The second-generation immigrant son of a bus driver previously served Boris Johnson as chancellor.

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The party now has 22 seats - enough to maintain control of the Surrey council.

Middlesex finish day one at Sussex on top thanks to Max Holden's unbeaten 84 and early breakthroughs with the ball.

Despite that and another lost seat Conservatives maintain a hold on Tunbridge Wells.

Coastguards and lifeboat crews were scrambled to ensure the mannequin was not a body.

Labour sees small gains across Sussex, including one seat in which a Conservative candidate allegedly lied.

A four-year-old boy who was in a car when it was stolen has been found.

He was in a white Range Rover which was stolen from Chatham High Street at just before 16:45 BST.

The boy was found safe and well by a member of the public after he was dropped off outside Chatham railway station.

The car was later found abandoned in Rochester Street in Chatham, Kent Police said.

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Captain Rory Burns bats out the first day at The Oval with an unbeaten century as Surrey make Worcestershire toil.

Rajdeep Sandhu
Political Reporter, BBC Radio Kent

Neither the Conservatives or the Liberal Democrats were confident in taking control of Maidstone council. It was a tight race with 22 councillors each.

As results started coming in fast, it became apparent quickly neither would get the numbers for an overall majority.

The Liberal Democrats were left disappointed while Conservatives were not only relieved to not lose seats but cheering and whooping at the three gains.

Maidstone is a committee system and now there will be talks as to who takes the helm.

The Conservatives as the largest party could take the leadership, but every councillor gets a vote on the leadership so they’ll need to get help from three councillors from other parties or the independents.

As predicted, Tunbridge Wells stayed blue.

But there was a shocking win for the new kids on the block - the Tunbridge Wells Alliance.

The Liberal Democrats also took a seat from the Conservatives and Labour held its seat.

The win from the new party shows the strength of feeling against plans to develop a new theatre and civic centre in the middle of the town.

Now the party has a seat, expect to hear much more about that development.

A teenager has been jailed for eight years for the rape of a 14-year-old girl in Newhaven in September.

Damion Elie, who was 17 at the time and is now 18, was sentenced at Lewes Crown Court to eight years in a young offenders' institution.

He was told he would be placed on the sex offenders' register for life.

One further count of rape is to lie on file.

The Conservatives gained three seats on Elmbridge Borough Council although the council remains in no overall control.

The Lib Dems also gained one seat - all at the expense of the Residents' Association which lost four councillors.

The Conservatives are the largest party, with the same number of councillors as the Lib Dems and the Residents' Association combined.

Border officers confiscated the year-old reptiles because they were not being transported correctly.

The Edinburgh hairdresser is jailed for eight years after he admitted having sex with four men knowing he was HIV positive.

Extra seats needed for a trending topic - BBC Sport looks at the reaction to India captain Virat Kohli joining Surrey in June.

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An appeal has gone out for help to find a mother and her five-year-old son who've been missing from Folkestone for three weeks.

Leon Kilgariff was reported missing on 15 April from the Cheriton area of the town and is believed to be with his mother, 24-year-old Shannon Palmieri.

Shannon is reported to have links to Swansea, Bristol, and Strabane and Omagh in Northern Ireland.

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Steel from Scunthorpe could be used as part of a £15bn project to expand Britain's biggest airport.

Heathrow bosses have been taken on a tour of British Steel this afternoon.

They're currently considering plans for a new runway at the London airport and to expand the capacity in its terminals.

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Seize those crocodiles, and make it snappy!

UK border officials have seized 50 crocodiles - very carefully, we imagine - being imported illegally into the UK.

The year old saltwater crocodiles were bound for a farm in Cambridgeshire, where they were to be bred for their meat.

There was a certificate in place to import them, but they were packed 10 to a box in five boxes, rather than the permitted four to a box.

Grant Miller, head of the national Border Force CITES team at Heathrow, said: "It is just not acceptable for reptiles to be transported in this way.

"The crocodiles had started to fight each other during the flight as space was limited, so little attention had been paid to their welfare."

The Home Office added that one crocodile has died "and the remaining animals are being cared for and will now be re-homed."

A man has been indefinitely detained under a hospital order for his involvement in a brutal killing.