An appeal has been launched to raise £50,000 for an operation which will allow a five-year-old boy with cerebral palsy to run around with his friends.

Over the past three years, Childline has seen a 25% increase in the number of counselling sessions about online sexual abuse.

A councillor tearfully told of her mother’s painful death as she called on more to be done to improve end-of-life care.

The father of a nine-year-old boy born with club feet says all their Christmases have come at once after raising enough to get the wheelchair he needs

The ambulance service wants people to only dial 999 in the worst cases as crews struggle to cope with demand.

Just weeks ago teenager Michael Crayford was critically ill in hospital with a brain tumour and his parents feared he wouldn’t make it to Christmas.

WATCH: The family of a little girl who wrote to Santa asking him to help her walk have released a special Christmas video thanking those who helped.

A young family say they are afraid to leave their house after thieves “turned it upside down” and stole their Christmas presents.

A man has been arrested on suspicion of drug-driving as a woman fights for her life in hospital following an alleged hit and run.

A young dad who collapsed and died in a quiet Canterbury cul de sac was expecting his second child.

While the murder of Daniel Whitworth is recent news to many, this Christmas is the third his family face without their beloved boy.

A Christmas card appeal for a very sick youngster has had a massive response, with people sending messages from across Kent and overseas.

With more than 12,000 calls on Christmas Day and rising suicide numbers, Samaritans are calling for a focus on people and not presents.

An abortion provider is being accused of putting women at risk through poor staff training, and failing to get proper consent.

A private hospital has thrown its aspirations of breaking even next year out the window as it made significant losses despite growing patient numbers.

Christmas has come early for bosses at a troubled NHS trust as hospital inspectors flag up improvements.

The body of a man has been found in a van.

Emergency services were called to the scene of a five-car crash that closed a major route this evening.

Hospital chiefs have turned around years of instability at the top without paying “eye-wateringly high" salaries to temporary directors.

Some NHS treatments will be axed and non-urgent surgical procedures restricted as part of a bid to £3.6m by the end of the financial year.