Podcast: Canterbury pub landlord needs to sell 130,000 extra pints to cover costs after business rates hike

A pub landlord says government changes to business rates mean he will need to sell an extra 130,000 pints a year.

He has four venues across Canterbury and says he will have to cough up an extra £64,000 annually to cover increased costs.

Also in today’s podcast, police have confirmed a 17-year-old boy and a 16-year-old girl were killed when a blue Ford Fiesta left the road in Iwade. 

We’ve spoken to someone who works nearby to where the crash happened on Saturday night. 

The boss of a water company which left 24,000 homes and businesses without drinking water over a two-week period has faced MPs in Parliament today.

South East Water boss David Hinton has given himself a  mark out of ten for how he handled the Tunbridge Wells water outage before Christmas.

A woman who nearly died from anorexia but was pulled back from the brink has written a book and started a podcast to try to help others.

Things were so bad for Annie O’Quigley that her partner threatened to leave her as he “couldn’t watch someone die” in front of him.

And you can hear from the Ashford MP who says bringing international trains back to the town remains his “top priority” in 2026.

Sojan Joseph, who was elected last year, says restarting services in Ashford would benefit the town in a “big way”.

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