Podcast: Folkestone mum's anger as driver who hit daughter on zebra crossing avoids time in prison

KentOnline

A Kent mum whose daughter was hit by a driver on a zebra crossing has spoken to the podcast about her anger that he's been spared jail.

11-year-old Dollie Giglia was knocked down on Tram Road in Folkestone in January last year. She suffered multiple fractures and a brain injury.

Also in today's episode, five members of a crime group have been sentenced after police uncovered a cocaine network in Thanet.

Footage at KentOnline shows the moment the ringleader was arrested at his home on Highfield Road in Ramsgate.

Campaigners fighting to save two children's centres in Kent say they've won another battle, but not the war just yet.

There's been anger at the idea of closing Seashells in Sheerness and Millmead in Margate.

Now a scrutiny committee's decided to put the decision to shut them on hold.

Concerns have been raised after a report found what's been called a 'Boy's Club' culture within the ambulance service that covers Kent.

The GMB union surveyed almost 900 staff members, however, a source close to SECAmb has questioned the credibility of the research.

Two festivals are happening in Kent this weekend, to help us shake off the winter blues.

Community arts organisation Cohesion Plus is putting on Lunar New Year celebrations in Maidstone and a Magical Winter Festival in Ebbsfleet's Platinum Jubilee Park.

And in sport, promotion chasing Notts County are the visitors to take on Gillingham this weekend.

The home side have gone seven games without a win and dropped to 17th in league two. Tomorrow's opponents are up in third.