Patients are being forced to wait for hours for emergency treatment - with two enduring a wait of more than 12 hours.

A troubled private ambulance operator has withdrawn its bid to continue to run its service in Kent.

A restaurant was cleared of customers after a rat was spotted running across the floor.

Come rain or shine 83-year-old Denis Judd has had no choice but to wear slippers for nearly two years.

Medway MPs are calling for urgent meeting to save treasured mental health centre

A mum was left in tears after secretly recording a nurse and a patient calling her 'horrendous' and 'nasty' behind her back while she was in hospital.

A mum has made a desperate plea for information about her missing son, after her husband became seriously ill.

A terrified four-year-old Facetimed his grandmother from under a duvet after being left home alone to play violent computer games.

Emergency services were alerted this afternoon after reports of a distressed man on top of a shop in Gillingham.

Dover MP says death of Britain's heaviest man, Carl Thompson should act as a warning, as figures reveal Dover has highest rate of overweight children.

As pressure grows for hospitals to provide free staff parking, we can reveal staff at one Kent trust pay £1.5 million for the privilege.

A busy GPs' practice has been judged inadequate over failings to care effectively for people with long term conditions and poor safety checks.

A Kent care home which only opened last year is celebrating after being commended by a health watchdog.

Actor Philip Goldacre, who lost half his leg to a deadly disease, is warning others of the dangers as he faces his toughest role.

A heart condition may have caused an 86-year-old motorbike enthusiast to pass out moments before a fatal crash, an inquest heard.

A secondary school has issued a warning to parents after a pupil was diagnosed with rubella.

A cat is lucky to be alive after travelling several miles in the engine of a Mazda.

A breakthrough test for Down's syndrome is being trialled at a Kent hospital.

A puppy's skull was almost crushed when it was attacked by a "Staffordshire bull terrier".

A brave eight-year-old has been welcomed back to school by her classmates, just months after undergoing a life-saving heart transplant.