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We've got together with Starlight Studios and Hempstead Valley Shopping Centre to offer every reader a 10x8in professional portrait worth £20 - absolutely FREE, no purhcase necessary.

Our must-read What's On supplement has another great competition - your chance to win West End theatre tickets to see Cool Hand Luke plus a hotel stay.

Jobseeker George Gibbs, 83, was determined to find work - and now he has, thanks to the Medway Messenger! Our story in Monday's paper was spotted by a millionnaire famous for hiring older workers - and he offered George a job as a van driver.

Have you been caught out by the great 5p parking con? The Messenger can reveal that motorists in Medway are being duped into paying more for their parking. Pay and display machines across the Towns clearly state they do not accept five pence pieces - but we have discovered they DO.

And we have the heartwarming tale of three little boys who fought for survival together when they were born prematurely - and will now support each other on their first day of school. Twins Reece and Matthew Shadick and Callan Durkin spent three months at a special care baby unit. Four years on, they will be side by side once more as they join All Faiths School, Strood.

Fun was the aim of the game at charity events in both Halling and Cliffe at the weekend - we've got two pages of pictures. We also have pictures from a knockout fun day in aid of St Mary's Boxing Club.

In The Way We Were, Peter Cook tells how workmen discovered gold watches lost in the Second World War and, in the Codger's Club, says don't be too hard on Timothy Spall for getting stuck off Stangate Creek - he's done it himself!

Sport has all the latest news from the Gills, including how Hess believes a more ruthless edge in attack will push the club on to another level.

All this and lots more in the latest edition of the Medway Messenger - pop out and pick up your copy today!