This week saw the South London & Kent Pool Alliance Founders Cup quarter finals and Rack Pack surprised everyone by whitewashing the league leaders, Pickwick 8-0. The Pickwick just didn’t turn up and they must have known it wasn’t their night
THE mother of a backpacker who was recently transferred to a UK jail from India has spoken of her lowest points in her seven year fight to get her son released. Teresa Malluzzo, of Upper Heath Lane, Dartford, told News Shopper she and her husband
Click here for A Day in Beckenham photo gallery Beckenham 03.02.11 This place should be middle England, suburban tranquillity a nice place to do a bit of retail therapy. What it actually is at this moment in time is a good place to buy a house
CHARLTON FC is inviting deaf children to take part in a free football festival. Boys and girls aged six to 16 can attend the event at the Addicks training ground, in Sparrows Lane, New Eltham, on March 12. Youngsters will take part in
A SPECIAL constable is in a coma following a crash in Orpington. Father-of-two Steve Smith, aged 48, was airlifted to the Royal London Hospital in Whitechapel after his motorbike was involved in an accident in Farnborough Way at around 8am
A GRANDFATHER from Orpington accused of conspiring to sell parts for Iranian missiles is one step closer to being extradited to the US. A judge at the City of Westminster Magistrates Court this morning decided to forward the US government’s
A GROUP set up to give new mums a social life has just celebrated its first birthday. GetupGo Mums is a social networking group set up by mum Monya Santos to try and end the isolation many women feel especially when they find themselves suddenly
Motorists are advised to expect severe delays after the northbound A282 at Dartford was closed to allow Kent police to deal with an incident. Junctions that are now open are: From Junction 3 of the M25 to the Dartford tunnel tolls
CONCERNS have been raised that the new Thames cable car could be in danger of being hit by a plane. The £25m cable car system will run over the River Thames from Greenwich Peninsula to Royal Victoria Dock in Newham - a distance of 1,100m.
LEWISHAM Council is urging people to give their views on the Controlled Drinking Order in place across the borough. In August last year the council began a six month pilot of the Designated Public Place Order, which enables the police to address
HUNDREDS of young Londoners have been recognised for their volunteer work at museums. Over the last 18 months people aged 14 to 24 have been helping museums with exhibitions and events as part of The London 2012 Cultural Olympiad programme.
NEVER Let Me Go is an extremely hard film to talk about without revealing spoilers, so if you are intending to watch it, then it might be better if you read the review afterwards. It takes place in a kind of alternative dystopian 1960s Britain
A NORTH Kent MP says he will never support giving prisoners the vote, after MPs overwhelmingly backed the current blanket ban. Dartford MP Gareth Johnson said that a vote in Parliament on Thursday (February 10) “sends a clear message that it
TWO men have been charged with the murder of a Romanian man in Sydenham. Officers were called to a bungalow in Mayow Road, at 2.10am following reports of a disturbance on February 9. Csaba Siklodi, aged 42, of no fixed address, was pronounced
FIREFIGHTERS were called out to a house blaze last night, battling the flames for around five hours. Six pumps, including crews from East Greenwich and Greenwich, attended the scene in Fingal Street, Greenwich, at around 8pm. Two adults and a
A MANUFACTURING site which has been in a north Kent town centre since 1889 could be transformed into a wharf-like residential complex, if plans are accepted. Essential Land, who are due to submit plans to Dartford Council on the future of the
ANOTHER round of cuts in council expenditure has been unveiled by Bexley. At its cabinet meeting, councillors approved an extra £2.7m worth of economies to balance the council’s budget for 2011/12. A number of government decisions have
IN a bid to build a new relationship with the borough’s private landlords, Bexley Council is hosting its first housing forum. The forum, which takes place on February 22, will be a chance for landlords to consider renting their properties to
