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A 17-year-old girl who attended a drum and bass festival at Dreamland died after taking ecstasy which she may have bought in Kent days earlier, an inquest has heard. Emily Stokes collapsed at the Margate amusement park’s Worried About Henry event on June 29 before being taken to the QEQM Hospital in the town where she later died. She became seriously unwell on the same evening 21 other teenagers at the same gig were admitted to hospital with drug-related symptoms on June 29. Opening the inquest at Oakwood House, Maidstone, on Friday a coroner said Emily died from MDMA toxicity – the active com…

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