The App Store has only been open for just over a year but it has evolved so quickly that it is already possible to list certain elite games as classics. Undoubtedly one of the first classics of the iPhone and iPod platform is Trism from Demiforce. One
YASSIN Moutaouakil has left The Valley on transfer deadline day to join Motherwell in a six-month loan deal. Manager Phil Parkinson has made no secret of the fact the 23-year-old former France under-21 defender was likely to move on.
SHOP owners are calling for a road giving access to their stores to be re-opened because they are losing business. When the A2 was moved almost two years ago, Kent Highways Agency (KHA) blocked entry to Cross Lane East in Gravesend from Echo
HOLMFIRTH in West Yorkshire is best known as the setting for the popular TV series, Last of the Summer Wine, which will soon hit the stage at The Orchard Theatre in Dartford. Reporter VICKI FOSTER took a trip up north to see what it is like.
BLACKHEATH & Greenwich Bowls Club won the Kent County Cox Cup for the first time since 1998 with a 43-33 shots victory over Northfleet. The six-time previous champions B&G took an early grip on the final at five ends, leading 15-3 with Neil Hornsbys
THE 106th season of the Gravesend League kicks-off on Saturday with almost a full programme of fixtures. Premier Division champions Craggs Farm are at home to last season’s Division One winners Woodlands Athletic at the AEI ground. Newly-promoted
NAME: Lil Faze TYPE OF MUSIC: R&B, Hip Hop LINE-UP: Solo artist WHERE ARE YOU FROM?: South east London WHEN DID YOU START MAKING MUSIC?: I've been into music from when I was eight years old and started playing the violin
OVER ONE HUNDRED women had loads of fun at Westwood Masonic Centre, Bellegrove Road, Welling (Aug 22), and at the same time raised nearly £2,000 for Greenwich & Bexley Cottage Hospice. Tickets were snapped up fast by women supporters of
A MOTORCYCLIST has been killed in a collision with a car on an industrial estate in Slade Green. The dead man has been named as Ian James, aged 27, of Hazel Road, Slade Green. Police were called to Burnett Road, close to the junction with Dayton Drive
NAME: Kemz TYPE OF MUSIC: Baseline grime hip-hop LINE-UP: Solo artist WHERE ARE YOU FROM?: Lewisham WHEN DID YOU START MAKING MUSIC?: Well it was about two years ago now when I was just 14. One of my mates use to spit (
Starting on Thursday, the trust which runs Queen Mary’s Hospital, Sidcup, is holding a series of drop-in information sessions for the public to learn more about the changes being made to the hospital’s A&E services. South London Healthcare
CRYSTAL Palace have signed Claude Davis on a two-year deal. The defender, who played for the Eagles last season on loan, became a free agent recently after leaving Derby County and joins Palace on transfer deadline day. Davis played seven times during
DARTFORD’S poor record at Bridge Avenue was laid to rest on Bank Holiday Monday with a gritty, but deserved, win over AFC Hornchurch in a game played out on a rock-hard surface under a blazing sun. The home ground is in the centre of an athletics
Two exciting pieces of iPhone / iPod Touch news have arrived from Rockstar Games. First of all, Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars is being released on Apple’s mobile devices this autumn. The game, currently available for Nintendo DS and also coming to
A 34-YEAR-OLD man has appeared in court accused of killing his wife. Aminur Rahman Bachchu was charged with murder after 23-year-old Syeda Lipia Begum was found dead at their home in Hampton Crescent, Gravesend, on August 14. Bachchu
POLICE are appealing for information about a burglary in New Ash Green. Two bicycles and various hand and power tools were taken from the garage of a property in Punch Croft after its main door was forced open. The burglary is thought to have taken
Following the impressive win at Corinthian Casuals only two days before the Vickers put in their worst display of the season so far against a well organised Enfield Town side on a sunny Bank Holiday Monday. With Chris Tedder, Danny Penny, Gary
WELLING manager Andy Ford is determined to get the Park View Road club back on track after his side’s disappointing start to the campaign continued with a 2-0 defeat at Dover on Monday. The Wings have been decimated by a serious injury crisis
TWENTY people have won wormeries to convert food waste into compost thanks to a council-run competition. Lewisham Council's monthly magazine, Lewisham Life, asked readers to write in, using no more than 50 words, explaining why they should
With starting eleven regulars Danny Penny, Leroy Huggins, Gary Ward and Sam May sitting this one out the Vickers started the game with three seventeen year olds on the pitch in George Mitchell, Tom Bradshaw and Uche Ibemere. The game started
GYM equipment to be unveiled in a park was the “last wish” of a community leader. Frances Walker, who died in April aged 69, had helped raise £50,000 for the park exercise equipment. Ms Walker, who was chairwoman of both the Horn Park Forum and
YOUNGSTERS have been given the chance to earn back their free travel cards by taking part in environmental projects. From next week onwards young people in Lewisham who have had their cards taken away due to bad behaviour can retrieve them by volunteering
YOUNGSTERS have been given the chance to earn back their free travel cards by taking part in environmental projects. From next week onwards young people in Greenwich who have had their cards taken away due to bad behaviour can retrieve them by volunteering
A HOUSING association has admitted that closing a block of sheltered housing, home to dozens of worried pensioners, is aimed at saving the council money. Broomleigh Housing announced in June it would be closing Hayes Place because the block
FROM a loss last year to a £2,000 profit, the traditional bank holiday donkey derby, staged by Welling Round Table was a resounding success this year. The event, held in St Mary’s recreation ground in Bourne Road, Bexley Village, attracted well over
A TEENAGER has appeared in court following the stabbing of a Celtic football fan ahead of a Champions League match against Arsenal. The 19-year-old supporter was attacked in central London on August 26. Nicolas Marshall, aged 19, of
FRESH plans for a controversial £38m school have been submitted. Langley Park School for Boys, in Hawksbrook Lane, Beckenham, has sent the plans to Bromley Council as part of the Government’s Building Schools for the Future programme.
FIREFIGHTERS had to remove a car roof to rescue a man and a woman from a crash in Dartford. Three cars were involved in the crash at around 5pm on Saturday (Aug 29) at the junction of Princes Road and Shepherds Lane. Both passengers were taken to
AN arts organisation has been given almost half a million pounds in lottery funding to work with learning disabled youngsters in south east London. Shape has been awarded £490,000 over three years to help 500 young people explore training and
Felines are best known for climbing trees, long tails, sharp claws and a taste for birds. But some are a lot bigger than your average household kitty. SCOTT MULLINS attempts to solve the continuing mystery of News Shopper’s big cats. IT SEEMED
MUSICIANS blasted away on trombones and trumpets when a brass band played a free concert to a crowd in a park. The Tilbury Brass Academy performed at Fort Gardens, Gravesend, last Sunday (Sep 27) as part of Gravesham Council’s series of cultural events
RESIDENTS are being asked to vote on the future of an ambulance trust. The South East Coast Ambulance Service NHS Trust meeting at Temple Hill Community Centre in Temple Hill Square, invites people to give their opinion on whether the trust
A TRIAL scheme will begin in Bexley this month aimed at young people who misbehave on the buses. Young people aged 11 to 18 can have their Transport for London (TfL) Zip cards, which enable them to travel free on the capital’s buses, withdrawn
A MULTI-MILLION pound college redevelopment has been given the go ahead after initial fears a funding crisis would derail the project. The Learning and Skills Council has announced that £52m is to be allocated to North West Kent College.
