Red routes are coming to Medway

Plus the end is in sight for Pier Road's blue boards, and polite students heckle Keir Starmer at MidKent College

Editor’s note: Welcome to our Friday news update. This week, we’ve been setting up some new social media accounts. So for a more visual way to follow Local Authority, we’re now on Instagram, years after it was the cool place to be. We’ve also launched on Threads, Instagram’s new Twitter clone, which seems rather nice so far. Join us there to get updates…