• The STG is read by an average 21,269 people a week from a population of 38,000*.

• It is stocked in 32 newsagents and stores across the Island.

• Most copies - an average of 2,000 - are sold in Tesco, Sheerness.

• It was purchased by the Kent Messenger Group (KMG) in 1987.

• It has been printed, in recent times on Wednesdays, at the company's HQ in Larkfield near Aylesford.

• It became the Times and Guardian in 1939 when the Island's two papers merged.

• It changed from broadsheet size to a tabloid in 1976.

• As a rough estimation, our photographers take up to 50,000 pictures a year.

Of these, they submit an estimated 15,000 images for consideration for use.

• During the course of the paper's history, there have been six monarchs and 28 prime ministers.

*AIR JICREG Oct 2007

For the paper's actual anniversary edition in January 2008, the team were fortunate to receive messages of goodwill from Her Majesty the Queen and the Kent Messenger's chairman Geraldine Allinson.