Podcast: Anger over demolition of historic buildings in Ashford ahead of Netflix-linked film studios scheme

Furious residents say the demolition of historic buildings as part of a multimillion-pound film studios project should never have been allowed to happen. Contractors have already knocked down a series of lean-to structures connected to abandoned engine sheds in Ashford. Also in today’s podcast, new public artwork showing the lifelike figure of a woman submerged in a river has been branded “offensive, creepy and disturbing” – with some calling for it to be removed. It follows the installation of the controversial statue in the River Stour in Canterbury by a world-renowned underwater sculptor.A woman has avoided jail after her dog savagely attacked a dad and left him needing surgery.She’s admitted being in charge of a dog dangerously out of control causing injury after the attacked at Hersden Industrial Park. An Ashford woman says lives are being put at risk from dangerous potholes and cracks in the pavement. Furious residents have also slammed the authorities for failing to fix a single pothole while two of the worst roads were recently closed for other maintenance. And a two-year-old brown bear in Kent is to undergo pioneering brain surgery in a UK first.Boki, who lives at Wildwood Trust near Canterbury, has been suffering from seizures and recently underwent an MRI scan.