In your big value Kent Messenger this week you can win a three-day course at the David Beckham football academy and get 50 per cent off your food bill at Pizza Hut as part of our Meal Deals promotion.

And it's Local Newspaper Week, which we celebrate with a look at how the KM has helped to support your community and we have a comment written by Tory leader David Cameron.

Our lead story this week is about a man's fight for life after he was stabbed during a night out in Maidstone town centre.

We also have a two-page special on Maidstone council's rejection of the KIG plans at Bearsted, MP Ann Widdecombe's views on the expenses crisis in Parliament, and two moving tributes to young people killed in car accidents.

Don't miss your Kent Messenger, out on Friday.