Podcast: American Akita dog to be put down after biting a woman’s hand in Gillingham Park

A dog is set to be put down after biting a woman in a Medway park.

The victim was walking her own dog in Gillingham Park in April 2022 when she went to stroke the American Akita called Boris.

The pet bit her hand, leaving a large wound which needed hospital treatment and took six weeks to heal.

Also in today’s podcast, an emergency service instructor from Kent has been telling the podcast how he spent three days digging for survivors after a landslide wiped out a village in Bosnia.

Chris Kendall and his team were there to deliver training when the landslide happened in October.

There’s anger at a decision to scrap a degree in English Literature at a university in Kent.

The course will no longer run at Canterbury Christ Church after bosses noticed a ‘significant decline’ in the number of students choosing it.

Two shoppers who were dressed up for Halloween have been kicked out of Bluewater, for not being “suitably dressed”.

Comedy actors Chris Cole and Paul Fox say they were escorted off the premises after turning up dressed as a devil and vampire.

It’s emerged that all of the companies wanting to buy a Kent leisure centre plan to re-open it.

Folkestone Sports Centre closed suddenly in the summer after the trust running it said they could no longer afford to. 

And, there are concerns in Medway that an increase in how much companies can charge for bus fares, will put more of us off using them.

The government confirmed in last week’s budget the price cap can increase by 50 percent from £2 to £3.