Kent Messenger publication

Kent Messenger

The Kent Messenger is the largest selling weekly newspaper in the UK. (ABC Jul/Dec 2007)

The paper began life in 1859 as the Kent Messenger and Maidstone Telegraph.

It has been in the ownership of the Boorman family since the 1890s.

The Kent Messenger is the Maidstone-based flagship weekly of the KM Group and sells throughout the county with editions for Maidstone, Medway, Malling, Weald, Sittingbourne and County.

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The Team

Bob Bounds
Senior Editor - North and West Kent
Tel: 01622 695666
Sue Huntley
Regional Media Manager
Tel: 01622 695777
shuntley@thekmgroup.co.uk
Cathy Tyce
Community editor
Tel: 01622 695666
Matt Ramsden
Community editor (Swale)
Tel: 01795 580300
Nikki White
Senior news editor
Tel: 01622 695666
Fiona Cooper
News editor (Weald and Malling)
Tel: 01622 695666
Sarah Hills
News editor (Sittingbourne)
Tel: 01634 227803
Rob Bailey
Assistant news editor
Tel: 01622 695666
Helen Wagstaff
Chief Reporter
Tel: 01622 695666
Angela Cole
Reporter
Tel: 01622 695666
Mary Graham
Reporter
Tel: 01622 695666
Emily Hall
Reporter
Tel: 01622 695666
Nathan Rao
Reporter (Malling)
Tel: 01622 695666
Georgina Llewellyn
Newsdesk administrator and competition coordinator
Tel: 01622 695666
Larry Williamson
Newspaper sales manager
Tel: 01634 227977
lwilliamson@thekmgroup.co.uk
The Team

Bob Bounds

The Team

Sue Huntley

The Team

Nikki White

The Team

Rob Bailey

The Team

Helen Wagstaff

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Floristry students from Mid Kent College display their work at All Saints' Church, Loose. Picture: Mid Kent College
Floristry students from Mid Kent College display their work at All Saints' Church, Loose. Picture: Mid Kent College

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Floristry students from Mid Kent College display their work at All Saints' Church, Loose. Picture: Mid Kent College Mushrooms in Maidstone. Picture: Colin MIles, School Lane, Bapchild Lion at the WIldlife Heritage Foundation, Smarden. Picture: Dominic Wilson, of Springfield Road, Larkfield Rowing on the Medway at Allington. Picture: John Wardley Bella the retired shirehorse, now living at the Museum of Kent Life in Sandling. Picture submitted by the Museum of Kent Life. Pigs cooling off. Picture: Michelle Richards, of Headcorn Road, Grafty Green Hay bales looking like aliens in a field near Frittenden. Picture by John Westhrop

Figures

  • Readership Figures: 228,689 (AIR JICREG* Jan 2008)
  • Cover Price: 60p
  • Supplements Weekly: Home, Motor,
    What's On, Sport
  • Monthly: Kent Business, Focus Magazine
  • Editions: Weald, Malling, Maidstone, Medway, Sittingbourne, County
  • Frequency: Weekly, Friday
  • Issues: 52 per year
  • Total Circulation: 51,810
  • ABC (Audit Bureau of Circulations)
  • Audit Period: Jul - Dec 2007

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