Blackheath 25 v Sedgley Park 9 A terrific second half display from Blackheath, to make it three wins from their last four outings, but never easy against a spirited Sedgley Park. After turning around at the interval with a slender one-point
A UKULELE expert is hosting two more pub play-alongs after the first one was a plucking success. Steve Ball is holding ukulele nights at the Bull Inn in Main Road, St Paul’s Cray, at 8pm on February 17, and The Black Horse in Albert Road, Bexley
A SCOUT group and rotary club have raised more than £1,400 with a horse racing night. More than 150 people packed into Crofton Halls in York Rise, Orpington, for the event organised by the 3rd Orpington Pathfinder Scouts and the Rotary Club
A COMMUNITY hall used by a pre-school is due to open again next month after a refurbishment. Mottingham Community Hall in Kimmeridge Road is expected to re-open next month following extensive work to the building after it was declared unsafe
TWO pensioners are celebrating after their fundraising work drove the Poppy Appeal in Orpington to a record high. John and Linda Perry have discovered the £38,505 they helped raise in November for The Royal British Legion was the most ever
TO COMBAT huge funding cuts, Kent police has come up with a plan to secure front line policing. The police force will increase the number of neighbourhood officers out on the streets from 800 officers and staff to 1,200 in a bid to redesign its policing
POLICE have named the man stabbed to death in Sydenham as 24-year-old university student Samuel Guidera. Mr Guidera was found collapsed in the street at the junction of Bailey Place and Newlands Park at around 9.55pm, around 200m from Penge
A HOUSING association has been accused of “exploiting” leaseholders by forcing them to pay a “ridiculous” amount of money for an intercom door system. Broomleigh Housing Association has ordered the leaseholders in its 54 flats in Tylney Road
Greenwich Council has been accused by angry parents of breaking promises to their disabled children. Willow Dene School moved into temporary buildings in Swingate Lane, Plumstead, when it was formed in 2001, with a promise by Greenwich Council
INTERNATIONALLY renowned musicians are coming to Bromley for a concert to raise money for a housing charity. String ensemble The Erdesz String Trio will play at St Mary’s Church in College Road, Bromley, at 7.30pm on March 12 to raise money
A BEXLEY primary school has become the first in the borough to combine sport with a foreign language under the guidance of a Premier football club. Ten and 11-year-olds at Brampton Primary School in Bexleyheath are taking part in the Arsenal
A BROMLEY man has been arrested in connection with a violent kidnapping in Croydon in May last year. Josh Little, aged 22, of Spencer Road, was arrested on Thursday following a police appeal to locate him. He is suspected of being involved
POLICE have launched a murder investigation after a 24-year-old man was stabbed to death in Sydenham last night. Officers were called at around 9.55pm after the man collapsed in Bailey Place, off Newlands Park. He was taken to hospital
A FURIOUS commuter says he would rather pour his money down the drain than pay for his shabby train service. Graphic artist Jeff Osborne, 37, has been travelling from Sidcup railway station to London for nearly 20 years and claims the standard
Cray had three goals disallowed for offside, and were held to a 1-1 draw by basement club Folkestone. TREVOR MULLIGAN writes: Cray were the more prominent in attack in the opening period, whilst their hosts relied more on breakaways. The Wands
VICTORY at Hampton kept Welling United well placed in their play-off ambitions whilst deepening the hosts’ relegation worries. Again Jamie Day was forced to shuffle his threadbare squad and after the abandonment in midweek Anthony Acheampong
