Podcast: NHS staff in parts of Kent are being offered the chance to resign as part of plans to cut costs

NHS staff at two Kent Trusts have been invited to resign as part of plans to cut costs.

Dartford and Gravesham NHS Trust and Medway NHS Foundation Trust are offering severance payouts to try and address financial challenges.

Also in today’s podcast, people in Tunbridge Wells are still being told to boil their water before drinking it – more than a week after being hit with supply issues.

24,000 properties have been impacted by a problem at the Pembury treatment works. 

Meantime, the town’s MP is calling on government to provide Covid-style support to businesses affected by the supply issues.

Mike Martin has written to the Water Minister calling for £18.5 million. He’s been speaking to our reporter Charlotte Phillips.

A woman in Sheerness is appealing for action to stop dog walkers leaving their pet’s mess on a walkway leading to the beach.

Anne Tiller says she has to constantly dodge mounds of poo on the path in Marine Parade during her daily walks.

We’ve been invited to take a look inside the word’s first mirco-pub which opened in Kent twenty years ago.

The Butcher’s Arms, in Herne, was founded by Martyn Hillier in 2005 who’d always fantasised about a pub without TVs, mobile phones, food queues and smoking. He’s been chatting to reporter James Pallant.

In sport, the boss of a Kent karting circuit says it was fantastic to see Lando Norris win the Formula One world title yesterday.

The 26 year-old regularly competed at Buckmore Park in Chatham as a youngster.

Football, and it was another point for Gillingham in league two at the weekend.

They held Colchester United to a goalless draw away from home – we’ve got reaction from manager Gareth Ainsworth.

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