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Reforms to council tax benefit are unworkable, according to the Deputy Leader of Medway Council, on the day we reveal that the authority has the worst collection rate of council tax in the county. Over 拢4m was uncollected by Medway in the last financial year, that is 5% of what it was owed.

The government wants local councils to take on responsibility for administering council tax benefit from next April, deciding who should get it and who should not. However, ministers are giving them 10% less money to play with, and only pensioners on council tax benefit are protected from the cuts (06:07, 07:07 and 08:07).

There are now so many heavily overweight people in Kent and the South East that the region's ambulance service has had to spend 拢400,000 on ambulances for bariatric patients. Those are patients who are even more overweight than the morbidly obese. The bariatric ambulances carry specialist lifting gear (06:25, 07:22 and 08:22).

A Kent father's created an iPhone app to help his children learn their times tables and make maths fun.

The programme created by Ian Knapp from Tunbridge Wells has been downloaded by 30,000 users world-wide (07:48).