Your big value Medway Messenger is in the shops now, packed with the latest news, pictures and sport.

Free inside you'll find What's On, your leisure and TV guide including an interview with ex-EastEnder Shaun Williamson. Shaun's going to be in Aladdin in Chatham this year but before then he's stepping into some very famous shoes playing old lag Norman Stanley Fletcher in a stage version of Porridge.

Our Homes & Motors supplement is packed with properties and cars for sale and is the perfect place to start if you're looking to move house or change your vehicle.

Also inside this week is an eight-page independent schools special.

As well as all the local news we have picture specials from the police open day and the Will Adams Festival. It's Children's Hospices Week and we have a moving interview with a Chatham family about the help they get from Demelza.

Still on the subject of charities, find out how your good cause could be the Medway Messenger's charity of the year for 1010.

Old Codger Alan Watkins is firing off about holiday companies, the health and safety police and reminiscing about an early reporting assignment.

So many reasons to buy the Medway Messenger: out today