Don’t miss your Friday Medway Messenger today – packed with all the latest news, sport and entertainment.

We’ve got an exclusive interview with 24-year-old Russell Baker who collapsed with heart failure earlier this year. He has thanked the two men who saved his life as he celebrates his birthday with them.

We speak to Harry Potter extra Phil Wright, who starred as a giant in The Deathly Hallows, who has been told he his weight could kill him.

You can meet the woman in charge of your kids – as Medway’s new director of children and adult services gives her first interview.

In sport, Gills boss Martin Allen explains the team’s ‘you pay, we play’ philosophy and we’ve got all the action from the Medway Messenger Youth League.

The Medway Messenger is in the shops now for just 95p.