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Catching up with the new independent
What makes a councillor suddenly quit their party?
Steven Keevil
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“I don't identify really as Billy Childish”
What Steven asked Billy Childish, artist, writer, musician, and poet.
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“I think the point is that the group are united”
What Steven asked Cllr George Perfect, the new Deputy Leader of the Medway Conservative Group.
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The end of the new administration
Labour has passed its first Medway Council budget. What's next?
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“I enable people, I don't tell them what to do.”
What Steven asked Heather Haythornthwaite of The Hazelnut Press.
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Medway... in activity book form!
Plus a new Medway single from Venbee, a review of Gurkha Fire in Chatham, our event guide, and lots more
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“I've stopped thinking that it's going to make my fortune any time soon”
What Steven asked Bob Collins, guitarist with The Dentists and too many other bands to fit here
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"We were very keen not to just replicate something”
What Steven asked Patrick Fysh, co-owner of independent bookshop Store 104
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Medway Council reaches budget climax tonight
Plus former leader Alan Jarrett on the position the council finds itself in
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“We were paying their rents to make sure they wouldn’t be evicted”
What Steven asked Penny Keevil, founder of Second Chance Medway, and (checks notes) his mum.
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“I don’t have any technique, I never learned anything about it.”
What Steven asked Wolf Howard, poet, musician, and former Stuckist.
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"It's up to the people of Hoo if they want to be a town"
What Steven asked Cllr Michael Pearce, Deputy Leader of the Independent Group on Medway Council and campaigner for the Hoo Peninsula