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John Warnett and Steve Ladner with the latest news, travel, and weather, plus stories from around Kent.

A Kent woman who left her 6 year-old child home alone for nearly five days has been sentenced to 18 months in prison.

28-year-old Natalie Terry, previously of Willow Road, Dartford, appeared at Maidstone Crown Court on January 12 charged with one count of child neglect and one count of failing to surrender to police, both of which she admitted.

We speak to Chris Mills, a former advisor to a national children's charity (07.06) and Claude Knights, director of children's charity Kidscape (08.07).

Also on the programme, do you take painkillers prescribed by your doctor? If so you're one of a growing number of patients in Kent who are on the drugs.

Doctors in East Kent are among the highest spenders on painkillers in the country.

We chat to Alison Issett, Associate Director of Medicines Management for NHS Kent and Medway and Dr. Julian Spinks, a GP from Strood (07.17).

We also speak to Tracey Crouch, MP for Chatham and Aylesford, who calls for the government to look at ways of restricting certain painkillers sold on the internet, and David Grieve, who runs a support group for addiction to painkillers (08.22).

And Ernestas Griksas from Chatham spotted something spooky in a photo he took from his bedroom. Was it a UFO? Or was there a more logical explanation?

We hear from the man himself (08.53) and get the expert opinion from Nick Pope (07.48).

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