Podcast: The hardest secondary schools to get a place at in Kent, with as many as four in five students rejected

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The KentOnline Podcast can reveal which secondary schools in Kent are the hardest to get a place at and why.

It comes as there are concerns about many schools being oversubscribed, with as many as four out of five children being denied their first choice.

Also in today’s podcast, an inquest into the death of a 93-year-old former GP and his 91-year-old wife at their home in Sandwich has found it was a double tragedy.

Brian and Dilys Richards were found in July this year – police say there was no evidence a third party was involved and it's not being treated as suspicious.

You can also hear from the boss of one of Kent’s largest employers as they prepare to undergo a huge overhaul.

The £220 million transformation of BAE Systems in Rochester is one of the largest investments the firm has ever made.

There’s anger as the return of the beautiful game to a remote village in Medway has been thrown in doubt after vandals took it upon themselves to trash football pitches.

Volunteers have spent more than a year getting the fields on the Isle of Grain ready to welcome new men’s team, but they’ve been forced to play their first game elsewhere.

And, a film crew working in Kent to shoot a new comedy has been forced to issue an apology to local villagers.

Production vehicles have been clogging up private roads and car parks in what’s been described as a “miscommunication of the site’s boundaries”.