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New-born babies in a Kent hospital are being electronically tagged to prevent them being abducted from maternity wards.

Medway Maritime Hospital is one of the first to use the system and installed it last week.

The system uses an electronic tag attached to the baby's ankle, allowing the whereabouts of the baby to be monitored on a control panel.

Alarms sound and doors are sealed if the child is taken outside the maternity area.