Podcast: Workers at a newsagents on the Hoo Peninsula say they've been left in fear after series of ‘shocking’ attacks.
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Friday, 25 April 2025 - 16 minutes
Shop workers in a Medway village say they’ve been left “traumatised” after a series of “shocking” attacks on the store.
Staff at the newsagent in Hoo say they’re suffering regular verbal abuse and have had display stands chucked at them and have even been threatened with acid.
Also in today’s podcast, an abusive man who assaulted his partner for almost two years and made her life an “absolute misery” has been jailed.
The offences starting shortly after the pair met in July 2022 and included belittling the victim in front of her friends and family, constantly demanding to know her whereabouts and making insults about her appearance.
A nursery has been rated ‘Inadequate’ after Ofsted inspectors discovered staff were giving children medicine without the “required written permissions” from parents.
The site on Romney Marsh was given the lowest grading possible after being visited by the government watchdog last month.
Anger is mounting in Britain’s smallest town as it remains shut off so repairs can be carried out on the mayor’s house - despite work grinding to a halt last week.
The only road through the town - a route used by thousands of motorists a day - was closed on April 7 for more than three months, leaving many facing travel misery.
And in football you can hear from the Gillingham boss ahead of their final home game of the season.
They’re hosting Swindon Town and will be hoping to keep their ten game unbeaten run alive.
