Some of Kent's most famous maritime tourist attractions are to get a revamp!

It's because tourism leaders from Kent, Medway, Belgium, France and the Netherlands have launched a £4.2million project to boost collaboration between tourism authorities on both sides of the Channel.

It comes after a successful bid for funding from the European Union.

Upnor Castle and Chatham's Historic Dockyard will be the first maritime sites to benefit. There will soon be improved disabled facilities and better accessibility for families.

The project is "about the way people who live by the sea lived their lives, earned their living, " says Councillor Jane Chitty, Portfolio for Tourism at Medway Council. "It's about the sea being important to our history and to our future."

"People can participate in the wonderful history of who went up and down the Medway and caused us a little trouble at the time!"

Ludo Valcke, head of the 'culture department' of the Province of Flanders, says the scheme is directed at children: "Children are the future...they are always very eager to learn things to hear things certainly about ships, water and sea and everything that has to do with it."

Other attractions that will be improved through the project include The Guildhall Museum in Rochester and The Great Lines Heritage Park.