Your Medway Messenger is in the shops now with all the news, sport and plenty more.

You could win £500 to put towards your family's summer holiday, an exclusive winery tour and a case of English wine or truck racing tickets.

For younger readers, Fun Club has a family canoe adventure and Tomy dinosaur toys to be won.

Free leisure guide What's On has a full preview of Rochester's Dickens Festival, which starts today, an interview with X Factor boy band District 3 and your seven-day TV guide.

If you're looking for somewhere to live, Kent Homes is the place to start with hundreds of properties for sale.

There are 11 pages of sport with the latest close season news from the Gills, Medway Messenger Youth League action, athletics and cricket.

Picture specials include the Medway Mini Youth Games football tournament with hundreds of pupils taking part and former Gills star Nicky Southall opening a new play area.

Peter Cook's Medway Memories marks the 50th anniversary of the M2 and the Medway Bridge opening while Codger David Jones has discovered that bricklaying is considerably harder than he realised - and he has the scars to prove it.

All this and lots more in the Medway Messenger - don't miss it.