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KentOnline Podcast: Free sanitary products in schools and colleges to tackle period poverty

Schools and colleges in Kent are being offered sanitary products in a bid to reduce the number of girls missing classes because of period poverty.

Almost half of teenage girls in the country think not being able to afford pads or tampons is holding girls back.

Also in today's episode: calls for Big Ben to chime to mark Brexit have been branded a waste of money, thousands of people have signed a petition against new homes, Fatboy Slim and Madness will be headlining a Kent festival this summer, and the Gillingham manager gives us his thoughts on the weekend's result.

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