Today’s Medway Messenger features an impressive investigation into illegal drag racing, written by second year student Matt Charles.

His story delves deep into Medway’s underworld, exposing how 300 young petrolheads regularly meet on the Medway City Estate to compete in drag and drift races, including interviews with people who have taken part.

Some of the details will shock readers:

“Mark remembered standing on the side of the road when a ‘spinner’ [a hubcap] flew off a passing car and was inches away from hitting a girl.”

It’s great stuff – and Matt even took the pictures.

Matt’s hero Hunter S Thompson made his name interviewing (and photographing) the Hell’s Angels in California. So, after tackling the road gangs of Medway, perhaps Matt’s next step should be Fear and Loathing in the Casino Rooms?