The latest edition of the Medway Messenger is in the shops a day early with all the latest news, pictures and sport - plus a must-read royal wedding supplement.

Our eight-page commemorative special looks at Medway's own royal wedding day couple, rolls back the years to street parties from Prince Charles and Lady Diana's big day and provides the indispensable guide to what's on in the Towns.

Don't miss Monday's paper for pictures from street parties across Medway celebrating the marriage of Prince William and Kate Middleton (pictured left).

As voters across the Towns prepare to go to the polls on Thursday, we have a three-page local election special. As well as a report from the Medway Messenger-organised pre-vote hustings event, we spoke to two candidates who are divided by politics and generations - aged 18 and 89!

In news, we speak to a Rochester mum who witnessed the human cannonball stunt go tragically wrong and tell how a student living in a caravan has lost all his possessions after the mobile home was burnt to the ground.

See if you can spot yourself in two pages of pictures from the KM-supported Festival of Steam and Transport.

In The Way We Were, Peter Cook looks back at pictures of bygone days of beach weather in Medway, while he remembers his reporting days covering the 1981 royal wedding in The Codgers' Club.

Sport has eight pages of local action, including a message from Gills boss Andy Hessenthaler to his team to hold their nerve.

All this and lots more in the latest edition of the Medway Messenger - pop out and pick up your copy today!