Your Christmas could be blooming lovely if you take advantage of a special offer in the new edition of the Medway Messenger . Find out how you can get £15.98 of Christmas roses for just the postage and packing price of £5.50. Keeping with the seasonal theme, you could win top tickets to Aladdin at the O2 in London, starring Paul O'Grady, or a fun, festive night out at the King Charles Hotel in Gillingham with the Take That experience.

Free leisure guide What's On has interviews with panto stars Gareth Gates and Jennifer Ellison, a look ahead to Christmas events this weekend (including Rochester's Dickensian festival and Christmas market) and a seven-day TV guide.

In sport, the Gills are looking forward to their second round FA Cup tie at League One Preston. If they avoid defeat they will be in the hat for the third round with the chance of drawing one of the big teams. Our 13 pages of sport also includes all the action from the Medway Messenger Youth League.

There's a festive feel to the main paper with a picture spread from the Santa Fun Run, grottos opening and why you may feel Prince Charming in the Central Theatre panto looks familiar.

Peter Cook's Medway Memories looks back at a crime of passion in Chatham and asks if you recognise anyone in a photo of a group pf dockyard pattern makers.

There's a two-page special on the Medway Business Awards and we meet the mum battling for a better future for her severely disabled son.

All this and lots more in the Medway Messenger - out today.