Podcast: Dad calls for better education on knives after boy threatened at primary school from nudiste beach Watch Video

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✓ Published: 06-Mar-2024

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<p>There are calls for younger children to be better educated on the danger of knives after an eight-year-old boy was threatened</a> in Margate.</p><p>He was in the canteen at Cliftonville Primary School when another pupil held a piece of cutlery to his throat.</p><p>Campaigners have been reacting to the Chancellor's Budget after he set out the government's spending plans.</p><p>Jeremy Hunt announced a 2p cut to National Insurance, a new tax on vapes and a freeze on fuel duty.</p><p>It is feared it could cost millions of pounds to clean up waste from an illegal dumping scandal</a> on Sheppey.</p><p>Hundreds of lorry-loads of rubbish was fly-tipped from cliffs and onto beaches at Eastchurch, until officials blocked access to the site.</p><p>Former Kent miners say they have no regrets - 40 years after going on strike</a>.</p><p>Workers at Tilmanstone, Snowdown and Betteshanger collieries walked out as part of a nationwide fight to save them from closure.</p><p>Two critically endangered Sumatran orangutans are settling into their new home in Kent</a> well.</p><p>The brothers have relocated from Switzerland to Port Lympne near Hythe, and could one day be relocated to the wild.</p><p>And in football, Gillingham have once again slipped out of the League 2 play-off places after losing to Barrow</a>.</p><p>The Gills were beaten 2-0 last night - their first defeat in four matches.</p>