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St Bartholomew’s Hospital in Rochester is to be sold for redevelopment after services moved out.
People have been filling shoeboxes with gifts, food and essentials, to help bring a little festive cheer to those on the streets this Christmas.
A team of binmen who were sacked for collecting 'banned rubbish' have been given their jobs back.
Opposition councillors are calling for Medway Council to change its policy to help the homeless this winter.
Friends of missing teenager Ben Savage have held a candlelit vigil and laid flowers at the end of the pier where he was last seen.
Staff at the NSPCC are appealing for some help to brighten Christmastime for youngsters from across Kent who have been abused.
A week after Ben Savage went missing, his friends made a poignant show of solidarity at the nightclub where he had been on the night he disappeared.
Firefighters spent more than five hours tackling a blaze at a recycling plant after machinery connected to a 500 litre diesel tank caught alight.
There is still time to do your festive shopping at this year’s Rochester Christmas Market.
A former Rochester schoolboy will be working backstage at the final of the X Factor, after mingling with the stars behind the scenes of the ITV show.
People living on the streets of Medway could die as temperatures dive this winter, a volunteer has warned.
We might have just endured the first bitterly cold snap but there's a warning this winter could be devastating for hedgehogs.
Pupils held a fundraising day in memory of a much-loved classmate exactly one year after he sudden death.
Up to 250 people could be sleeping rough over the festive season but the Medway Messenger wants to make sure no one goes hungry or cold.
The health watchdog is visiting troubled Medway hospital for its latest inspection, after warning the trust it must improve or face a takeover.
A report into the sickness bug outbreak linked to Splashes swimming pool will not be published until January.
People in Medway are being warned not to take out a loan to cover Christmas bills and start 2017 in debt.
A group of binmen have been sacked for collecting “banned” rubbish but they claim they were just doing their job.
The boat found with £100,000 of guns on board - the UK's largest haul of automatic weapons - has featured on a TV show.
A backpacker who was injured when he was caught up in a frenzied knife attack which left two people dead now faces deportation.
