BBC Live: Kent - As it happened

1. Our live coverage has now ended
2. Live updates on Friday 15 September

The end of another week

Bob Dale

BBC Live reporter

Thanks very much for joining us - we'll be back on Monday at 06:00 BST with more of the county's news, sport, travel and weather.

Enjoy your weekend.

Hawks help heroes

Yasmine Djadoudi

BBC Live reporter

Birds of prey are being used to help former servicemen and women overcome issues of post traumatic stress or even just cope with a return to civilian life.

Birds of prey are being used to help veterans cope with a return to civilian life.

Unearthing Thanet's lost treasures

Yasmine Djadoudi

BBC Live reporter

Margate’s mysterious caves are set to re-open after a 13-year closure.

Margate's caves could reopen after a 13-year gap

Kittens found in car engine after 300-mile trip

Yasmine Djadoudi

BBC Live reporter

An Ashford family travelling back from the Netherlands became suspicious after their car engine started purring like a kitten...three kittens in fact.

Kittens stowed away in car engine travelling from Netherlands to Berkshire

Wet, dry or windy?

Rachel Mackley

Weather Presenter, BBC South East

What's the weather got in store for us this weekend?

Here's my forecast.

the weather with Rachel Mackley

Putting the canter in Canterbury

Stuart Maisner

BBC Live reporter

Theatre sensation War Horse is galloping into Canterbury to begin its first UK tour.

Canterbury is the first leg of the play's inaugural UK tour.

Gillingham sign Starkey until January

East Kent hospital boss quits

Mark Norman

Health Correspondent, BBC South East

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The boss of a hospital trust in Kent has resigned.

Matthew Kershaw left his post as chief executive of the East Kent Hospitals Trust today.

The trust runs hospitals in Margate, Ashford, Canterbury, Dover and Folkestone.

Despite a number of improvements across the trust its A&E department is currently the worst performing emergency department in England.

Do school figures add up?

Bob Dale

BBC Live reporter

Schools across the South East have been told how their funding will be calculated by the government.

The new formula, announced today to replace that originally published in July, now includes a minimum amount for each pupil, on average £3,500 in primary schools and £4,800 in secondaries.

For East Sussex the Department for Education says those numbers are likely to be £3,723 and £4,941 per pupil.

In West Sussex it's £3,677 and £4,756 a head.

The Department for Education says the figures for Kent will be £3,724 and £4,781 per pupil.

In the South East's two unitary authorities, Brighton and Hove will receive £3,858 and £5,026 for each primary and secondary child respectively, while Medway will receive £3,807 and £5,019 a head.

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Education secretary Justine Greening

Education secretary Justine Greening says overall an extra £1.3bn has been found for schools, but opposition politicians say this isn't enough.

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Lloyd Russell-Moyle, MP for Brighton Kemptown

The majority of my schools are getting 0.9% increase. Most commentators say education inflation is at least 2%. There is no point having a fair funding formula if there's not enough money in the pot.'

Lloyd Russell-MoyleLabour MP for Brighton Kemptown

Mum calls for change in organ donation law

Kathryn Langley

BBC Live reporter

The mother of a five-month old baby who died because she needed a heart transplant is calling for the organ donation law to be changed.

Almost two million people are on the register but their family's consent is still needed before a donation.

In the last 10 years 330 people have died while waiting for a transplant in Kent, Sussex and Surrey.

Mum calls for change in organ donation law

Man charged over cancer collection tin thefts

Arrests over cancer collection tin thefts

Hamish Mureddu-Reid

BBC News Online, South East

Two people have been arrested after collection tins raising money for life-saving treatment for a teenager who has a rare form of cancer were stolen.

Kelly Turner, 17, from Dover, was diagnosed with desmoplastic small round cell tumour in 2015.

Hundreds of thousands of pounds have so far been raised in support of her family's appeal for £1m to pay for specialist treatment in the US.

Two men, aged 25 and 33, have been arrested, Kent Police said.

The 25-year-old man from Dover has been charged with theft and is due to appear before Medway magistrates later.

The 33-year-old remains in police custody.

Family handout

Commuters rule the waves

Charlotte Wright

Reporter, BBC South East

Would you rather be sitting on the dock of the bay instead of the station platform?

A new Thames clipper service is trialled between north Kent and London

Win will help daughter

Bob Dale

BBC Live reporter

Winning the lottery really will change the lives of this young couple from Maidstone, but they're not planning a spending spree.

Maidstone couple celebrate lottery win

A wave of inspiration

Yasmine Djadoudi

BBC Live reporter

Ross Andrews has built a reputation for creating giant works of art on the beaches of east Kent - huge patterns that only last as long as it takes for the tide to come in and wash them away.

Now the artist has taken his work into the sea, and inside waves as they break.

Ross Andrews' latest art project involves snapping shots of waves as they break

Trackside fire causes rail disruption