A FORMER world boxing champ has presented a cheque of more than £60,000 to various armed forces charities. The TA and Army boxing club in Baring Road, Grove Park, raised £61,908 after holding a charity dinner boxing event in February.
CRYSTAL Palace will play Championship football next season after earning a draw at Sheffield Wednesday to consign the Owls to the drop in today’s final day decider at Hillsborough. The Eagles led twice through Alan Lee and Darren Ambrose but
POLICE have seized 480 cannabis plants from an address in Eltham. Officers recently searched a property in Chapel Road after an irregular heat source was detected in the loft area. An advanced drug cultivation process was found which
ARTWORK by children at a hospice is being auctioned to raise money for charity. The project, involving children from across the News Shopper area who use the Demelza hospice charity, has been set up to mark Children’s Hospice Week which runs
More then 250 people witnessed the institution and induction of Canon Michael Anthony Hart at St John the Baptist Church, Bromley Road, Catford. He is now team rector for the Catford, Southend and Downham team ministry, which includes St Mark
Doggy heaven has come to Swanley, with the 4Paws Hydrotherapy and Daycare Centre opening in Button Street Business Park. Owners can leave their pooch in the hands of staff at the indoor and outdoor play area for the day. For details, call 01322 668777
WHILE the rest of the country goes to the polls on Thursday, primary school pupils will be voting in their own mini-election. Students at Crockenhill Primary School in The Green will vote for their own pupil prime minister, choosing from candidates
The charity Concern For Chernobyl Children is holding a fundraising spring fair at St George’s Church, Church Street, Gravesend, from 11am to 3pm on May 15. There will be plants on display and a tombola. For more details, call Mary Jones on 01634 251967
WANNABE stars took to the stage to showcase their singing and dancing skills at a talent show. Auditions for Gravesham Has Talent took place at Woodville Halls in Windmill Street, Gravesend, last Sunday (April 25) and more than 30 acts attempted
IT was a lesson with a difference for pupils at Bexley’s Russian school. The students from the South East Russian Language School (SERLS) Friendship, based in West Street, Erith, were taken out of the classroom and off to Chelsea Football Club’s
STUDENTS have put forward their ideas to college managers in an attempt to keep their language school open. The school, run by Greenwich Community College, will close at the end of this summer unless ways to keep it running can be found.
THE Tories have thrown the election race in Bexley into uproar, after promising a Conservative government would keep Queen Mary’s Sidcup, as an acute hospital. Old Bexley and Sidcup constituency Conservative candidate, James Brokenshire says
