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Campaigners are celebrating a "heritage rescue" after buying part of a 19th Century Kent dockyard for almost £2m.

The four-acre site in Sheerness, which contains 10 listed buildings, had been earmarked for flats by developers last year, but the plans were turned down.

The dockyard has been on English Heritage's national at risk register for almost 10 years, and in 2009 it was added to the World Monuments Fund's international Watch List of endangered historic sites.