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

We have a must-enter competition for the new-look Tesco Express store in Gillingham, which opens on Monday after a refit. Five readers are in line for £100 to spend at the superstore.

There is another chance to enter Kids Galore - our photo shoot starts at Hempstead Valley on Tuesday.

And it's your chance to vote for Kent Pet of the Year. The entries are printed today in a 20-page special.

What's On brings you everything you need to know to keep your family entertained this half-term and the chance to win 10 pairs of tickets to see a Circus of Horrors show.

In news, we have a story about the shoplifter who has been banned from every store in UK - apart from Morrisons to do her gran's shopping and a chemists to get her methadone prescription.

We also tell of a campaign to bring HMS Chatham's bell home to Medway and anger over plans for a statue of Charles Dickens in Portsmouth.

There are two pages of pictures from Chinese New Year celebrations in Chatham High Street. And see if you can spot your child in pictures from a National Storytime Week event at Warren Wood Primary School.

In The Way We Were, Peter Cook looks back at the greengrocer who pounded the narrow streets of Chatham from the 1930s to 1950s and, in The Codgers' Club, Alan Watkins is sceptical about David Cameron's 'Big Society'.

Sport has 12 pages of local action, including all the latest from the Medway Messenger Youth League in Goal!

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