Friends and family will gather tonight to pay tribute to a loving father who died after falling at the Maidstone TV Studios last week.

Justin Newitt was working at the site in New Cut Road, Grove Green when he fell from scaffolding last Wednesday.

The 38-year-olds family will hold a balloon and lantern launch tonight at 7pm to pay tribute to him.

It's hoped hundreds of his friends will join them in the York Road entrance of Mote Park, at the junction with South Park Road and York Road, Maidstone to remember the father-of-two.

Emergency services were scrambled to the scene last week but despite best efforts Justin was pronounced dead at King's College Hospital later that day.

His fiancée Jemma Webb led tributes on social media, she said: "Today I've lost the most amazing man I've ever met! My life, my soulmate, my future."

Ms Webb, whose profile picture shows the happy couple together, also talks of their plans to get married.

Last week, Kent Police and the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) launched an investigation into the cause of the accident.

A police spokesman said the probe was to establish if there was any criminal wrongdoing behind the tragic fall.

His nephew, Curtis Carreras was working with Mr Newitt at the time of the incident. He said: "It was only this morning I was working with you and within a second you were gone.

Speaking after the fall, a spokesman for the studios said: “It is with considerable sadness that Maidstone Studios can confirm that one of our employees, Justin Newitt, was tragically involved in a fatal accident whilst at work on September 23, 2015.

“We would like to extend our sincerest condolences to Justin’s family, friends and colleagues at this time.

“Maidstone Studios would also like to confirm that we are co-operating fully with the relevant authorities in their on-going investigation”

His family have also set up a JustGiving page in his memory. You can donate here.