A huge transformation of Folkestone harbour has been approved – five months after the controversial plans were snubbed.
More than 400 homes will now be built at the popular landmark after Sir Roger De Haan’s Folkestone Harbour & Seafront Development Company revised its scheme.
Also in today’s podcast, we mark 25 years since a grim discovery at Dover docks laid bare the human cost of illegal migration.
Fifty-eight Chinese men and women were found dead in the back of a lorry on June 18, 2000. They had suffocated in an airtight container during a desperate attempt to reach the UK.
Thousands of drivers have been slapped with £70 fines after cameras were installed to enforce bus gates in a “rat run” road.
Parts of some roads in Ashford had already been out of bounds for drivers for years before the devices were switched on in September last year.
A handyman fears the town he helped clean for more than a decade will become a mess after his job was axed.
He’s been left “in complete shock” after the Folkestone Town Sprucer team, which he has headed up since 2012, was scrapped.
And a Medway man is calling on council chiefs to return a 20ft-long fibreglass elephant removed from his driveway over safety fears.
He says he’ll pay “whatever it takes” to get the former piece of play equipment back.