Blackburn are knocked off the top of League One after being held to a draw by Gillingham.

Wrexham's National League play-off prospects took another blow as Ebbsfleet kept their slim hopes of reaching them alive with a 3-0 win.

Bob Dale
BBC Live reporter

Floral tributes to a suspected burglar from Swanley, who died during a botched raid, have been torn down for a second time.

Caitlin Webb
Local Democracy Reporter

A farmer has had plans to build eight barns on his land rejected amid fears it would ruin Kent's countryside.

Having already rejected six applications, Maidstone Borough Council refused a further two for a farm in Lenham at a planning meeting last Thursday.

Ramblers and the parish council opposed the Gipps Oast farm plans due to concerns over traffic.

Former editor of East Kent Mercury and founding member of the White Cliffs Ramblers, Graham Smith, said the barns would have a "seriously detrimental effect" on the surrounding area.

Michael Tamsett, who represents the farmer, told the council the barns were crucial for the business.

Floral tributes to Henry Vincent have been repeatedly attached and removed near where he was killed.

A man stamped on flowers and balloons left in tribute to a suspected burglar killed at the house.

An inquest has resumed into the death of a Russian whistleblower, who was found dead in Surrey in 2012.

Bob Dale
BBC Live reporter

A teenager's brain tumour was found by an optician, after a hospital sent him away with pain relief for unbearable headaches.

The four Cheeki Rafiki crewmen died when the yacht capsized more than 700 miles from Nova Scotia.

Floral tributes to Henry Vincent are removed from a fence near where he was killed in Hither Green.

Teenager was stabbed to death in 'gang-related' attack, a court hears.

An agreement between Woking, the local council and a development company secures their long-term future at Kingfield.

An attack on a man as he was leaving the Goose pub in Ramsgate has led to a CCTV appeal by police.

Kent Police said the victim in his late teens needed hospital treatment for facial injuries after the attack in Harbour Street in the early hours on 2 April.

Image source, Kent Police

Roadside littering is costing councils hundreds of millions of pounds a year and causing havoc for wildlife.

Campaigners are calling for tougher fines for drivers who litter and a national policy for dealing it.

About a dozen police vehicles attended the Travelodge in Ely earlier as part of an investigation into a missing teenager.

Seven marked Cambridgeshire cars, unmarked vehicles and two police vans - one from Kent Police - pulled into the car park of the hotel on Witchford Road with lights flashing and sirens blaring at about 13:45 on Tuesday.

Image source, Spotted in Ely

The BBC understands officers took three people out of the hotel and removed evidence from the building.

A Cambridgeshire Police spokeswoman said the raid was part of a Kent Police-led investigation into a missing teenager, but could give no other details.

Image source, Spotted in Ely

A Kent Police spokesman said: "Officers from [the force] were in Ely, Cambridgeshire to locate a missing 16-year-old girl from Kent. She has been found safe and well and enquiries are ongoing."

Sue Nicholson
BBC News

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Five new cases of measles have been reported in Kent in the first confirmed outbreak of the illness since 2016.

Public Health England (PHE) said the cases had been in Swale and the Medway towns in the past two to three weeks.

It said healthcare staff should consider measles in any patient with a fever and a rash, and call PHE immediately if it's suspected.

Strood GP Dr Julian Spinks said there was a link between a recurrence of the disease and a fall in the take up of the measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) vaccine.

"We are below where we should be," he said.

"Once you're getting below 95% of people vaccinated, then you can get outbreaks happen," he said.

The MMR vaccine is given on the NHS as a single injection to babies as part of their routine vaccination schedule, external, usually within a month of their first birthday.

They will then have a second injection of the vaccine before starting school, usually at three years and four months.

Surrey sign former South Africa fast bowler Morne Morkel on a two-year Kolpak deal, so he will not count as an overseas player.

Why drinkers in Thanet are raising a glass to their local vicar.

Witnesses are being sought following an attempted robbery in Worthing early last Friday.

Two men walking along Cowper Road at about 00:40 BST were asked by a woman on the other side of the road if they had a cigarette.

They replied no and turned west into Mill Road where two suspects approached them and demanded their money and phones. One of them was possibly holding a knife.

They refused to hand over any valuables and ran off.

A 34-year-old woman from Lancing was arrested on suspicion of attempted robbery and possession of a class A drug.

She was later released under investigation.

When Ivy Woolcock was born in 1911, Gravesend's buses were pulled by horses.

Now one of the modern vehicles carrying passengers around the town will also carry her name.