It might be a white hell out there but your Kent Messenger is out today keeping you updated on all the local news and sport.

We've got a full round-up of the big freeze, including first hand reports on Wednesday's rush-hour chaos which left drivers stranded for hours.

The KM reports on the aftermath of a row involving a school which confiscated pupils' coats in sub-zero temperatures this week. The story cause an online blizzard of complaints. We publish some of them.

And we reveal the new occupants of the former Woolworth's store in Week Street over a year after it closed.

It's a bumper package with your monthly lifestyle magazine Focus and Kent Business supplement inside too.

So at 70p it's well worth braving the cold to get your copy!