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Β£20,000 paid to council maintenance worker in error

John and Clare with the latest news, travel, and weather, plus stories from around Kent.

Questions are being asked this morning about how more than Β£20,000 of taxpayers money was lost after Kent County Council paid an allowance intended for its leader, Paul Carter, to another employee with the same name. That Paul Carter - a maintenance man - is now believed to have taken seven months worth of payments and disappeared in Eastern Europe.

It all happened at the end of 2007 and start of 2008, and the Authority believes it would cost more to track down the missing Paul Carter, than the amount he did a runner with (06:07, 07:07 and 08:08).

The number of tenants being kicked out of their homes by landlords in Kent and Medway has reached the highest level for nearly a decade.

A total of 2,830 possession claims were made by landlords in Kent and Medway last year.

Charities say it is down to increased pressure on people's already stretched household budgets and the increase rise of rents (06:22, 07:22 and 08:22).

In just two weeks time the digital television switchover continues in Kent - meaning thousands of households across the county could be left with blank TV screens.

On Wednesday 30th May the analogue signal for Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ 2 will be permanently switched off at the Tunbridge Wells transmitter - with the remaining terrestrial channels disappearing a couple of weeks later on 13th June (08:53).

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Wed 16 May 2012 06:00

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