MEDWAY Council is exploring ways of transforming two of the area's most popular leisure centres.

It has agreed to bring both the Strand and Black Lion back under its own management to look at future options.

A report has said as much as £4 million could be needed to bring the venues up to the right standards.

The council's leisure director, Rose Collinson, told KM-fm that the vision is linked to plans for a new city centre in Chatham...