This week on the KM Community podcast, community reporter Oliver Kemp sat down with Tanya Long, director of Samphire, to discuss her mission to integrate Dover’s migrant communities.
More funding is being put into stopping children and teenagers in Kent getting involved with gangs.Thanks to the Police and Crime Commissioner Matthew Scott, thousands more young people will get to hear from a reformed gang member Francis Osei-Appiah – who’s warning them not to make the same mistakes that put him in jail.Also in today’s episode a charity’s starting new sessions to tackle social isolation and loneliness, and dozens of parks in Kent have been named as some of the best in the country.
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We’ve been catching up with a teacher who spent more than a month in a coma after contracting meningitis and sepsis.Greg Keating initially thought he had flu when he became ill in January last year but ended up having both of his legs and nine of his fingers amputated.Also in today’s episode, figures reveal the areas in Kent with some of the highest smoking rates in Britain, and a new exhibition aims to challenge perceptions of homelessness.
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The two men hoping to become our next Prime Minister have played down the impact a no-deal Brexit could have on Kent.Boris Johnson and Jeremy Hunt were in Maidstone last night answering questions from Conservative party members on everything from policing to tax cuts – and of course the UK’s departure from the EU.Also in today’s episode we speak to campaigners against a new housing development as they take a petition to Downing Street; with a year to go until The Open comes to Kent we’ve been taking a look at preparations, and cyclists set off on a 150-mile journey to raise money for the Royal British Legion Industries.
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There’s more criticism for Disney today after they turned down a request from a Kent family to use an image of Spider-Man on the gravestone of a four year-old boy…More than 12-thousand people have now signed a petition calling on the film giant to reconsider, after Ollie Jones from Maidstone – who a big fan of the superhero – passed away in December from a rare genetic disease.Also in today’s episode, as the battle to become the next Prime Minister heats up we’ve been looking ahead to tonight’s hustings meeting in Maidstone, a woman is sentenced for running an illegal waste site, and a children’s author says children shouldn’t be branded ‘failures’ if they don’t achieve academically at school.
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An inquest into the death of a young man who was stabbed in Cyprus three years ago has ruled he was unlawfully killed.George Low was on holiday in Ayia Napa with a friend when a fight broke out leaving both men with stab wounds, but the 22-year-old didn’t survive.Despite two men being identified as suspects and now thought to be in Turkey, no one’s ever been brought to justice.Also in today’s episode we find out more about plans to introduce a congestion charge in Maidstone and have reaction from Prince Charles’ visit to Folkestone.
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For the first time, all year 8 boys in Kent are going to be offered the HPV vaccine to help protect them against some forms of cancer.Girls have been given the jab since 2008 in a bid to reduce the number of cases of cervical cancer caused by the virus, and now experts say 12 and 13 year-old boys should have it too.Also in today’s episode we’ve been looking ahead to the Medway Youth Awards and getting an update on work to create what’s thought to be the world’s first triple deck stake park in Folkestone.
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A Kent MP says whoever leaked sensitive diplomatic messages from the British ambassador in America should face prosecution.
The memos revealed Sir Kim Darroch described the Trump administration as “inept.”
The US President says the diplomat has “not served the UK well.”
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It’s feared county lines gangs could be partly to blame for recent attacks on police in Kent.
Earlier this week we told you how 11 officers were hurt in just three days from last Friday.
Raids have also been taking place across the county recently to try and disrupt groups who’re coming here to deal drugs.
A Folkestone woman’s calling for the law on assisted dying to change after her husband ended his life at Dignitas.Sandra Barclay travelled to a clinic in Switzerland with 65 year-old Andrew in 2016.
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