The season ahead looked like it was going to be a promising one for Welling United Youth with a small Bexley A League, the Bexley Cup and the much coveted London Cup all looking winnable. Pre-season saw lots of new faces replacing players that had left
Unless you’ve been hibernating or living under a rock for the past seven months, you will be well aware of the controversy surrounding the use of Greenwich Park as the venue of the three-day equestrian event in the 2012 London Olympics. Being well
EAGLES chief George Burley is confident of a strong performance from his side against another one of the Championship's promotion-chasing teams this weekend. High-flying Swansea are the visitors to Selhurst Park on Saturday and despite going into the
SEAN Scannell has suffered another injury setback and is set to miss Saturday’s game with Swansea. Scannell has yet to play a first team game this campaign after picking up a knee injury in pre-season but did play for the reserves against West Ham
In today’s society teenagers are often generalised by many as a troubled aged group with many problems. We are all branded with the same poor name which seems almost impossible to lose. However, I believe that the negative press surrounding teenagers
Today many people are worried about how larger girls are made to feel when magazines and TV promote size zero as perfection but what they fail to consider is how skinny girls might be affected. When you meet someone the first thing you expect
The campaign for a local Ice Rink started in 2003, seven years later the Council has ignored the residents desire for an Ice Rink and has conveniently appeared to have forgotten about the plans having delayed it until everybody appears to have given
IF YOU’VE ever had the feeling you were stuck between a rock and a hard place, spare a thought for poor Aron Ralston, whose remarkable survival story is the subject of Danny Boyle’s nerve-shredding thriller. After receiving an avalanche
THE 2010 Brands Hatch racing season reaches its climax this autumn with two exciting endurance sportscar events early next month. Kicking off this season finale is the Lotus 1,000km sportscar race on November 6, the first endurance thriller of this
WORLD of Golf in Sidcup are on the lookout for players to enter the British Minigolf Association’s Kent Open on November 14. Anyone can play in the Kent Open and registration is open until November 12. Consisting of three rounds and teeing off at
IT IS well known the US market has little patience for films which are not in the English language and so it’s not a huge surprise that one of the best foreign films of last year, the meditative and clinical vampire movie Let The Right One In has
PHIL Parkinson says he has no idea if Sheffield Wednesday keeper Nicky Weaver will be returning to The Valley on Saturday with something to prove. Weaver arrived in SE7 in 2007 following the Addicks’ relegation from the Championship and although a
Halloween, the night when the Celts believed that the borders between our world and the otherworld became thinner, allowing spirits to pass through into our world – However most just use it as an excuse to dress up in silly costumes and go to parties
A THUNDEROUS rumble, hot ash spewing into the sky; as the real Mount Merapi erupts on the island of Java, Indonesia, an adaptation of Philip Pullman’s story, The Firework-Maker’s Daughter featuring Mount Merapi, opens at The Churchill Theatre, Bromley
MEN in tights, frilly pink tutus and a coma-inducing running time are perhaps the first thoughts which spring to mind for non ballet enthusiasts. But there’s certainly no chance of catching forty winks in Darren Aronofsky’s taut psychological
Over the past few decades, it has almost become a householder’s duty to prepare for the 31st of October either by purchasing sweets to sit readily by the front door or by locking that door and ignoring the eager children already with the words ‘trick
SCHOOLCHILDREN from Orpington have been given art supplies from Mayor of London Boris Johnson after excelling in a competition. Pupils at Warren Road Primary School received the prizes from the mayor at City Hall after taking part in the National Association
HE first set foot in Kemnal’s Own Scout Group headquarters in 1949 as a 13-year-old Scout. Now, 61 years later, John Bilke has been elected president of the Scout group. At 21, Mr Bilke offered his services as an assistant Scout leader
Households of Bromley residents are being contacted individually with information about the new collection service now including food waste that will commence during October. The scheme is designed to minimize the amount of landfill tax paid and
KENNY Jackett is happy with the progress Millwall have made in their debut season back in the Championship. The Lions sit ninth in the table and just two points off the play-offs after 13 games ahead of Saturday's trip to Ipswich Town. Jackett has
YOUNGSTERS will be making bangers before watching big bangs on Guy Fawkes Night when they take part in a sausage festival. Year Five pupils from St Joseph’s School in Plaistow Lane, Bromley have been invited to Villagers Sausages in Beckenham High Street
STELLA English found herself called back to the boardroom for the first time this series, but escaped being one of the final three. The Thamesmead investment banker's winning form came to an end when despite racking up sales of £76,518, team
LIONS boss Kenny Jackett wants his players to build on their recent revival by beating Ipswich at Portman Road on Saturday. Millwall ended an eight game run without a win with a 1-0 victory at Crystal Palace a fortnight ago in their last
A MAN who became fascinated with William Morris and his Arts and Crafts movement as a boy, has just landed his dream job. James Breslin has been appointed the new custodian of Red House in Bexleyheath, the home commissioned by Morris and where he
After spending years grappling with frizzy hair and buying practically every product on the shelf I was thrilled to read about an exciting new hair treatment on the market which had been used and loved by celebrities such as Halle Berry, Lindsay
HOMECARE workers in Bexley could see their pay and conditions slashed under proposals from their new employers. The workers, many of them women who have provided care to the borough’s elderly and disabled for more than 20 years, could also lose their
Ravensbourne has completed its six year, £70m relocation to the Greenwich Peninsula. Reporter NINA MASSEY went along to find out what the new facilities have to offer. WITHIN touching distance of the O2, Ravensbourne college is a purpose built
ON the stroke of 10am, Bexley’s Red Watches walked out of their fire stations and onto the picket lines. Saturday (October 23) saw the first of the Fire Brigades Union strikes in protest at plans to change firefighters’ shift patterns Firefighters
SIX people have been released on police bail following the trashing of a police office in Thamesmead. The six, aged 16, 17, 19, 23 and two men aged 27, were arrested on suspicion of arson after the office in Limestone Walk, was broken into
FIREFIGHTERS were called to a car fire in Crystal Palace last night (October 27). The Volkswagen Polo was being driven along Anerley Hill at around 10pm when part of the vehicle caught alight. Both people who were travelling in the car
AN INVESTIGATION is underway after a taxi caught fire in Plumstead this morning (October 28). Firefighters took around five minutes to put out the flames in the vehicle's dashboard after being called to Sandbach Place at just after midnight. It
IN its toughest ever budget Bexley Council is looking to save £1m a month over the next three years and shed around 280 jobs, to live within its means. Council papers due to be released at the end of the week will reveal the scale of the cutbacks being
A HOSPITAL trust was accused of “clinging to A Picture of Health like a drowning man” as furious councillors confronted trust chiefs about the future of Queen Mary’s Hospital, Sidcup. Bexley Council’s health scrutiny committee was scathing in its criticism
Cray Wanderers host Maidstone United in the 2nd qualifying round of the FA Trophy at Hayes Lane on Saturday (3pm). In the previous round, Cray beat Wingate & Finchley 2-1 to set up an eagerly-awaited all-Kent clash with Maidstone. The
