A man has been taken to hospital by air ambulance after being stabbed in Gravesend.

Police were called at 2.35pm to a report that a man had attended Gravesham Community Hospital in Bath Street, suffering from an injury consistent with a knife wound.

The air ambulance later landed near Mayfield Grammar School, from where the man was taken to a London hospital.

A person known to the victim has been arrested and taken into custody.