Podcast: Waste company Veolia apologises after workers remove homeless woman’s belongings from outside Boots in Dover

A waste company has apologised after workers were filmed taking a homeless woman’s possessions from outside a store in Dover, and dumping them in their truck.

Footage at KentOnline shows the Veolia staff removing a mattress and personal items from outside the Boots store in the town centre. Hear from reporter Millie Bowles who has been covering the story.

Also in today’s podcast, people living in Tunbridge Wells woke up to another day of water issues earlier. South East Water say a series of bursts at one of their sites was to blame.

It comes after boss David Hinton faced MP’s yesterday over an outage that left customers without supplies for two weeks in the lead up to Christmas. He has faced further calls to resign from local MP Mike Martin.

There are suggestions the Port of Ramsgate could open up again, to help relieve pressure on Kent’s roads.

Plans are reportedly under consideration as part of the preparations to reopen Manston Airport for freight. But, this comes as Thanet District Council are looking to reduce the amount of money they have to invest to keep the facilities in working condition.

A hard hitting play written in Kent about young people and mobile phones is being performed in parliament.

Generation FOMO is based on interviews and conversations with students at schools and at the Uni of Kent.

A new event space has opened up in Folkestone, taking over a site that’s been abandoned for the last 50 years.

The Loft is situated on the upper floor of the Petticoat Emporium which opened it June last year but the building had previously been home to M&S and Wilko.

And finally, the KentOnline Podcast has been hearing how Kent’s only greyhound racing track has managed to survive when so many others have shut down.

Central Park in Sittingbourne has been running dog races since 1994.

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