Podcast: Residents in Joyce Green Walk, Dartford, fear lives are at risk after 'hoarded' items in a garden were deliberately set alight
KentOnline
Tuesday, 30 September 2025 - 19 minutes
People living in part of Dartford say lives are being put at risk by mounds of hoarded waste in a garden.
Pictures at KentOnline show the state of the land outside the bungalow on Joyce Green Walk in the town, and a fire that recently broke out there is being treated as suspected arson. Hear from reporter Alex Langridge who has been covering the story.
Also in today's podcast, police have cordoned off part of Rochester High Street following reports of a suspicious item.
The bomb squad was called to a residential property near Corporation Street yesterday evening.
Residents in Dover say they are suffering sleepless nights due to a generator at a new store.
The machine has been running at the Co-op on Archers Court Road in Whitfield for the past seven weeks.
The deputy leader of Reform UK says the party taking control of Kent County Council will show the country what they can do.
They won this years' local elections in a landslide. Richard Tice has been the guest on the latest episode of the Kent Politics Podcast.
A bus that used to take passengers around Maidstone has been given a new lease of life, as a soft play facility for SEN children.
The Nu-Venture vehicle had to stop running a couple of years ago when it's engine died and was donated to Five Acre Wood School in Loose.
And in sport, Kent rugby player Rosie Galligan says being part of the World Cup winning squad has been "phenomenal".
The 27-year-old from West Malling came on as a 70th-minute replacement in Saturday's victory over Canada at Twickenham.
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