The idea of a museum for Medway has moved a step closer.

Cllr Herbie Crack (Lib) won the support of councillors on Medway Council's regeneration committee for a report to be prepared on the issue.

"It is about time we started looking at where the money is going to come from," he said.

No date has yet been fixed for when the report will be brought before the committee, it is now likely to in the middle of next year.

No dedicated museum exists in Medway.

The former Rochester City Council used the former Guildhall after pulling out of the Elizabethan Eastgate House.

Chatham has the Historic Dockyard which houses the Chatham Historic Dockyard Society collection, and is converting a derelict building to provide a home for the National Model Ship Collection and touring exhibitions from the National Museums.

In the early 1950s Gillingham councillors the town's museum collection at auction.