AWARD-winning News Shopper always brings you the biggest stories first. Here is a selection of the news hitting the headlines this week. SWANLEY & ORPINGTON: Car scam lynchpin jailed for six years THE lynchpin of a £38m car scam operation has been jailed
MINIMUM prices should be imposed on alcohol to curb binge-drinking, the Government's top medical adviser is expected to urge. Professor Sir Liam Donaldson will reportedly call for a ban on drinks being sold for less than 50p per alcoholic unit
BRIGHTLY dressed congaing children in West Wickham raised almost £420 for Comic Relief. The pupils at Wickham Common Primary School, Gates Green Road, paid £1 each to come to school wearing clothes which were predominantly red rather than their
PORT of London Authority (PLA) staff will be gathering tomorrow to celebrate the organisation’s 100th birthday. PLA pilots, boat crews, vessel traffic services officers, divers, salvage teams and shore staff will meet at locations between Richmond
SOAKINGS, sweating and shaving were all in a day’s work for North Kent police as they raised around £500 for Comic Relief. PCSOs Tony Quilter and Linda Down got sponge after sponge thrown at them at Longfield Academy School, Main Road, Longfield
On this day in... 1909 – American entrepreneur Mr Selfridge opened Britain’s first department store on Oxford Street in London. He died in poverty, but before that he visited his department store every day to see what he once had. 1939 – Hitler entered
WITH the numbers of jobless in Bexley on the rise, organisers of this year’s churches’ walk in aid of Bexleyheath’s centre for the unemployed, are hoping for more support than ever. This will be the 16th annual walk for the BCU Life Skills centre, which
WHEN it comes to cutting red tape, Bexley Council is up there with the best of them. It has just picked up another Government’s Beacon authority award, this time for reducing its bureaucracy. Bexley’s was among four shortlisted authorities
TRANSPORT for London (TfL) has launched a spring campaign to reduce the number of motorcyclists killed or injured in the capital. Motorcycle safety adverts can be seen on ITV, C4 and Five, and heard on radio stations throughout London.
A BROMLEY school has been recognised as one of the country’s outstanding schools for the fourth time in a row. Ravens Wood School in Oakley Road was placed alongside top schools in an annual list published by Ofsted. The school inspectorate
A PARENT teacher association has donated around £2,000 worth of equipment to the school it supports. Friends of Westgate has spent the last year raising money through a variety of events, including a Christmas fair, to buy resources for Westgate Primary
YOUNGSTERS celebrated world book day with a visit from a children’s author. Anthony Browne visited pupils at St Stephen’s Catholic Primary School, Ruskin Avenue, Welling on March 5 to talk about his writing career and sign copies of his books
A RESIDENTS' association will mark its 75th anniversary with a speech from a former TV news presenter. Shortlands Residents' Association was set up in 1934 to press the council at the time to increase local school places. And to celebrate
Sittingbourne 1-3 Cray Wanderers, Fifth-placed Sittingbourne became the latest team to feel the force of Cray's surge towards the championship, as the Wands cruised to their seventh win in seven games since the start of February. Dominating
