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Kent County Council admits to asylum seeker children going missing in its care

John and Clare with the latest news, travel, and weather, plus stories from around Kent.

Kent County Council has admitted that some asylum seeker children and young adults in its care are going missing and are ending up with gangs of human traffickers.

New figures revealed to Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio Kent show that since March, one quarter of the 105 unaccompanied minors being looked after by the council have disappeared.

It says it has seen an increase in the number of children and young adults from China and Vietnam which the council believes are smuggled here to work in the sex industry.

The authority has now teamed up with the charity Barnado's to give specialist training to foster carers who look after people who are likely to be trafficked.

Beaches are a key part of our tourism industry. But how clean is the water we swim in? Tonight, the Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ's Inside Out programme will reveal the extent to which human sewage is being pumped into our seas and rivers. At one treatment works, Swalecliffe near Tankerton, raw sewage was discharged for the equivalent of around five weeks.

Today marks the 50th anniversary of when Mick met Keith. The chance encounter which led to the formation of one of the biggest bands of all time happened at Dartford train station.

On the morning of 17 October 1961, Mick Jagger was waiting on platform two of Dartford Station to travel to the London School of Economics. Keith Richards arrived on the platform, on his way to Sidcup Art College, carrying his hollow-bodied Höfner cutaway electric guitar.

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