Podcast: Margate mum and her young daughter being driven “mad” in council home with fleas and mice

We’ve heard from a frustrated mum says she is being driven “mad” by fleas and mice in her council home just weeks after moving in.

Lucy Day says her three-year-old daughter is so scared of the pests that the pair have been forced to live out of one room at the Margate flat.

Also in today’s podcast, an irate woman has appeared in court after she grabbed a wheel wrench from her car boot and attacked a woman – claiming she had parked too close to her vehicle.

She’d nipped out to get some lunch for her children when she saw red during an altercation at an Aldi car park in Swanley. 

You can hear from a Kent MP who’s criticised a decision for two neighbouring hospital trusts to share a chief executive.

It was announced last month Jonathan Wade, who’s chief executive of Dartford and Gravesham NHS Trust, would be taking over as the boss of Medway NHS Foundation Trust as well. 

The fate of plans for 1,000 homes on the edge of a town has been taken out of a council’s hands because it took six years to make a decision.

Ashford Borough Council  insists a bid for Court Lodge in Kingsnorth should be scrapped as developers have not given enough detail.

And in sport, we’ll hear from the Gillingham goalkeeper who has reached a milestone at the club. 

He’s played his 100th game and is hoping to celebrate with a win against Salford this weekend.