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KentOnline Podcast: Fire breaks out at barracks in Folkestone being used to house asylum seekers

17:18, 29 January 2021

updated: 17:21, 29 January 2021

A fire has broken out at an army barracks in Folkestone being used to house asylum seekers.

Emergency crews were called to Napier Barracks and videos posted on social media show dozens of people gathered outside and alarms can be heard.

Also in today's podcast, there are concerns about elderly people having to queue outside Kent's first mass Covid vaccination centre.

It's though there could be staycation boom in Kent this summer with uncertainty remaining over when we'll be able to travel abroad again.

We hear from Rita Ora who stars in a new modern-day film version of Charles Dickens' novel Oliver Twist.

And, Gillingham defender Ryan Jackson chat ahead of their trip to Sunderland this weekend.

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