A 35-year-old who died after been struck by a train just before Christmas has been identified as a former pub manageress.

A council worker battling depression whose drug-taking spiralled out of control probably died after taking heroin for the first time, a coroner heard.

A man found hanging from a footbridge has been named as an inquest is opened into his death.

A former tailor who had boasted Frank Sinatra among his clients died when doctors failed to spot a clot on his brain, an inquest's heard.

An inquest into the death of a man found hanging from a footbridge in Maidstone has opened.

A devastated widower escaped from a secure dementia ward and was walking to the final resting place of his beloved wife when he was killed by a lorry.

A family will never know how a popular school maintenance worker came to die in a car park behind a town centre pub.

A man was just inches away from help when he died after becoming stuck in a small space between two walls, an inquest has heard.

A man found dead on Dartford Heath had just keys, a lighter, tissues and 27p on him, an inquest's heard.

The owner of a popular restaurant facing bankruptcy was found hanged the day after he promised his girlfriend he would get his life under control.

A mother remains convinced her son died from taking a legal high after a post-mortem showed he did not have any traces of illegal drugs in his system.

A man has relived the moment his best friend showed him the bridge where he planned to kill himself - before ploughing his car into it at high speed.

A stunned driver has told an inquest how she saw a motorbike "aquaplaning" along a road after the young rider was thrown off in a mystery crash.

A mother recovering from alcoholism was killed by the hooves of a large horse just hours after discharging herself from hospital, it has emerged.

A man took his own life by jumping from the QEII Bridge while being investigated for a robbery involving goods worth millions, a coroner has heard.

A young driver who killed himself and his teenage passenger in a crash was almost three times the drink limit.

An inquest into the death of a teacher whose badly-burned body was found in a desert has been opened today - but how she died remains a mystery.

Staff at Maidstone Hospital told the parents of a fitting newborn baby that she had hiccups, an inquest heard.

The family of a man who plunged a knife into his own heart say they will never forgive his girlfriend for leaving him for dead.

A young soldier killed by a single shot that went through a target in a training exercise died in a tragic accident, an inquest jury has ruled.