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An 11-year-old boy who lives near Sevenoaks and passed the eleven plus exam faces a 90-mile round trip to school each day after he was given a place at a grammar school in Folkestone.

Alex Chatfield, from Kemsing, near Sevenoaks, has been told his "nearest appropriate school" is The Harvey Grammar School in Folkestone.

The boys mother, Sandra said it would take her son just over two hours to get to school and another two hours to return.

"He would be able to do it if he walks to a station, takes one train, changes trains, gets a bus the other end, and has to still walk from the bus to the school," Mrs Chatfield said.

Kent County Council said the problem arose because grammar schools in west Kent were heavily subscribed.