POLICE have identified a 42-year-old man who died in a van fire on a Kent farm at the weekend.

The body of Andrew Bell was found by firefighters after they had dealt with the blaze in an orchard at Flightshott Farm in Spout Lane, Brenchley, near Tonbridge, in the early hours of Sunday morning.

An inquest into the death of Mr Bell, who lived in Howland Lane, Marden, has been opened and adjourned.