There's plenty of Christmas cheer in the Monday print edition of the Medway Messenger.

We've got the festive season well and truly under way with a 12-page special, which includes the chance for readers to share in £500 of prizes.

On the news front, we've got a good selection of stories:

• A teenager is hailing her boyfriend a hero after he gave chase to a drunken knife-wielding thug

• A council chief is calling for a campaign to re-open four shut-down Medway post offices

• A mum raised more than £6,300 to help the baby unit which brought her young son into the world

• A new supermarket has opened in Strood - but small traders are worried about their future

• There are pictures from the Chatham Christmas lights switch-on

•A thug set fire to to home of his ex-partner's mother four years after they split up

• A grieving husband says he may sue Medway Maritime Hospital over his wife's death

• Yobs are making life a misery for residents of a Chatham estate

• And, in sport, Gills are buried by four-goal Bury

Another great edition of the Medway Messenger. No surprise the Messenger is thebiggest-selling local newspaper in the Medway Towns