A selfless swimmer collapsed and died through the sheer strain of swimming the Channel from Kent, an inquest's heard.

A man who suffered from depression died after turning himself into a human fireball and then asking shocked residents to ring the emergency services.

A coroner has been officially reprimanded after a teenager's family complained it took her more than five years to complete an inquest into his death.

Former BMW motorsport chief Karl-Heinz Kalbfell died as a result of an accident at Brands Hatch, a coroner has ruled.

The death of an American airman who fell onto train tracks in Kent was an accident, a coroner has ruled.

Staff Sergeant Ryan Austin died after he fell on to the live track at Maidstone East train station

A four-day-old baby who suffered a "catastrophic and extremely rare" brain injury at birth died as a result of misadventure, an inquest has ruled.

A doctor told an inquest of his 'desperate' attempts to arrange an ambulance to transfer a critically ill four-day-old baby.

A two-day inquest into the tragic death of a four-day-old baby is being heard today.

A 35-year-old who died after been struck by a train just before Christmas has been identified as a former pub manageress.

A council worker battling depression whose drug-taking spiralled out of control probably died after taking heroin for the first time, a coroner heard.

A man found hanging from a footbridge has been named as an inquest is opened into his death.

A former tailor who had boasted Frank Sinatra among his clients died when doctors failed to spot a clot on his brain, an inquest's heard.

An inquest into the death of a man found hanging from a footbridge in Maidstone has opened.

A devastated widower escaped from a secure dementia ward and was walking to the final resting place of his beloved wife when he was killed by a lorry.

A family will never know how a popular school maintenance worker came to die in a car park behind a town centre pub.

A man was just inches away from help when he died after becoming stuck in a small space between two walls, an inquest has heard.

A man found dead on Dartford Heath had just keys, a lighter, tissues and 27p on him, an inquest's heard.

The owner of a popular restaurant facing bankruptcy was found hanged the day after he promised his girlfriend he would get his life under control.

A mother remains convinced her son died from taking a legal high after a post-mortem showed he did not have any traces of illegal drugs in his system.