A pensioner was taken to hospital yesterday after falling and injuring his head in Great Chart.

Emergency services, including the Air Ambulance, were called at around 8.50am to a report that an 89-year-old man had fallen.

The Kent, Surrey and Sussex Air Ambulance landed in the grounds of the Great Chart Cricket Club, in Godinton Park.

The man suffered a head injury and was taken to the William Harvey Hospital by land ambulance, assisted by the crew from the air ambulance.