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Voice of the MP - Chatham and Aylesford

Farage football shirt offered as essay prize in Medway school

“They need to put the work in with the humans”

From page to stage

Autumn arrives early

The fight over Medway’s HMOs

“It became really evident how important it is to be connected to the community”

Top of the league

Councillor found to have bullied nursery boss insists ‘all is not as it seems’

“The times I've been accused of being drunk is unbelievable”

Playtime for grown-ups

Voice of the MP - Gillingham and Rainham

Flags, apparently

“We live rent free in their heads, they can’t get rid of us”

Teenagers won’t fix Medway’s turnout problem

When exceptional support is no longer exceptional

“We are humans at the end of the day”

Activity book is Medway’s newest export

Four years in

Infighting, resignations, and a ‘coup’ rock the Medway... Greens?

“Just because you put a wig on, it doesn't change who you are“

The Gills kick off a new season

On the fringe of Pride

VAT change fails to spark school exodus in Medway

“There was three of us in this marriage, but I was two of them”

Restored floatplane goes on display inside cathedral

Voice of the Opposition

Red routes suddenly start catching people in some places

“My baptism to life was seeing mankind at its worst”

Sea monsters, swirling organs, and Chatham pockets

Rochester Bridge Trust supports community projects

Three motions and you’re out

“Let's look for a brighter future”

Campaign to support unpaid carers in Medway

Neighbouring council plans temporary accommodation on Medway’s doorstep

“I've been able to do a lot more than I thought”

New Buddhist centre opens in Rochester

Changing Seasons

The Local Plan, once more

“I wanted to actually do something worthwhile”

Medway Council approves Local Plan for first time since 2003

We might actually get a Local Plan

“There is a huge amount of value in the work that musicians do”

Medway’s Superstars

Voice of the Leader

Budgens comes (back) to Medway

“My 15 minutes of fame were really uncomfortable for me”

Bands come together for Medway Foodbank

A night at the Masonic with the Masonics

Medway Council plans to improve traffic flow by blocking road

"It's really important for people to see that we're just the same as everybody else"

Medway film Pubmonkey swings onto streaming

Volunteer Medway at the Medway Little Theatre

Nightingales may face a fresh battle

“I tend to do things because they intrigue me”

Challenge travels from Medway to Dunkirk

Exploring Medway's mayoral treasures

Travellers win right to remain on Wigmore site

“If I'm meant to do something, I can feel it in my bones”

A change of weather for Theatre Royal

Hope and despair

Medway Council issues over £2m in traffic fines in first year

"I just feel really passionate about where I live"

Billy Childish and Patrick Butler hold Medway exhibition

Listen: Medway Question Time

Voice of the Police and Crime Commissioner

Medway housing more unaffordable than ever

“I'll stand on my track record of decades of service”

It’s Blooming Intra

Medway marks VE Day

What Reform’s big Kent win means for Medway

“I have got very down and dirty on occasions and lost paragraphs”

The Masonics play the Masonic

Beyond the Sunday service

Labour regains overall control of Medway Council

“If I'm prolific, it means that people keep coming back for more”

The code behind Medway Elects

Medway dodges another licensing hearing

“They are movies that will at some point get made"

Mastering the decks with Kent DJ Academy

Licensing hearing demonstrates why nothing gets done

“That does show the professionalisation of the party”

New exhibition explores the nearby natural environment

Voice of the MP - Rochester and Strood

Medway Matters Live hits different in Hoo

“I realised I liked flogging it more than I liked doing it”

The glory days of the Black Lion Skatepark

Medway Voluntary Action in action

Garden centre set for demolition to make way for houses

"Digital hasn't surpassed analogue"

The last leader of Medway?

Five years on

Our new North Kent future

"From what we offer here, there is a direct link into a professional world"

MP sleeps rough to raise money for homeless veterans

The Mess Room connects with the past

What’s going on at MCH?

“I got fed up with politicians in Westminster”

From lockdown to medals

Voice of the MP - Chatham and Aylesford

Medway’s gardens emerge into Spring

Strood loses out on promised Healthy Living Centre

“The 1940s were not that great for my family”

New video game pits Dickens vs Waghorn

MidKent College aims for zero

Innovation Park plan abandoned after £33m spent

“You make it sound so romantic”

Can Medway become a construction skills leader?

Chatham theatre faces threat from neighbouring development

Government lets Medway Council borrow another £27m

“Once I get onto my laptop, I'm in another world”

How a Rochester phone box became a gallery

Voice of the MP - Gillingham & Rainham

Medway Council ponders selling Brook car park, Upnor Castle, its own council chamber, and more

"The idea was to put independents on the council"

Bringing Luton together with lights

Volunteer Medway

Labour loses overall control of Medway Council

"Most people don't know about it"

Reform takes first Medway Council seats

Drawing life in Rochester

The Lower Thames Crossing is probably happening but it isn't certain yet

"A lot of people think they can self-publish and it'll be okay"

The ‘Dragon’s Den’ for Medway charities

£825,000 spent on 56 community projects, but some of them are a secret

LGBT+ group challenges Rochester Literature Festival

"There's been fires nearly every year since I came here”

Medway marks Holocaust Memorial Day

Complaints

Blue Bell Hill might get an upgrade at some point

“Local authorities are not allowed to open new schools”

144 pots for 144 women

By the numbers by-elections

Medway’s red route cameras aren’t catching anyone

“Apart from that, I haven’t really thought about it”

Managerial musical chairs return to Gillingham

Voice of the Opposition

By-election runners and riders

"That’s a very British phrase, we don't say that over here"

What lies ahead for Medway