Podcast: Anger as solar park near Faversham used truckloads of water to wash panels as taps ran dry across Kent
KentOnline
Thursday, 4 June 2026 - 16 minutes
Bosses at a Kent solar farm have apologised after using water from a roadside standpipe to clean panels, when taps in nearby homes were running dry.
A bowser was seen arriving at Cleve Hill Park in Graveney near Faversham during the outages in the recent hot weather.
Also in today's episode, a mother and daughter from Maidstone have been jailed after going on a shopping spree with a credit card stolen from a 91-year-old woman.
It was taken from the victim's home and one of the women was found by police hiding in a cupboard.
Two cars have been caught reaching speeds of more than 100 miles per hour while racing on the M2.
Officers recorded the vehicles as they headed coastbound between junctions 2 and 3 near Rochester in September last year.
The family of a Canterbury woman who died after being dragged and kicked by a horse after it was spooked by dogs are calling for body protectors to be compulsory.
Ewa Larsson had been leading the horse near Deal when it happened last August.
A petition against plans to build 20,000 homes in Kent has been handed in to the Prime Minister.
The Stop The Sprawl campaign argues large scale developments in Lenham, Lidsing, Sittingbourne and Faversham will damage the character of the area.
And, Legend from Gladiators is going to be on the new series of Celebrity Googlebox.
Matt Morsia from Hythe joins the line-up when it returns to Channel 4 tomorrow night.
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