A Thanet town has been named as one of the hippest places to live in the country.

The Times newspaper has crowned Margate the fourth coolest town because of attractions such as Turner Contemporary and Dreamland.

It also says that Margate had the hottest housing market outside London in 2015.

The article said: "Margate, with its Turner Contemporary gallery and revamped amusement park, Dreamland, has started something on the east Kent and East Sussex coast.

"Trendy Londoners are pervading Folkestone, Ramsgate, Rye, Hastings, St Leonards and Hythe, not far from Dungeness and the film-maker Derek Jarman's former cottage.

"Margate was the hot market outside London in 2015, says Rightmove, with a 24 per cent rise."

Top of the list was Finnieston in Glasgow.