21 minutes | Thursday, 17 October 2024
A fed-up pensioner has sued Arriva after he and his wife were left stranded at a freezing cold bus stop in Maidstone. The bus they needed turned up on time but sailed right past them – they’re now chasing the company for the cost of their taxi home. Also in today’s podcast, the family of a dad-of-five who passed away suddenly just before his 40th birthday say they’re struggling with heartache. Lewis Leggatt was found in his Maidstone home earlier this month but his cause of death still hasn’t been determined. Kmfm has led the tributes to Liam Payne in Kent after the news of his shock death at the age of 31. On today’s podcast you can hear from Liam himself – he was on kmfm’s breakfast show in 2018 after he’d become a dad. Campaigners opposed to two huge housing developments have admitted they have lost the battle to stop 7,000 homes being built in the Kent countryside. The KentOnline Podcast has spoken to the newly-installed Green Party leader of Maidstone council who opposed to the plans for Lenham and Lidsing but says he is now resigned to “making the best of it”.And rangers have been left stunned after the sudden arrival of two bison calves in Kent. The newborns are part of the herd near Canterbury, as part of a project which has seen them roam freely in England for the first time in more than 1,000 years.