A suspect package has sparked a security alert at Dungeness Power Station this afternoon.

Police were called to the Romney Marsh site when the alarm was raised at about 1pm.

An emergency control centre was quickly set up by the nuclear power station staff.

Rumour had spread to nearby New Romney, where some staff and their families live, that the package might have been a bomb.

But when officers arrived, the package was discovered to be a webcam.

Dungeness B is owned and operated by EDF Energy and contains two reactors, which have been generating electricity since 1984.

An EDF spokesman said its emergency response is regularly tested to ensure it runs smoothly, adding that "fortunately it turned out to be nothing".