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The newspaper that was to become the Kentish Gazette
first came off the press in Canterbury in 1717. That
makes the Kentish Gazette the oldest title within the
Kent Messenger Group - indeed the second oldest in the
country.
In 1942 its offices in St George's Street were bombed
along with most of that part of the city in a devastating
Luftwaffe attack. Amazingly that week's paper came out
with a full report of the bombing thanks to the help
of the Kent Messenger which allowed staff to use its
unscathed offices.
The Kentish Gazette became part of the KMG family when
it was acquired in 1980.
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