A jeweller's has been targeted in an attempted robbery today - the second raid in just months.

Police were called to Andrew Smith Jewellers, in West Malling High Street, at just after 11.45am.

A witness said offenders used a sledgehammer to smash the window, but fled empty handed.

It is believed the three men, wearing balaclavas, were chased away by the shop's security guard.

He was hailed as a hero by one shopkeeper, who heard him tell the would-be robbers that they would have to get through him to get to the goods.

It is thought they took a swing at the guard, before fleeing in a car.

It is the second time the luxury retailer has been robbed in just four months.

Two masked men armed with an axe stormed the store and stole a large amount of jewellery on Friday, August 9.

A CCTV image showed a staff member threatened by a man wearing a plastic protective suit and yellow gloves before leaving in a getaway car waiting outside.