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The toilets at a new £12 million council-run building in Maidstone are causing faces to flush, say concerned visitors.

Both men and women are feeling embarrassed and sensitive having to sit side by side in locked cubicles, with just a thin wall partition separating them at the new Kent History and Library Centre.

Complaints have been made to Kent County Council, who tell them it is not the first time the issue has been raised.

One visitor, Gillian Berry, of Courtlands, Teston, told the KM she recently went into the washroom area with her husband Mick and he was so embarrassed standing there with women and children that he walked out.

But KCC have struck back at criticism, saying unisex toilets are commonplace and the centre's facilities are clearly labelled as such.

Read this week's Kent Messenger for the full story.