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Four hundred employees at Thamesteel in Sheerness are fearing for their futures this morning after the company went into administration. Unions say it is a "bitter blow" to the industry. We are live at the plant to gauge the reaction from steel workers and apprentices).

John and Clare also speak to Gordon Henderson, MP for Sittingbourne and Sheppey, and Roy Rickhuss, National Officer for Community, the union which represents the workers at Thamesteel.

Also on the programme, the poorest performing primary schools in Kent have been given a deadline of September to improve or face being forced to become academies.

There are seven schools in Kent, judged on the basis of their Key Stage Two SATS results, that are at risk of being turned into academies. This would make them directly funded by, and accountable to, the government.

We speak to Nigel Utton, Chair of the Kent Association of Headteachers and Head of Bromstone Primary School in Broadstairs.

And it is being claimed 320,000 jobs could be created in pubs and restaurants, if VAT on food, drink and accommodation were slashed to 5%.

Kent brewer Shepherd Neame has joined a campaign supporting a tax reduction and its chief executive Jonathan Neame explains how it would affect his business).

Mickey Clarke, a business journalist who presents 麻豆约拍 Radio 5 live's Wake Up To Money, also offers his expert opinion.