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The Great Get Together 2026

A group of volunteers or all ages pose after litter picking, above the Great Get Together logo and the words "We're Supporting the Great Get Together Inspired by Jo Cox"

On Saturday 20th June, communities around the UK will be celebrating everything that connects our communities as part of The Great Get Together weekend, and naturally that includes our shared green spaces too!

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Cadets Take to the Streets for FoRCE

Five police cadets at Rochester Riverside holding the leaflets they helped us deliver

Our multi-skilled partners from the Medway Volunteer Police Cadets once again turned out to help us spread the word about our endeavours to maintain and improve Esplanade Gardens and Churchfields.

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A Hero Remembered: Percy Gordon and Rochester’s Tribute of 1912

A bronze plaque adorned with angels and reading "TO THE GLORY OF GOD - THIS TABLET WAS ERECTED BY LOCAL PUBLIC SUBSCRIPTION TO RECORD THE HEROISM OF PERCY HENRY GORDON OF BERMONDSEY, LONDON, WHO WHILE VISITING THIS CITY ON GOOD FRIDAY APRIL 5th 1912 LOST HIS LIFE IN BRAVELY RESCUING A LITTLE GIRL FROM DROWNING - GREATER LOVE HATH NO MAN THAN THIS"

On Good Friday of 1912, an act of heroism took place on the waterfront which would touch the hearts of thousands of people. In our first ever Features article, our reporter Natalia takes a look at the event which would come to be known as the Good Friday Tragedy.

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