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It’s time to enter your little ones into this year’s Medway Messenger Cute Kids competition, with a chance of winning a share of £2,000.
Nigel Beverley, the new stand-in boss at Medway Maritime, is expected to earn more than £700 a day as he takes over the troubled NHS trust this week.
People living in Rainham will live five years longer than people who live just a few miles away in the centre of Chatham, according to new data.
The chairman and chief executive of Kent's biggest hospital - placed in special measures last year - are both to leave, it has been announced.
Pupils are developing their own smart phone app after Dragon’s Den star Theo Paphitis invested £1,000 in their idea.
Sleepers braves biting winds to raise almost £7,000 for two good causes at Medway's annual sleep-out.
A hospital's A&E department is to undergo a major overhaul - after it was branded "totally unsuitable" last year in an NHS report.
Medway Foodbank received almost four tonnes of food as a result of the Medway Messenger’s Christmas appeal.
A mother is taking legal action against a hospital after her daughter was born stillborn.
Some patients are going to Medway A&E more than 50 times a year, figures have revealed.
Councillors are calling on the NHS to reverse the decision to shut Medway’s mental health ward.
Medway's food hygiene bosses said they have turned the service around since a damning report placed the authority among the worst in the country.
After weeks of being at her son’s bedside watching him fight for his life, a mum from Strood was finally able to hear her little boy whisper hello.
Actress Sheridan Smith is to play a Kent woman murdered by her husband in an upcoming ITV drama about her killer.
An animal sanctuary is appealing for donations after an elderly Shetland pony was injured in the recent storms.
A grieving daughter has formally complained after her father suddenly died on a hospital ward shortly after a fall.
A daughter says she never got to say a proper goodbye to her terminally ill father who died after falling from his hospital bed.
Fifteen jobs for young people will be created at BAE Systems in Rochester as the company recruits a record number of apprentices.
Little Oakley Orange has been fighting for his life after an allergic reaction to medication he was prescribed by a doctor. Warning: Graphic picture
Readers of the Medway Messenger have shown remarkable generosity in their support for our Christmas appeal in aid of Medway Foodbank.
