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Sarah Farrow with Catch My Drift at her High Halstow farm
Sarah Farrow with Catch My Drift at her High Halstow farm

The latest edition of the Medway Messenger is in the shops now with all the latest news, pictures and sport.

Forget Cambridge and Oxford - Medway universities held their own boat race on a blustery Saturday morning.

Two races got underway from Cuxton, with a team from the University of Greenwich at Medway winning the men's race and a women's team made up of students from Greenwich, Kent and Canterbury Christ Church universities winning the women's race. See today's paper for pictures.

A couple who own a High Halstow farm are celebrating after the extremely rare birth of twin appaloose horses. The colts, named Loci and Catch My Drift, were born to mare Barbie at Wood View Farm. It is unusual for the breed, made famous in the 1966 Marlon Brando film The Appaloosa, to give birth with experts believeing they are not designed to successfully carry two foals through pregnancy.

And we tell of the bitter neighbourhood row that has erupted over plans to put up a mobile phone mast in a garage.

Jenni Horn brings you Going Out, two pages of all the latest news on the local entertainment scene, and the week's TV highlights are in Box Clever.

There are quizzes, crossword and Sudoku on our Coffee Break page and columnists Nikki White and kmfm DJ Andy Walker are both in action.

Sport has full coverage of Friday night's boxing at Medway Park. Chatham heavyweight Tom Dallas completed a 15th straight win as big-time boxing returned to the Towns.

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

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