Podcast: Employee left with severe brain injury after boss crashed truck in Pluckley told him "I hate what you've turned me into"

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A man left with a devastating brain injury after his boss crashed a truck after drinking has told him in court: “I hate what you’ve turned me into.”

The 30-year-old was knocked unconscious and suffered multiple fractures when the driver ploughed into a tree in Pluckley while driving staff home from a leaving party.

Also in today’s podcast, clean operations are still underway after Friday’s storm battered part of the county.

Some people in Dover and Thanet were left in temporary accommodation after heavy rain left homes and roads flooded.

Nine fire engines have spent the night tackling a raging house fire, with warnings issued to the public.

Crews were sent to Douglas Road in Lenham yesterday and advised people in the area to keep windows and doors closed due to heavy smoke.

Revised proposals to station mobile homes on what was green belt land have been approved, with councillors stating their “hands are tied”.

Bosses voted in favour of changing the use of the plot in Shorne for Gypsy and Traveller occupation.

And, a Kent village has been left with no name – after a welcome sign vanished.

The metal sign in Hamstreet had been moved 300 yards further out of the village last January so a new estate could be incorporated in the boundary – residents say they’re losing their identity.