It is nine long months since 20-year-old Jake Johnson died in a Strood car accident, but his parents are still no closer to knowing what happened.

In today's Medway Messenger we have the first interview with John and Wendy, his parents, after an inquest brought them no closer to closure.

They paid tribute to their popular son, from Hoo, and asked the big questions which they say have put the greatest strain on their family.

On a lighter note, today's paper also features the pensioners who are holding their own Olympic Games, Bop the miracle Shetland pony who survived pioneering cancer treatment, and the Great Medway Broccoli Shortage.

There's also a gigantic 24 pages of special Olympic coverage ahead of the torch's arrival next Friday - don't miss your commemorative supplement.

Elsewhere we break the stories of the continuing fight for Medway's University Technical College, secretive £100,000 council pay-offs, the Cliffe Memorial Hall thief who won't repay a penny, the fears of RAFA Club members who are set to leave their venue and the scandal of the missing money at Rochester's Corn Exchange.

A selfish driver blocked a disabled cabbie's handicap bay for five days, a selfless van man was slapped with a £180 clamp - for delivering a parcel, and a "rogue" builder still has £5,000 he was given by a couple without a shred to show for it.

Then of course there's pages and pages of community news, school sports days, Gills' (work) trip to France and all the week's events and day out ideas in What's On.

All this and more is in today's Medway Messenger - just 90p.