A COURT has been shown graphic images of the bodies of two murdered students today (April 27). Jury members at the Old Bailey asked for a break as they were shown pictures of Gabriel Ferez and Laurent Bonomo. The 23-year-old students
BEXLEY District Girls’ under-13s cricket team hosted Gravesend Grammar School in an indoor kwik cricket match on Saturday at Townley Grammar School for Girls. This was Gravesend’s first ever cricket match and they came away with a very creditable 91
YOUNGSTERS got to help scientists with a project to find out how snails have evolved over the last 40 years. Families took part in the snail hunt at Charles Darwin’s former home, Down House in Downe to aid The Open University team who are working on
LONDON Ghost Week organiser Martin Jeffrey talks to News Shopper's Leisure editor Kerry-Ann Eustice about spooky goings on in the capital.
A FOUR-year-old boy was sent flying through the air after the rider of an off-road bike ploughed into him in an alleyway. Police are now appealing for information regarding the incident which took place at around 3.51pm yesterday in the path
A DEVELOPER has agreed to give former car park land back to a council just four years after paying £1.5m for the site. At a meeting earlier this week, Barratt Homes agreed in principle to return the Lord Street multi-storey car park in Wrotham
FOODIES should get along to Lewisham Market on May 2 where health experts, chefs and nutritionists will be demonstrating healthy recipes and giving advice. The Lewisham Council-organised event will include tastings and recipe cards will be on offer
POLICE are appealing for help to find a missing 14-year-old girl. Danielle Hickey of Bellegrove Road, Welling was last seen by friends in the Downham area of Lewisham on Saturday April 18. She was reported missing after she failed to
DARTFORD ended their debut season in the Ryman Premiership in eighth spot after signing off with a 0-0 draw at Boreham Wood on Saturday. From the side which ran in four goals against Ashford Town on Tuesday, Tommy Osborne returned for Sean
RESIDENTS have protested outside a “hostel” set to open in May, which they fear will be a “nightmare next door”. Developer HFHA Group Ltd has planning permission to turn the empty offices inside Cygnet House in Windmill Street into a hotel
TWO students were stabbed 244 times in a “relentless and merciless onslaught” lasting two-and-a-half hours, the Old Bailey heard today (April 27). In his opening statement, prosecutor Crispin Aylett claimed Dano Sonnex and Nigel Farmer had
A GARDEN centre in Sidcup is open for business a day after a blaze tore through its main warehouse. Smoke from the fire could be seen for miles around as the building and an adjacent warehouse as Ruxley Manor Garden Centre, Maidstone Road,
DARTFORD Town U13s suffered cup agony, losing 6-5 after extra time in their League Cup final against Real Gima. The game went to Extra Time at 4 v 4 after Jack May, scoring three, had put Dartford Town into a 4-2 lead. However, two Real Gima goals
AN ILLEGAL immigrant was found clinging to the outside of a Eurostar train arriving in Ebbsfleet from Brussels. British Transport Police (BTP) officers arrested the man at the international station at around 7pm on Thursday (April 23) after
STUDENTS presented their MP with a petition of 800 signatures to ask the Government support education for the world’s children. MP for Beckenham, Jacqui Lait received the petition from the girls of Cator Park in Lennard Road, Bromley. The petition formed
COUNCILLORS are calling on MPs to back energy saving plans which would help the elderly and poorer households. A private members bill proposed making homes more energy efficient and offering vulnerable households lower fuel prices until their
A FESTIVAL celebrating Gravesham’s heritage was officially launched last week. On Wednesday (april 22) Gravesham Council leader Councillor Mike Snelling was joined by around 30 of the borough’s residents at The Chantry in Fort Gardens to launch the Heritage
THOUSANDS of youngsters paraded in north Kent to celebrate St George’s Day on Thursday (April 23). Around 700 schoolchildren from 15 Gravesham schools marched through Gravesend town centre, led by town crier Mark Taylor and accompanied by a
WELLING United finished the season with a flat performance against Dean Holdsworth’s Newport County. Having discovered in the morning Hampton & Richmond had been given the green light to participate in the play-offs, the news must have
BROMLEY ended their season at Dorchester on Saturday as they had begun way back in August with a 2-1 defeat, a result which enabled hosts Dorchester to stay in the Blue Square South for another season. Playing against a very strong wind in the first
Swine flu. We’re all going to die.........again. We now have yet another ridiculous panic, initiated by the irresponsible national media, to add to all of the other great delusions of our times that were going to result in the end of the world – the
A BUDDING Beckenham DJ has moved one step closer to performing his rap in front of royalty. DJ Talent, aka Anthony Ghosh, appeared on TV talent contest Britain’s Got Talent on Saturday night (April 25) and proved such a hit, music guru Simon
CHARLTON manager Phil Parkinson declared that the season couldn’t end soon enough after his relegated side were defeated 1-0 at Derby on Saturday. The Addicks saw their six-game unbeaten streak come to an end at Pride Park as Rob Hulse headed
ANGRY mums have been protesting on the roof of a primary school non-stop for five days now. Lewisham Bridge Primary School, in Elmira Street, Lewisham, will be replaced with an all-age foundation school on the same site, due to open fully in spring
Holmesdale entertained Erith and Belvedere in the final match of the 2008/2009 season coming off the back of two draws against Herne Bay and close rivals Hythe Town. The match against Hythe had seen Holmesdale suffer the blow of losing their
FIREFIGHTERS are still working at a fire in Luddesdown which has been burning for four days. They were called to the scene near the Golden Lion pub, Luddesdown Road, on Friday evening and have been working in shifts since then to tackle the scrubland
A BLAZE at a garden centre in Sidcup which filled the surrounding area with smoke yesterday (April 26) is being treated as an accident. The plume of black smoke as two warehouses burned at Ruxley Manor Garden Centre, Maidstone Road, could be
A CAR crush victim had to be airlifted to hospital after he was trapped between two vehicles in Orpington. The man is seriously ill at the Royal London Hospital, Whitechapel, following the accident in Mimosa Close. He was working at
A TODDLER is in hospital with multiple injuries after falling from a fifth-floor window. The two-year-old boy fell more than 25ft from the top of a block of flats in Lethbridge Close, Lewisham, and landed on a ledge on the second floor.
A MENTAL health trust has teamed up with Tate Britain to help under pressure carers. Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust will host a conference with the museum, showcasing the work the trust carried out for carers of people with mental health problems
