A former Dartford council worker who swindled her employer out of almost half a million pounds while in charge of housing benefit payments has been spared jail.
A court’s been told how the 44-year-old set up fake claims in the names of people she knew, and fraudulently received £493,000 over a nine-year period.
Also in today’s podcast, a man who stabbed a stranger in Chatham while on day release from a psychiatric hospital has been convicted of attempted murder.
Ray Chirisa, 34, had been reported missing from the Trevor Gibbens Unit in Maidstone just 30 minutes before the attack happened on The Brook in October last year.
The Chancellor’s been at the Dartford Crossing to announce plans to limit the number of court challenges that can be brought against major infrastructure projects.
Rachel Reeves also wants to speed up the time judicial reviews take by six months so builders can get spades in the ground more quickly.
Rochester Cathedral will be lit up blue and pink tonight as baby loss awareness week comes to an end.
A ‘wave of light’ event will be happening so bereaved parents and wider family can light candles. Hear from Keeley Lengthorn who is an ambassador for Kent baby loss charity Abigail’s Footsteps.
A community farm on Sheppey visited by children with special educational needs has been given permission to open as an independent school.
Curly’s Farm covers 10 acres of land in Leysdown and can now be an alternative provision for young people with an EHCP – we’ve been speaking to founder Kyle Ratcliffe.
The Kent man who came up with Morph and designed the Blue Peter Badge would have been 100 today.
Artist Tony Hart grew up in Maidstone and studied in the town before presenting children’s TV programmes Take Hart and Hart Beat.
Now an exhibition of his work has gone on show at the Creative Maidstone Community Arts Hub.
And in sport, a rugby player from Kent has been telling us how she overcame illness and injury to help England’s Women win the World Cup.
West Malling’s Rosie Galligan was part of the Red Roses squad that beat Canada 33-13 at Twickenham last month.
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