23 minutes | Wednesday, 18 June 2025
A huge transformation of Folkestone harbour has been approved - five months after the controversial plans were snubbed.More than 400 homes will now be built at the popular landmark after Sir Roger De Haan’s Folkestone Harbour & Seafront Development Company revised its scheme.Also in today’s podcast, we mark 25 years since a grim discovery at Dover docks laid bare the human cost of illegal migration. Fifty-eight Chinese men and women were found dead in the back of a lorry on June 18, 2000. They had suffocated in an airtight container during a desperate attempt to reach the UK.Thousands of drivers have been slapped with £70 fines after cameras were installed to enforce bus gates in a “rat run” road.Parts of some roads in Ashford had already been out of bounds for drivers for years before the devices were switched on in September last year.A handyman fears the town he helped clean for more than a decade will become a mess after his job was axed.He’s been left “in complete shock” after the Folkestone Town Sprucer team, which he has headed up since 2012, was scrapped.And a Medway man is calling on council chiefs to return a 20ft-long fibreglass elephant removed from his driveway over safety fears.He says he’ll pay “whatever it takes” to get the former piece of play equipment back.