Podcast: Cornwallis Academy in Maidstone wants to lift ‘no-whistle’ condition stopping them from using new 3G pitch

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A secondary school in Maidstone has been unable to use its new £700k sports pitch – after falling foul of a ban on noise from referees’ whistles.

Cornwallis Academy has a brand new 3G artificial grass pitch which it has been forbidden from using since August.

Also in today’s podcast, there's been an increase in the number of reports of online child grooming in Kent.

The NSPCC say 264 cases were recorded last year - we’ve spoken to Kent Police about what they’re doing, and what we can do, to keep children safe.

The co-owner of a burger van says he was left “shocked” after it was broken into just a week before opening.

The Sheerness men had spent more than £1,500 on their new business venture, which was ransacked earlier this month.

Work on a controversial one-way system branded “absolutely ridiculous” could finally start this year, having been delayed twice already.

The £3 million transformation of the A28 in Wincheap is seen as a way of “considerably easing congestion” and improving “quality of life in the area”.

And a Kent animal park has given a new lease of life to a pair of big cats previously living under the care of a man dubbed the “UK Tiger King”.

You can hear from The Big Cat Sanctuary in Smarden who have taken on two of the rescues, including the UK’s only Asian Golden Cat.