Podcast: Residents plead to housebuilder Bovis to complete their five-year-old estate at The Meadows in Staplehurst

Residents have made a desperate plea to their housebuilder: Please finish our estate.

It is well over five years since the first families moved into The Meadows development in Staplehurst but they are still living with unfinished roads, crumbling pavements and a children’s play area that has never opened.

Also in today’s podcast, officers searching a property in Maidstone have found a drug dealer hiding in his garden shed

Police were called to reports of a disturbance but found cocaine, cannabis and cash – we’re got audio of the moment he was arrested. 

There’s community anger over a crucial cut-through road which has been shut 22 times in the past two years.

The road in Sissinghurst, which is little over half a mile long, has been closed for a variety of roadworks but half were related to South East Water.

A Kent veteran who became the first double above the knee amputee to climb Mt Everest says there’s more work to do to reduce the stigma around disability. 

Former Gurkha Hari Budha Magar, from Canterbury, has just returned from his latest challenge of climbing the highest peaks on all seven continents. 

And in football you can hear from the Gillingham manager ahead of this weekend’s away fixture at Harrogate Town. 

Gareth Ainsworth says they’ll be looking for gain momentum following last week’s dramatic victory over Newport County. 

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