Start your week with the Medway Messenger – with all the latest news, sport and entertainment.

In our exclusive front page story, blundering council officials have apologised after writing to a man shortly after his death to tell him his benefits had been stopped.

Also in news, a police officer had appeared in court after head-butting his wife in front of their two children.

Read the latest on the Casino Rooms ‘cleavage weekend’ row and find out about a new exhibition at The Historic Dockyard, Chatham.

Our columnist Nikki White is celebrating her birthday (although she doesn’t reveal which one). Find out how she’ll be celebrating, along with all the usual ways we help start your week – with our reader photo, things to do, weather and more.

Plus there is Going Out, Coffee Break quiz page, TV highlights and our soap preview.

We’ve also got a round-up of county news and the chance for schools competing to win a £12,000 play fort to pick up another voucher.

In sport, Gills are counting down the games until the end of the season with an eight-point lead at the top of the table.

But while Martin Allen is in dreamland, Matt Fish warns ‘it’s not over yet’. We’ve got five pages of report and reaction from Saturday’s game, plus all the local sporting action.