Bob Dale
BBC Live reporter

A pre-winter blitz on Kent's potholes has come too late for one motorist.

Yasmine Djadoudi
BBC Live reporter

This girl's joints dislocate more than 40 times a day.

Yasmine Djadoudi
BBC Live reporter

Queen guitarist Brian May has visited school children to tell them why hedgehogs should be protected.

Rachel Mackley
Weather Presenter, BBC South East

After a wet start on Friday, the afternoon will clear up.

But watch out for more rain on Sunday.

Here's my forecast.

Mary-Ann Ochota discovers the story of the Thames sailing barge.

Helen Catt
Political editor, BBC South East

Ahead of the Conservative Party conference in Manchester, we spoke to Prime Minister Theresa May about elections, the economy and rail strikes.

The leader of a Conservative-controlled authority calls on the government to ease austerity measures.

Meet Jimmy Lawrence, one of the last men to skipper a working Thames Barge.

Stuart Maisner
BBC Live reporter

Meet the 12-year-old who's just displayed his photography in an exhibition for the very first time.

Jamie Horton from Margate is the latest in our series meeting our #PhotoOfTheDay regulars.

Nottinghamshire are promoted to Division One of the County Championship after securing the draw they required against Sussex.

Sussex all-rounder Jofra Archer signs a new contract to stay with the county until the end of the 2020 season.

Bob Dale
BBC Live reporter

As Kent County Council tries to save another £75m from its annual budget, its leader tells the Prime Minister that austerity is pushing local government finances to breaking point.

Olympic champion Dame Kelly Holmes has spoken of how she self-harmed as she struggled to overcome injuries she thought would end her career.

Dame Kelly, who lives in Kent, won gold in the 800m and 1,500m competitions in Athens in 2004.

She said just a year earlier she was "cutting" herself regularly "to release the anguish" she experienced.

Dame Kelly said: "At my lowest, I was cutting myself with scissors every day that I was injured."

Read more here.

Ryanair confirms its Belfast-to-Gatwick service is one of 34 being suspended from November.

Stuart Maisner
BBC Live reporter

Britain's largest ever batch of watermelons has been produced at a farm in Kent.

Lizzie Massey
BBC Live reporter

The leader of Kent County Council is making an urgent plea for the government to provide extra funding to help ease austerity measures.

Paul Carter said essential front line services could be cut next year.

He said local government had already done its "fair share" of efficiency savings, and the council is being stretched so far that it was "getting very close to the elastic breaking".

The council is expected to make around £75m of savings next year, out of a £900m budget. While many savings are already accounted for, the last £15-20m is a struggle he is hoping the government will help with.

Speaking to BBC South East he said without additional funding, decisions on further cuts were "unpalatable".

He would not reveal which frontline services could face cuts to avoid "public panic".

A Government spokesman said: "We need to live within our means as a country. We need to ensure we have a balanced economy dealing with our debts to keep the economy strong but also keeping taxes low for working people. We are also continuing to invest in our public services with record levels of investment into the NHS and schools.

“Kent Council’s core spending power is increasing by 4.7% over four years, and it will have access to £3.6 billion as a result of the funding package we have made available up to 2020. This will allow them to deliver the services that local people want."

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The number of looked after children adopted in England has fallen for the second year in a row, despite a rise in the number in care.

There were 72,670 children in care as of March 2017, 2,220 more than the year before.

In the same year, 4,350 children were adopted from care, down from 5,460 two years earlier.

Charity Adoption UK said the number of children needing a home would outnumber those offering to provide one.

Bob Dale
BBC Live reporter

These young people, who are facing serious illness or bereavement, are learning to cope and grow with the help of a breast cancer survivor.

Stuart Maisner
BBC Live reporter

Meet the former policeman with a rare neuromuscular disease who's now an award-winning amateur photographer.

Scott Sinden is the latest to appear in our series meeting our #PhotoOfTheDay regulars.

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