An Ashford woman has spoken out about the moment she was seriously injured in a dog attack.
Fay Hagger suffered a fractured elbow and needed stitches after being bitten and dragged to the ground in Kennington in June last year.
She's now slammed a decision by the courts not to put the Rottweiler-cross breed down and has been chatting to reporter Chantal Weller.
After it was revealed the number of community wardens in Kent is set to be cut - one village has taken matters into their own hands.
The county council are to scale back the project by as much as 40% to save £1 million.
But, that's led to concerns some areas could see a rise in antisocial behaviour if patrols are no longer happening. Our local democracy reporter has been to Headcorn to find out what's happening there.
An independent garden centre in Strood could be closed and replaced with housing.
Plans have been submitted to Medway Council to develop the site of Dillywood Garden Centre off the A289 in Higham.
Meantime, plans have been unveiled for more than 350 flats and commercial space in Chatham town centre.
Developers want to convert the former Go Outdoors building and HomePlus Furniture store.
The boss of a charity-based gym in Canterbury is urging young people to get off TikTok and get fit.
Oli Nonis also runs a security company and is hoping to encourage more teenagers to take up boxing. Our reporter James Pallant joined him in the ring.
In sport, we've got news on a campaign that's running on the website to try and tackle bad behaviour in football - hear from Head of Sport, Matthew Panting.
And, Gillingham will be fighting to stay in the league 2 play-off places when they travel to AFC Wimbledon later.
The game follows Saturday's draw against Tranmere Rovers at Priestfield.
10. Kent Online News News You Can Trust This is the Kent Online Podcast. Nicola Everett Hello, hope you're okay. Thanks ever so much for downloading today's podcast. It's Tuesday, March the 12th. First a day. We can hear from an Ashford woman who's spoken out about the moment she was seriously injured in a dog attack. Faye Hager suffered a fractured elbow and needed stitches after being dragged to the ground in Kennington in June last year. She's now slammed a decision by the courts, not to put the rockwire lacrosse breed down. Instead, he's been monitored in a kennel for several months and deemed not to be a threat. But the pet will have to be muzzled in public and his owners have been placed on a 12-month community order and each need to carry out 150 hours of unpaid work. Faye has been speaking to our reporter Chantal Weller. I was just walking home from a night out, happened to walk around a corner to see a couple with a dog. The next minute, the dog was attached to my arm. Totally out of the blue. Can't think of any reason why it would have happened, but unfortunately it did. Yeah, so tell me a little bit about that moment. You said that it's one of those things you never expected to happen and in the moment, obviously, you were just focused on trying to get the dog off your arm. Tell me a bit about that and then when you then realised what was happening with things. The first thing, it was almost like disbelief. I couldn't believe that it had actually happened. Then I just kind of almost went blank, couldn't remember anything at the time and then the sudden pain, severe pain, I think I said to you earlier, I'd rather give birth than have to go through that pain again and then the next minute, I'm being pulled to the ground and screaming and then I remember screaming at that point. I mean, it must have been a good 60 seconds or so before I'd even registered the fact I'm screaming and they managed to eventually pull the dog off and the next thing I remember was the mother saying to me, "Be quiet and calm down." It must have been really frustrating to hear as well. It was, yeah, because I mean, you're in that much pain when you've registered what's going on and you're in pain, so what do you do when you're in pain? You scream. Yeah, of course, anybody else would, wouldn't they? Yeah. After that, you then called your son. I called my younger son, yeah, because we're literally within like a two-minute run from where it happens and he was literally there within two minutes and I was sitting on the floor and he helped me get up and at that moment the lady that was sitting with me just wanted to disappear. My son was thinking, "Can we take your name? Where'd you live?" And she just didn't want to know, it just went. Yeah, it was awful isn't it? Yeah. And you then went to hospital and then when you got to hospital, you sort of found out eventually that you'd have to have this surgery. Yeah. So tell me a little bit about what that surgery is or is this something you've got? Yeah, I've had a radial head replacement, so basically the radial head on my arms too badly damaged to be able to fix it with pins and that, so the best option was for the radial head replacement, but it just means that I don't have full use of my arm, I'll only have about 80% use. And obviously it was in court last week and you said that you weren't happy with the outcome, what do you think should have happened? I think the dog should have been put down, that was my first opinion, or at least if they wanted to rehabilitate it away from this area, I believe that they should have been banned from having animals because I think the ones they've served their sentence, that they got to the community service and that, that's it, they just move on whereas I've got to remind her forever. Kent Online News. Other top stories for you now and a woman's gone on trial accused of helping her boyfriend lie low after a fatal shooting on Sheppy, Daisy Donahoe allegedly booked a hotel and provided food and clothing for Jonathan Lawler following the death of Sam Petru at a Chalet Park last June. The suspected gunman died in prison while awaiting court proceedings, Donahoe who's 36 from Burnell Avenue in Welling denies perverting the course of justice. A rumscape man who sent explicit messages to a girl he thought was just 12 years old, has been jailed. Michael McGee also tried to arrange to meet the child in person between November and December last year. A 38 year old from King Street has been locked up for six years and eight months. Their courts heard how a man smashed up an asdolori with a crowbar in a road rage attack in Dartford, while stuck in traffic caused by just-stop oil protesters. You may remember they'd climbed onto the QE2 bridge in October 2022 and caused huge tailbacks. Well, Sidney Smith was on his way home from Rochester to Essex when the delivery vehicle clipped his car. The 25-year-old from Lower Dunton Road in Brentwood has been ordered to do 100 hours of unpaid work and pay compensation. If you follow Kent Online on socials, you can see a CCTV image of a person being hunted after graffiti was sprayed on a car park wall in Canterbury. The multi-story on station road west was targeted last November. A picture of the damage has also been released, which features the words "no escape". A former church pastor from Ramsgate who assaulted his wife of 16 years has been sent to prison. A court, her Joshua Jimball, became enraged after his wife was brought dinner and given a lift home by a friend from church. The 43-year-old, who lives in St John's Avenue, was sentenced to three and a half years. "Kent Online Reports" Next today and after it was revealed that the number of community wardens in Kent is set to be cut, one village has taken matters into their own hands. The County Council are to scale back the project by as much as 40% to save a million pounds, but that has led to concerns some areas could see a rise in antisocial behaviour if patrols are no longer happening. In HeadCon, the parish council have decided to fund their own community liaison officer instead. Stuart Ellsmere is the man with the job. "There is a reduction in money coming into councils and agencies and everybody else, so if an area wants to be more resilient and look after its own people, then I think it's a fantastic thing." It's hoped he'll be able to work with the police, power council, social workers and housing officials to alert them to issues before they get out of control. Stefan Christadulu is the parish clerk and thinks it'll be a vital role. "If that position was lost, a lot of people in the village, the most vulnerable people in the village, would very quickly know about it. Their problems would increase, it would make it so that we were responsible for these people, but without all the links and knowledge that Stuart has, it was a help." The village also recently lost their police community support officer after a reorganisation by the chem force, however, they do have two shared officers. With their counsellor James Thomas fears that's not enough. "The truth is, there's nothing we can do about the police. We can't employ a policeman. I know we have police, you can see them all the time driving through the village, they're not stopping. Now, I know that we do have two resident police people, and that's marvellous news, but they need to be more visible." Chem police say there has been an increased focus on tackling crime and antisocial behaviour in head corn, and dedicated beat officers are helping to respond to concerns. Perhaps you live in the area. What do you think of this latest addition? You can get in touch by e-mailing news at thekmgroup.co.uk "Cents online reports." Figures today show another rise in unemployment in Kent, 39,165 people were claiming out of the work benefits in January, that's 245 more than the previous month. This is one of our most read stories on the website today. An independent garden centre in Strewd could be closed and replaced with housing. Plans have been submitted to Medway Council to develop the site of Dillywood Garden Centre of the A289 in Hayem. Those behind the proposal say it will be an efficient use of space that people opposed to have concerns over traffic and parking, we're told a decision is due in May. Meantime plans have been unveiled for more than 350 flats and commercial space in Chatham Town Centre. Developers want to convert the former go outdoors building and home plus furniture stores. You can see the designs at Kent Online, a two week consultation is underway to find out what you think. A survey found at 1/3 of Kent's road closures shouldn't have happened and were found to be breaking the rules. An audit of works revealed five were deemed unsafe, three roads were closed but no work started and four had incorrect signs. Its property calls for a change to the system and for central government to increase fines for those caught breaking the rules. Meantime, AMPR cameras are going to be installed in Kent to try and catch bad drivers. The County Council have signed up to a scheme which will see fines issued to those who ignore no entry signs, drive along bus lanes or block yellow box junctions. It's due to come into force in the next few months and staying with Transport News, more trains are going to be running between Maidstone Eastern Charing Cross from this summer. Southeastern have announced they're adding two new fast-return services from London in the evening. It's been welcomed by commuters who've campaigned for better travel links in the area. Kent Online News The boss of a charity-based gym in Canterbury is urging young people to get off TikTok and get fit. Oli Nones also runs a security company and is hoping to encourage more teenagers to take up boxing. He thinks it would instill or discipline along with improving physical and mental fitness. Oli has been chatting along with head coach Chris Harrison. City boxing is an amateur boxing club, we are a charity-based club, we are here to bring youth in to amateur boxing in any way, shape or form. Training has, it gives you drive ambition, we're a big community here, so it's not just about the boxing, we're here for everybody else. This boxing is based on discipline. I think we're creating positive role models, influence on the local youth. I think there's too many negative influences out there and we see a lot of that with the local kids and it's trying to steer them away from that to a positive getting themselves fit up, not just physically but mentally and realising that there are better options they can take in life, as opposed to hanging around and potentially getting into trouble. And you can see how our reporter James Pallant got on when he stepped into the ring by clicking on the story at Kent Online. Artwork is being auctioned off later to raise money for the heart of Kent Hospice. Sculptures, ceramics and prints are all going under the hammer. Two unique pieces from England footballer Alessia Russo are among the collection. A pair of turtles are settling into their new home at a prison on Shetty, Leonardo and Donatello have been rescued from an animal shelter relocated to a wellness space and pond at HMP Swale site. It's been created by inmates and will be used by staff during breaks. And the UK's first all vegan theatre and entertainment venue is going to open near Canterbury next month. It's been set up at the site of the former New Canterbury School in Garland Green which closed last year after off-stud inspectors rated it inadequate. It will now be an independent theatre for education, community groups and local production companies and will be serving ethically sourced food and drinks. Kent Online Sports. That's in sport today, we've got news on a campaign that's running on the website to try tackle bad behaviour in football and I'm joined now by our head of sport Matthew Panting. Matthew, can you tell us a bit more about this campaign then? Well for the past few seasons we've been highlighting disciplinary cases which are originally published on the FA's website across at kensonline.co.uk and some of the behaviour and incidents that we've seen have been quite alarming and quite distressing really when you think of some of the circumstances involved. But rather than just highlight those cases, what we've tried to do this season is include the message to stamp it out and also incorporate some of the FA's own campaign material around improving pitch behaviour on and off the pitch. Hopefully by highlighting the bad behaviour it might encourage others to think twice about their own personal conduct and improve their behaviour around their game and hopefully lead to better standards going forward. And can you also share with us some of the behaviour that's been flagged up? Well some of the incidents are quite alarming and under 16's game in Fannock for examples are banned due to the threatening behaviour of one of the coaches. He was then given a 147 day ban from football and is no longer involved at the club following that incident. Sunday league player at Dartford Athletic received a 98 day ban after abusing referee in this case that saw him threatening to knock him out. We've also had a spectator punch and assistant referee during a Sunday league game in the folks in an area and a Canterbury United player was banned for 147 days for persistent abuse of the youth referee during a Saturday league challenge cut match. Thank you so much for some shocking examples there as Matthew said. You can read those stories on the website as we aim to stamp it out. Same with football and Gillingham will be fighting to stay in the league two playoff places when they travel to AFC Wimbledon later. The Gills will be hoping to bounce back from Saturday's Draw against Tranmere Rovers. Tonight's opponents will be looking to get into the top seven and the head coach Steven Clemens says it's going to be a tough game. They're all difficult. There's a lot of spirit and fight in a division from players, from managers and I expect no different from Wimbledon. They gave us a very good game here at pre-sfield after I first arrived. We managed to beat them on that occasion but they were a very well organised team and I know Johnny and Terry Skeleton and their coaches and their good people, good coaches and as I say it would be difficult but if we go there and form our weekend it would be very, very difficult for them to. It's one game and I think after that game we've got eight games to go so I'm really trying to emphasize to the boys at the minute it's one game at the time and that's really boring for you guys and really boring for supporters but that's what it is. If you start thinking about what each game means and what have you then sometimes you can get on top of you and become too much pressure for a football player so I think they've just got to concentrate on performance, concentrate on the game plan which helps us be the next opponent and helps us stop the next opponent and that's what we can do and if we do that well enough results will be good enough in my belief and will be where we want to be but it's one game at a time. I don't think we've been too bad away from home again since Christmas either. Look we haven't won every game of course we've lost three or it might be four, three or four whatever it is but we haven't lost many and we've had some really good results on the road too. I've disappointed to lose it at Barrow, I don't want to lose but someone who's a rival that's challenging for those plough spots or automatic spots but it happened and one things for certain we probably won't win every game has been an end of the season but we've got to make sure in there of a shout with four or five games to go. Kickoff is at 7.45 you'll be able to follow the match action at Kent online, we'll have details of the result in bulletins on our sister radio station K.M. FM tomorrow morning plus further reaction in tomorrow's edition of the podcast and finally in tennis Kent's Emma Rajakan who's been knocked out in the third round of the Indian Wells tournament in California, she lost in straight sets to Australian Open champion arena Zabalenka missing out on a place in the last 16. Well that's all from us for today, thanks ever so much for listening, don't forget you can follow us on Facebook, X, Instagram, TikTok and threads plus you can get details on the top stories, direct your email each morning via the briefing, to sign up to that you just need to head to kentonline.co.uk. [MUSIC]
