A BRIDE from Kent is suffering from Legionnaire's disease after honeymooning in the area of the latest outbreak.

Kirsty-Ann Smith, 30, from High Halstow, near Rochester, and her husband Jonathan had been at a hotel close to the building in Barrow-in-Furness suspected as the source of illness.

This is the biggest outbreak in Britain for a decade. Two people have died so far. The second victim, a 50-year-old woman, died during on Thursday night.

Mrs Smith fell ill days after she returned home and was admitted to Medway Maritime Hospital on Wednesday evening. She remained there last night.

Her mother, Sylvia Gillen, of Bells Lane, Hoo, near Rochester, said: "It is a terrible thing to happen just after she got married. She was just in the wrong place at the wrong time. But she is young and healthy so we are not unduly worried and she is now in the best possible place."

Mrs Smith, a carer at the Friston House Nursing Home in City Way, Rochester, married her 29-year-old husband at Hoo St Werburgh Church on July 27.