Podcast: Attacker ‘saw red’ at his Folkestone bar Picklebacks and stabbed man with broken bottle
KentOnline
Tuesday, 21 October 2025 - 20 minutes
A court has heard a man “saw red” on the night his town centre bar was closing down and thrust a broken bottle into another man’s head.
Steven Harwood-Brown threw one of his employees to the floor at Folkestone venue Picklebacks, before stabbing the victim, who had intervened to stop the fight.
Also in today’s podcast, pressure is growing on the leader of Kent County Council after seven MPs demanded she quit and an eighth labelled her behaviour ‘unacceptable.’
In a letter to Reform leader Nigel Farage, the Labour MPs said Cllr Linden Kemkaran was ‘clearly not up to the job.
Two Kent women who survived domestic abuse are starting a community project to provide clothing and toiletries for other victims.
The DV Closet, in Sevenoaks, is a safe space where those who've fled abuse can get the support they need.
Long-harboured plans to build a new reservoir in the Kent countryside are finally moving forward as contractors carry out the first phase of ground investigation works.
South East Water is planning to build a 200-acre facility on farmland near Canterbury - you can hear from the project manager.
And a Kent farmer's told us he's pleased to be able to give apples he grows to charity - to avoid them going to waste.
The crop at Hazel Street Farm is no longer financially viable, so the orchard has been handed over to a food project.
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