Podcast: Landlady of The Staggered Inn micropub in Dover left customer needing surgery after attack

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A Dover landlady who attacked a customer she found sleeping behind the bar has avoided being sent to prison.

Maidstone Crown Court was told how a row had broken out a The Staggered Inn micropub in the High Street in December last year.

Also on today's podcast, it's been a nightmare on the M25 in Kent after a huge lorry fire overnight.

The vehicle caught alight on the clockwise carriageway between Sevenoaks and Godstone.

We're being asked what we think about planned changes to firefighter response time targets in Kent.

At the moment crews aim to get to an emergency within 10 minutes - no matter where it is.

It's feared plans for more beach huts on part of the Kent coast will cause traffic problems in a nearby village.

Bosses in Dover want to add 33 buildings to the 23 already at Kingsdown near Deal at a cost of £130,000.

A former MEP from Kent says he hopes one day there'll be another Brexit vote for the next generation.

Anthony Hook is now leader of the Lib Dems at the county council, and has been speaking on the Kent Politics Podcast.

A former Rochester pupil has returned to the school he went to - as a teacher.

Reo Mardell went to St Peter's Infants for three years from 2006 - and started working there in September after graduating.

Football, and the Gillingham manager says he's confident they can turn things around after four defeats in a row.

They lost 2-1 to Bradford City away from home at the weekend.