The Kent Messenger is a weekly newspaper serving the mid-Kent area.

[3] It was sold to the Boorman family in 1890 after its then owners, the Masters brothers, were jailed.

[4] The Kent Messenger remains the flagship newspaper for the KM Group.

Along with the rest of the KM-owned papers, the Kent Messenger was given a design overhaul in May 2005.

The Kent Messenger is based at the KM Group's Maidstone office.