Traders in a shopping centre in Ashford say a decision to demolish the site is "brutal"...The council have announced the closure-hit Park Mall centre will be temporarily replaced with a car park, while plans are considered for its redevelopment.Also in today's podcast, campaigners against a new road tunnel linking Kent and Essex have suggested a rail route instead.They have been setting out alternatives to the Lower Thames Crossing which they say will be smarter and cheaper.A coroner's ruled the death of a 22 year-old Ashford man who was hit by a train in Australia was a tragic accident.Luke Beaufils had been partying with friends before falling onto the tracks at a railway station on the outskirts of Sydney last March.Volunteers at a soup kitchen in Maidstone are asking the council for help, after being told they'll have to start paying for parking.Hungry Hearts for the Homeless have been serving rough sleepers in the College Road car park for the last seven years.A Kent MP is urging Sir Keir Starmer to make sure the government's tackling health inequalities in deprived areas.Polly Billington's spoken during PMQs in the Commons.Elsewhere, the MP for the Weald of Kent has spoken on the cost of granting asylum seekers indefinite leave to remain.
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