In your Gravesend Messenger this week:

Beaten cabbie asks why police haven't looked at CCTV after he was beaten up and robbed

Gravesham council tax to rise in defiance of government freeze

MP Adam Holloway wants meeting with Prime Minister over airport plans

Thames crossing could be built in five years - but where will it go?

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