The wait is nearly over. This year's updated Visit Sheppey Guide is about to be launched in time for the summer.

Kent's own holiday isle boasts a variety of hidden gems including award-winning sand and pebble beaches, breathtaking cliffs full of fossils and some of Britain's rarest birds nesting on its two marshy nature reserves.

The Island, just an hour's train ride from London, mixes holiday parks with a rich cultural and maritime heritage. It is the birthplace of British aviation, the inspiration of Charles Dickens and a haunt of diarist Samuel Pepys.

Off its coast lies the wreck of the infamous Second World War Richard Montgomery bomb ship making it a real Island of Adventure.

We are giving away more than 18,000 glossy 48-page booklets packed with information about where to go and what to do on the sun-kissed Isle of Sheppey.

Pick up your exclusive KM Media Group guide, sponsored by Leysdown Amusement Park Jimmy G's, free in next week's Sheerness Times Guardian.

Free copies will be available in selected supermarkets in Sheerness, Sittingbourne, Medway and south east London, holiday parks, pubs and cafes, Visitor Information Centres and KM offices.

There is also due to be an e-edition, available via www.kentonline.co.uk/sheerness