HEALTH inspectors have discovered poor standards of food hygiene and kitchen practice in many restaurants and pubs in a Kent city.

The findings for Canterbury are revealed in the Food Standard Agency's "scores on the doors" scheme in which the results of inspections are made public.

Each establishment visited by environmental health officers is rated from no stars, for very poor, to five stars for excellent.

The latest results published on Canterbury council's website show that three restaurants and a village pub scored nought while 17 other premises have only one star.

So far only around 25 per cent of restaurants have been rated.

For full story, see this week's Kentish Gazette.