A man in his 60s collapsed in a town centre and was rushed to hospital with a head injury yesterday afternoon.

The ambulance service was called to Sandgate Road in Folkestone at 4.45pm sending two vehicles to the scene.

Rich Airey, an ambulance spokesman, said: “He did have loss of consciousness after our arrival but he was conscious when he was taken to the William Harvey Hospital.

“He was taken as a priority.”