A Costa Coffee has reopened after a car ploughed into its front window, killing a 74-year-old woman on Christmas Eve.

Staff and members of the public marked the reopening of the Westerham branch yesterday with a minute silence in memory of Valerie Deakin.

The mother-of-two was sitting in the shop's window with her daughter and best friend when a black Audi, driven by an 88-year-old man, crashed through the glass.

Mrs Deakin, from Udimore, East Sussex was pronounce dead at the scene.

The elderly driver, his passenger and three others were seriously injured.

The Kent Police Serious Collision Investigation Unit is still working to establish whether the horrific accident was caused by mechanical or human error.