LIKE a manufactured pop band from a reality television show, every year celebrities from ITV1’s Dancing on Ice get on the road and embark on a nationwide tour. With more glitter than pop vixen Ke$ha and ageing rockers Kiss put together the
Hundreds of mourners from admiral to able seaman have joined mourners and heartbroken family for the funeral of a Royal Navy officer shot dead on a nuclear submarine. Lieutenant Commander Ian Molyneux, 36, from Standish, Wigan, a father
STUDENTS looking for the perfect prom outfit can get advice at the Glades shopping centre in Bromley. As prom nights become more and more widespread for school leavers in the borough, the shopping centre is offering free tips on dream dresses and top
A TEENAGER who set fire to a home while three other people were inside has been given an interim hospital order today (April 28). Under the terms of the order Rachel Sroka, of Clovelly Way, Orpington, will be detained at a medium secure mental health
Police in north Kent are appealing for information following an unprovoked assault in a Gravesham park. The victim, who is 20 and from Gravesend, was with family and friends in the recreation ground off Cedar Avenue, Gravesend, when he was
BRACE yourself for a week of pant-wettingly funny stand-up, burlesque and silent disco clubbing as the Greenwich Comedy Festival returns for its third hilarious year. The week-long event at the Old Royal Naval College has seen comedy heavyweights
AN overturned lorry carrying scrap metal has caused long delays on the M25 today. The M25 entry slip road is closed anticlockwise at J1a but is expected to open around 4pm. There is congestion to J3 and the M20 Swanley Interchange.
DO YOU dream of singing on stage or performing with a full orchestra? This is your chance to get involved in Blackheath Halls’ annual opera project. Following the huge success of last year’s production of The Elixir of Love, the Halls is staging
This week's Pet of the Week at Foal Farm Animal Rescue Centre is Jeremy, a 7-year-old tabby cat seeking a loving new home. Foal Farm's cat team say that Jeremy can be a 'bit of a handful' and so will need an experienced cat owner to look after
AN alcoholic man was charged with drink driving as well as stealing a car and a dog the day before he was attacked in his home, a court heard. Ted Shaxted, of Wallis Park, Northfleet died on December 16, 2007 aged 36. Kelvin Horlock,
PRIME Minister David Cameron is the latest politician to make an appearance in Gravesham in the build up to the local elections. Mr Cameron arrived with his entourage at Little Pebbles Sure Start centre in Ordinance Road on April 26 looking
NORTH Kent residents will take to the polls next week to vote in their local councillors and take part in a national referendum. Polling stations in Dartford and Gravesham will open on May 5 from 7am until 10pm and residents should have received a card
A 48-YEAR-OLD man has appeared in court charged with murdering a Downham woman in 2004. Thuy-An Mao, who was arrested in Lewisham on April 19, appeared at Wolverhampton Crown Court today (April 28) for a committal hearing. News Shopper
A CHARITY is urging north Kent residents to donate household items as part of a week long challenge. National charity Scope will be running the challenge from May 9 to May 15 to collect items to sell in their charity shops. Anything
A 50-YEAR-OLD man has pleaded guilty to possessing pornographic images of horses and children. Alan Church of Bartlett Road, Gravesend, appeared at Maidstone Crown Court on April 28 to answer six charges of possessing indecent images.
A LAW firm in Shortlands is one of the first in the country to be recognised in a new scheme to identify quality help in the home buying process. Fortress Law in Beckenham Lane has secured membership of the Law Society's Conveyancing Quality Scheme (
PRIMARY school children taking part in royal wedding week are celebrating after receiving a letter from the Queen. More than 450 youngsters at Cardwell Primary School, in Frances Street, Woolwich, have spent the last two days making royal wedding
A POLICE scheme which gets young people out of crime and into athletics has been given Olympic approval. Met-Track, which runs at schools in Bromley, has become part of London 2012’s Truce programme which recognises projects that make the world a more
A BECKENHAM man has been charged with violent disorder following the student protests in London in December. Colin Goff, of Upper Elmers End Road, Beckenham, was charged yesterday (April 27) and will appear at Westminster Magistrates Court
DOG owners are being offered free health checks for their pets. The PDSA PetCheck vehicle will be at various locations across Greenwich from 10am to 5pm on weekdays and 10am to 4pm on Sundays. It will stop at Middle Park Avenue in Eltham on May 12 and
MARVEL Studios are keen to get as many of their properties onto the big screen as possible. With X-Men, Iron Man, Spider-Man, and other assorted “men” cluttering up the silver screen already comes their latest addition, hammer-wielding beefcake
Greenwich Council has been branded “inhuman” after starting to demolish a square - even though four families still live there. Demolition crews moved into Gallus Square on Kidbrooke’s Ferrier Estate in the run-up to Easter and have begun to
Prince William and Kate Middleton say they have been "incredibly moved" by the affection shown to them since their engagement. In a message printed at the beginning of their official wedding programme, the couple say they are deeply touched
A GAS leak has left residents in two blocks of flats without hot water and central heating for almost two months – and it could take another month to fix. Leaseholders in the 90 flats at Elgar Lodge and Lemar Lodge in Fair Acres, Bromley, had
A LINESIDE fire at Grove Park is causing delays to Southeastern train services to London Bridge. Delays of up to 20 minutes are occurring between Chislehurst and London Bridge. They are expected to last until approximately 10.30am. The
TWO men have been jailed for a total of 16 years and eight months after hiding a sawn-off shotgun and drugs worth more than £100,000. Malachi Brown, of Watlington Grove, Sydenham, was found guilty of possession of a firearm and conspiracy to
TICKETS for the Olympic cross-country events in Greenwich Park have sold out, organisers say. More than 20m ticket requests by 1.8m people were received for the London 2012 Olympics, with other sold out events including the modern pentathlon
FIREFIGHTERS were kept busy dealing with several incidents in the Dartford area overnight. At around 5am this morning they were called to Barn End Lane, Wilmington, to reports of fences being alight. It took them around 30 minutes to
A TEENAGER is due to be sentenced this morning (April 28) for an arson attack in a block of flats in Orpington. Rachel Sroka started fires in a flat in Lenham House, Lamberhurst Close, on January 20. The 18-year-old was arrested at the
