25 minutes | Friday, 19 September 2025
Kent County Council have backtracked on a pledge to treat climate change as an emergency.An official declaration was made in 2019 - but a Reform UK councillor has now led a motion to scrap the statement, describing the science behind global warming as "nonsense".Despite a protest outside County Hall in Maidstone, the motion was voted through by 50 votes to 21 with three abstentions.Also in today's podcast, a Kent headteacher says children are being traumatised by content they're seeing online.Damian McBeath banned children from having phones in class last year and is now backing a national campaign calling for the digital age of consent to be raised to 16.Anti-immigration protestors are set to rally in Kent again this weekend.Demonstrators will march through Canterbury to a facility being used to house asylum- seeking children, while a counter demonstration is also due to take place. Hear from our local democracy reporter Dan Esson.The final Salute to the 40s event will take place at the Historic Dockyard in Chatham this weekend.The retro festival is expected to attract thousands of visitors but, after running for 18 years, this will be the very last one.Hundreds of people will be taking part in a fundraising walk for a hospice charity in Gravesend this evening.ellenor's annual Twilight Walk starts and ends at St Georges C of E School with an eight kilometre route around the town.And in football, Gillingham have the chance to break a club record this weekend.They're currently 20 games unbeaten in league two.A win or draw at Newport County tomorrow would make it the longest run without a defeat in the side's history. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.