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Kent's first academy school is failing its pupils. That is what the education watchdog Ofsted says about the Marlowe Academy in Ramsgate.

The Academy, which opened in 2005 and cost 拢30m, has been branded inadequate, and put into special measures.

Prison reformers are criticising plans to increase the size of Cookham Wood Young Offenders Institute by nearly two thirds.

The centre, near Rochester, is to have its capacity increased from 131 to 208. But one of the country's leading reform groups says the government should be looking at more alternatives to locking up young offenders.

Researchers say councils in Kent are not doing enough to tackle tenancy fraud - where homes in the social housing sector are sub-let at a profit.

Sixteen cases of the crime were detected in the county last year. But the credit reference agency Call Credit says 90% of cases are going undetected.

Its findings come after the government announced it was making it a criminal offence to sub-let a council house.

The government is making 拢19m available to councils to ensure council homes go to those who need them most, and to fund a team of experts to help landlords.