A search for a potential suicidal man has been called off after he turned up safe and well at his home in Hampshire.

Around a dozen police officers and PCSOs combed Maidstone town centre early this morning after the man made several phone calls threatening to take his life.

He told police he intended to jump off the bridge at Maidstone East rail station. There is no bridge at the station, but there is one nearby.

Police searched from Palace Avenue through Market Buildings to the station and beyond in an attempt to identify the caller before he harmed himself.

Sergeant Stefan Martin who was co-ordinating the search said: "The man was not known to us. He was from outside the area. The calls were made to another police force who relayed them to us in Maidstone.

"But the last call he made came from a phone box in Week Street."