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"There is something in our human DNA which rewards us for singing"
What Steven asked John Mountford, Director of Music at the Rochester Choral Society.
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Steven Keevil
December Event Guide
Art! Film! Poetry! DickFest!
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Ed Jennings
11
"My parents were both fictitious"
What Steven asked Bill Lewis, founding member of The Medway Poets and the Stuckist art movement.
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Steven Keevil
New Chatham Docks plans have a sense of déjà vu
Plus Rehman vs a local mosque, a new SEN school for Gillingham, and more
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Ed Jennings
2
Six months of Labour-controlled Medway
Just how is it going for the administration so far?
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Ed Jennings
"I was successful in getting the council to acknowledge that the River Medway has rights"
What Steven asked Stuart Jeffery, leader of the Green Independent Alliance on Maidstone Borough Council
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Steven Keevil
Medway Council finds £5m, tries not to panic about the other £50m
Plus good and bad rail news, a giant cabbage, and Childish at the Cathedral
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Ed Jennings
Will a new manager mean a new start for Gillingham?
The Shouting Ben on the prospects for Gillingham's new manager, bigoted comments within Priestfield, and some reasons to be cheerful.
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Ben Hopkins
An evening of Medway Poetry and Song
A review of Billy Childish, The Singing Loins, and more at the Medway Little Theatre by music critic Stephen Morris
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Stephen Morris
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