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Otters yet to reach Kent

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Otters have bounced back from the brink of extinction - but not in Kent.

The Environment Agency says the elusive mammals are now found everywhere except our county.

Otter numbers tumbled in the middle of the last century - and they'd almost vanished by the 1970s.

But conservation projects - and an improvement in the water quality of rivers - means numbers have grown rapidly.

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