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A look back at 2008 - January

KentOnline reporter
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13:58, 23 December 2008
Brigitte Hawley, of Halden Lane, Benenden, designed and knitted "deluxe chux-tux" jumpers to warm featherless former battery chickens. Picture: John WesthropHeavy rain and overflowing rivers led to flooding in Maidstone town centre and in surrounding villages, including Yalding, Staplehurst, East Farleigh, Marden and Headcorn. Picture: John WardleyLouise McGoochan, of Station Road, Ditton, donated a kidney to her father, Jim, 69, to give him a new lease of life. Picture: Grant FalveyScout Stephen Young, 16, a member of the Quintain Explorer Unit, Borough Green, celebrated sleeping in his own bed after camping out in his garden in Wrotham Road, Borough Green, every night in 2007 to raise money for Demelza House children's hospice. Stephen, a pupil at Maidstone Grammar School for Girls, won a place in the final of Britain's Most Inspiring Fundraiser. Picture: Grant Falvey

How well do you remember 2008?

Look back at the year with the help of our reporters and photographers.

We start today with January.

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