VANDALS have attacked two safety cameras on a busy stretch of road where a young girl and her grandmother were killed.

The two cameras, one in each direction near the Jade Crossing on the A249 Detling Hill, Detling, were burnt out on Tuesday.

They were installed after a campaign by the Hobbs family to improve safety after eight-year-old Jade Hobbs and her grandmother died on the road in December 2000.

Chris Rogers from the Kent and Medway Safety Camera Partnership said: "These cameras are there to save people's lives and anyone who jeopardises road safety in this way is going to be putting people's lives at risk."

* FOR THE FULL STORY, INCLUDING REACTION FROM THE HOBBS FAMILY, SEE FRIDAY'S KENT MESSENGER.