The new high dependency nursery at Medway Maritime Hospital’s Special Care Baby Unit was officially opened this week.

A sculpture of a heart that "beats" when visitors turn a handle is designed to make people proud of their home town.

A little girl has been struck with a mystery illness that means she is left in agony at the slightest noise - and even when it rains.

A special safety watch which detects the whereabouts of dementia patients is being piloted in Medway.

Ambulance crews were called to a town centre pay and display after a man in his 70s collapsed and suffered a heart attack.

Nearly 100 people are spending three days fundraising in aid of Myeloma UK after a close friend was diagnosed with the disease.

A Kent care provider has become the first in the county to have its services rated outstanding following an unannounced inspection.

A walk in a country park turned into an emergency dash to the vets when a labrador was bitten on the face by a snake.

A man - who was believed to be "playing dead" when was found unresponsive - died after taking a fatal morphine overdose, an inquest heard.

An 84-year-old dementia sufferer had a "miraculous" escape when a lorry ploughed into a broken-down car.

A young woman who was the first person in the UK to receive stem cell treatment for cystic fibrosis is fundraising again for life-saving surgery.

North Thanet MP calls "mega hospital" proposal "a pipe dream that will go up in smoke".

Dr Rachel Tullet, 34, from Cranbrook, was stationed at Everest base camp when an avalanche struck.

A family-of-five were asleep when their dishwasher caught alight at their Tonbridge home.

Despite having one of the highest rates of obesity in Kent, few people in Swale have undergone gastric band procedures.

Shopmobilty, a motorised scooter service in Maidstone, is likely to stop unless someone offers to take over.

A pledge to provide a direct bus route between clinics and create a one-stop shop for outpatients has not been fulfilled, according to patients.

Once ranked one of the worst performing A&E departments in the country, Medway Maritime Hospital is now hitting national targets.

A teenager has admitted robbing two youngsters for their phones, leaving one of them scarred for life and needing stitches.

Two seven-year-olds whose lives have been dramatically affected by coeliac disease and food intolerances are trying to raise money and awareness.