A group of travellers have set up their vehicles on a field on a hospital site this afternoon.

The group turned up earlier today and began setting their caravans on a field near Darent Valley Hospital, in Darenth Wood Road, Dartford.

It is thought they gained entry to the field by cutting through a fence.

Phillip Marvell tweeted a picture of one caravan being driven onto the site and said police had arrived at the scene.

A police spokesman confirmed the travellers' arrival: "Kent Police was called at 1.42pm on 17 August 2018 to a report of a traveller incursion near Gore Road, Dartford.

"The matter has been passed to the landowner as is the normal process for these matters.

"Kent Police will continue to offer support to the landowner where required."