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- ↑ "Medway ward population 2011" . Retrieved 30 September 2015.
- ↑ Nelson, Katie May (16 December 2022). "Councillor Sijuwade Adeoye joins Conservatives on Medway Council after defecting from Labour" . Retrieved 19 December 2022.