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There has been a significant increase in the number of people catching measles in Kent. Up to the end of July there were 62 cases reported here, compared with just six for the whole of last year.

Health experts say students returning to university and college this week face increased exposure to the virus.

Cases have increased because of the drop in immunisation following the MMR controversy.

Nurses are there to care for us and help make us better, so it is hard to imagine why anyone would want to hurt them.

And yet hundreds of staff working in hospitals in Kent were assaulted last year, despite crackdowns and zero-tolerance policies.

麻豆约拍 Radio Kent has obtained figures showing the county's four hospital trusts logged more than 650 incidents last year.

This ranges from staff being attacked by drunks in A&E to patients with dementia lashing out at their carers.

Gravesend is often in the headlines as being the hottest place in Britain. And today is set to be another scorcher with temperatures expected to get up to 29 degrees.

It is not necessarily because it is hotter in Gravesend than anywhere else, it's because the Met Office's thermometer is there.

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