Podcast: Drink driver sentenced after crashing into Strood grandmother’s bungalow while twice the legal limit
KentOnline
Wednesday, 12 August 2026 - 21 minutes
A Strood woman who was twice the drink-drive limit when she ploughed into a grandmother’s bungalow has been sentenced.
The crash left 84-year-old Jill Robson, who has terminal leukaemia, living in a hotel for six months – you can hear from her about how she felt in court.
Also in today’s podcast, we hear from the experts ahead of tonight’s solar eclipse which will be visible in Kent today.
It’s a rare event that hasn’t been seen for nearly 25-years but there is a warning about safe ways to watch as the moon moves across the sun.
A Kent veteran of the UK’s nuclear bomb testing programme of the 1950s and ‘60s says the change of Prime Minister has brought new hope.
The diminishing number of ex-servicemen say they have been waiting more than 70 years for proper compensation after having been used as “human guinea-pigs” while Britain was testing its first nuclear weapons.
A luxury hotel and golf course that has attracted several celebrities to stay has scrapped plans for a major expansion, leaving staff and bosses “bitterly disappointed”.
They had hoped to create a “country-club style” extension of its facilities, including a spa, padel courts and extra rooms.
And we can bring you an update on a group of six Kent women who were taking part in a challenge to swim from Dover to France.
They wanted to take on the swim to honour the first woman to do it 100 years ago – and to raise money for a charity which teaches children life saving skills.
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