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  • BROCKLEY: Youth shot outside Tickle Me takeaway

    A YOUTH is being treated in hospital after being shot outside a takeaway in Brockley this afternoon (April 9). Emergency services were called to the incident which happened in Brockley Cross at around 2.50pm outside the Tickle Me Caribbean

  • GREENWICH: Paul Martin stabbed to death with 'severe force'

    A FORENSIC pathologist has told the Paul Martin murder trial that the father of two was stabbed with “severe force”. Dr Kenneth Shorrock spoke from the witness box about his findings after carrying out a post-mortem examination on Mr Martin

  • Thames water now make a point of being outside the UK!

    I have just put the phone down on what must have been the most pointless phone call with the continuingly lack-lustre services of Thames Water farcical customer services department. (By the way I didn't insert the link in for T h a m e s water

  • CROYDON: Girls Night Out at Fairfield Halls

    LADIES, hold on to your knickers as the ultimate in girl's entertainment comes to Croydon's Fairfield Halls next month. Together with a great pop soundtrack, Girl's Night Out is a story of love, laughter and men in thongs which will have you

  • GREENWICH: Murder accused 'cannot remember' stabbing

    A 28-YEAR-OLD man accused of murdering father-of-two Paul Martin told police he suffers from manic depression and bipolar disorder. Today, the Old Bailey was read a transcript of a conversation between Detective Constable Chris Rayner from

  • DARTFORD: Celebrity psychic Derek Acorah comes to The Orchard

    CELEBRITY psychic Derek Acorah will be speaking to the dead live at The Orchard theatre in Dartford next month. The former medium on the hit TV show Most Haunted has become a household name and now stars in his own self-titled programme on Sky Real

  • DARTFORD: Man allegedly assaulted outside bar

    POLICE want to speak to witnesses to an alleged assault outside a bar in Dartford which left a man with head injuries. The alleged attack by two white men happened by Crush bar in Spital Street at around 2.15am on Easter Monday (April 5).

  • PUB REVIEW: Zero Degrees, 29/31 Montpelier Vale, Blackheath

    Decor *** (stainless steel is the new leather) Drink ***** (tasty beers made on site) Price ***** (all pints are £2.80) Atmosphere *** (clinical but fun) Staff ***** (exceptionally helpful and friendly) THEY say fetishists prefer to wear

  • Game review: NormalTanks - PlayStation Minis

    NormalTanks gets my nod for the daftest game title of the year so far. I wasn't sure what it meant when I first saw it and I'm still not sure after playing the game what the creators are getting at with this name. It's definitely not

  • NORTHFLEET: Armed robbery at bank

    POLICE were called to a bank in Northfleet this morning following reports of an armed robbery. A man went into Lloyds TSB in Perry Street with a black hand gun at around 9.30am demanding money. He is believed to have fled in a red Skoda

  • FOREST HILL: Two arrests in police drugs searches

    A 49-YEAR-OLD man and a woman, aged 18, have been arrested after drugs raids. Officers from Forest Hill safer neighbourhoods team searched two flats for drugs in Woodvale Road on March 31. In one of the flats officers seized large amounts of herbal

  • BEXLEY: Police rewarded for lifesaving efforts

    TWO Bexley policemen who tried to save a woman dying from a heart attack have received awards. PCs Mark Bird and Neil Finnis were on duty in Bexleyheath police station in December 2008 when a man came running in and said his 79-year-old mother

  • HIGHAM: Body found in woodland taken to hospital

    POLICE have taken the human remains found in a woodland in Higham to Darent Valley Hospital for further inspection. Forensic officers from Kent police had been searching the wooded area at the end of Canal Road after a body was found there

  • BEXLEY: Only days left to register if you want to vote

    PEOPLE have just days left to get their names on the register of voters, if they want to vote in the general election. Now the general election date has been fixed for May 6, the same day as the borough elections, the deadline to register with

  • BEXLEY: Home care trusts merge

    The charity which has been providing Bexley people with home care paid for by Bexley Council has merged with another charity. Care Partners Trust, based in Crayford, has become part of the Avante Partnership, based in Kent. Avante was

  • Temporary Restrictions

    www.bromley.gov.uk LONDON BOROUGH OF BROMLEY ROAD TRAFFIC REGULATION ACT 1984 AS AMENDED - SECTION 14 TEMPORARY PROHIBITION OF VEHICULAR TRAFFIC NOTICE OF INTENTION VARIOUS ROADS WITHIN THE LONDON BOROUGH OF BROMLEY 1. THE

  • GEMS

    SPRING INTO SONG WITH GEMS Gravesend Entertainment and Musical Society present their Spring concerts on Friday 7th and Saturday 8th May at St Mary’s Church Hall, Wrotham Road, Gravesend at 7.45 pm. Come along and enjoy an evening of popular

  • ST PAUL'S CRAY: Flasher admits dropping trousers

    A TEENAGE flasher has been given a community order after dropping his trousers in front of passing cars. Jobless Ryan Anderson, aged 18, of Chipperfield Road, St Paul’s Cray, admitted exposing himself to traffic in Orpington Road, St Paul's

  • WOOLWICH: Firefighters tackle two car fires

    Fire crews extinguished two car fires in Woolwich last night - in the space of three hours. Firefighters based at Woolwich fire station were first called to Thorntree Road at around 8.30pm and found a Nissan Micra on fire. They spent around half an