went to the aid of a woman who had been badly injured. He was stabbed repeatedly as he tended to her.

    “I’m not a hero. I’m just a human being who cares for other human beings,” he said.