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Plans to treat private patients at Maidstone hospital could lead to NHS patients losing out, according to the British Medical Association.

The 鲍鱼tv's Inside Out programme has learned that there are plans to open a private unit at Maidstone, which is along similar lines to the one already open at the new Tunbridge Wells hospital.

The route the Olympic Torch will take on its way to London 2012 has been announced, with Kent playing a prominent role.

In fact, the county's got more stops en-route than anywhere else in the country.

It is bound to pass through a town or village near you sometime during the four days it is in our county, between Tuesday 17th and Friday 20th of July.

Two hundred years after his birth, Charles Dickens, who lived in Kent, is still revered as one of literature's greatest wordsmiths, and a museum in his former London home is reopening this week.

The novelist came to live in Chatham at the age of five, along with his family, and he moved back to the county after finding fame and fortune, spending his last thirteen years at Gads Hill Place in Rochester.