Podcast: Sittingbourne boy 'cried for a week' after being given a place at Oasis Academy on Sheppey despite passing the Kent Test from anna jimskia hot scene Watch Video

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✓ Published: 19-Mar-2024

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<p>A Sittingbourne mum says she's gone as far as writing to the Prime Minister after her son passed the Kent test, but wasn't given a place at a grammar school</a>.</p><p>Daniel Psenicnyj didn't get any of the four schools he'd applied for and has instead been offered a place at Oasis Academy on Sheppey which is rated inadequate. Hear from Daniel and his mum Anna who have been speaking to reporter Megan Carr.</p><p>More than 50 vehicles have been stopped and drivers spoken to during a weekend of action</a> to target nuisance motorists in Kent.</p><p>Five of the vehicles were seized for being uninsured or untaxed, while two people were arrested on suspicion of driving under the influence of drink or drugs.</p><p>A Medway landlord has hit out at the local authority after spending 10 years complaining about issues with traffic, only for nothing to be done.</p><p>John Walsh lives in Lordswood and says the road surface in Lambourn Way is poor</a>, there's inconsiderate parking by parents and other drivers going too fast. He's been speaking to Local Democracy Reporter Robert Boddy.</p><p>Catch-up clinics are being run in Kent this Spring as you're urged to make sure your children have had all their vaccinations</a>.</p><p>It's because of a worrying rise in the number of youngsters getting measles. We've been along to one of the clinics to speak to an immunisation nurse.</p><p>The KentOnline Podcast has been told our food security is being put at risk by Asian Hornets in Kent.</p><p>There's already been a confirmed sighting in the county this year in Ash, near Canterbury and we're being urged to look out for more.</p><p>And, plans for a new independent football regulator will be debated for the first time in Parliament.</p><p>The Football Governance Bill is being brought in following a fan-led review by Kent MP and former sports minister Tracey Crouch.</p>