Podcast: Blood soaked floors found at Ashford business hit with second zero-star hygiene rating in a year

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A town centre shop has been hit with its second zero-star hygiene rating in less than a year after inspectors uncovered blood-soaked floors.

The business in Ashford received another damning report highlighting a catalogue of failures including poor hygiene practices, damaged equipment and mould.

Also in today’s podcast, a pensioner with a fetish for listening to women urinate claimed he was “desperate” from a stomach upset when caught using ladies’ cubicles.

The 67-year-old was busted in Herne Bay om June this year, when he was subject to a court order banning him from "lingering, waiting and standing" outside public loos.

We’ve spoken to a Kent pub boss about proposals to introduce smoking bans in some areas including beer gardens.

Some say it will be the final nail in the coffin for the pub industry.

You can also hear from the manager of a Morrisons daily who tells us why he stayed in the job for 51-years despite once being held up at gunpoint.

The 65-year-old is giving up his 4am starts after starting with the company as a paperboy aged 14.

And a former vaccine centre in Sittingbourne that has been left empty since the pandemic is being transformed into a “much-needed” cafe and food bank.

The Podcast has spoken to some of the people behind the renovations and what they mean for the community.