A BRIDE from Kent struck down by suspected Legionnaire's disease is now on the mend and out of hospital.

Kirsty-Ann Smith picked up a virus while on honeymoon in the Lake District which included a trip to the affected town of Barrow-in-Furness where two people have died.

She was taken ill after returning home to Harrison Drive, High Halstow, near Rochester, with husband Jonathan, 29. Mrs Smith, 30, who married at Hoo on July 27, spent two days in Medway Maritime Hospital before being discharged.

Her father, Dennis Gillan, of Bells Lane, Hoo, said: "It is a tremendous relief for us that she is on the mend. The doctors said she had a strand called legionella but they were undergoing tests to find out whether it was full-blow Legionnaire's Disease. It will be another two weeks before we find out and she is still on medication."

During their honeymoon Mr and Ms Smith travelled to Barrow and stayed at the Imperial Hotel, which is behind the building suspected to be the source of the outbreak, the Forum 28 arts and civic centre.