A decision on whether Maidstone's maternity unit can stay open is due from health secretary Andrew Lansley. But as the campaign to save the unit reaches the brink, we have a warning from yet another family who suffered last-minute complications that Maidstone mums must have direct access to specialists.

PLUS:

• The Floods 10 years on - how we coped, how we recovered. Eight page supplement charting the damage caused by the severe floods in 2000, and what has been done to ensure it will not happen again.
• Pride of Maidstone.Our search for the County Town's hidden heroes continues -and we need your help to find them
• Councilgives out 1,233littering fines - most of them to smokers who dropped butts in the street
• Interview with X Factor star Danyl Johnson, who performs in Maidstone tonight (Friday)
• The Jack Treeby murder trial begins in Maidstone
• Newsagents say KCC's £65 tax on advertising boards is a threat to their business

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