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Diabetes UK is warning that a quarter of people in West Kent cold unknowingly have Type 2 diabetes.

Thousands are going undiagnosed in the area according to the chairty because so few are offered NHS health checks by their doctors.

Just 5% of patients, fewer than 12,000 people, are getting checked. That figure is well below the national average and ministers believe tens of thousands of lives and millions of pounds could be saved each years if health problems were spotted earlier.

Nikki Joule, Senior Policy Officer at Diabetes UK and Andrew Scott-Clark from NHS Kent and Medway share their concerns at the latest figures (07.08).

Dr. Howard Stoate, a GP in Bexley who sat on the Health Select Committee when Dartford MP, gives John and Clare his expert opinion (08.08).

Also on the programme, flights from Kent to Amsterdam could be in place as early as next spring.

The owners of Manston say dutch based airline KLM is considering flying twice a day from the airport.

With flying times of just 40 minutes - it could give passengers a gateway to destinations around the world.

We hear on how likely it is that Kent will see commercial flights once more with Sevenoaks aviation journalist Tony Holmes and Phil Rose, founder of campaign group 'No Night Flights' (07.23).

Charles Buchanan, Chief Executive of Manston, says it is a major opportunity for both Manston and Schiphol airports (06.24).

And all mail in Kent now goes through a state-of-the-art sorting office in the Medway towns.

It has just been officially opened at a cost of 拢70million and is one of the biggest in the country.

Capable of sorting up to 45,000 items an hour, the site on the banks of the River Medway replaces sorting centres in Canterbury, Dartford, Tonbridge and Gravesend.

Our reporter Jo Burn went to find out how it all works (06.53).

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