CHURCH members are holding a May fayre to raise funds for building alterations worth £120,000 to expand their outreach projects. The fayre will be held in Gravesend Methodist Church in Milton Road on May 14 from 10am until 4.30pm. MP
RESIDENTS are being urged to fight a £120m regeneration of Gravesend’s heritage quarter by speaking at a public inquiry. Campaign group Urban Gravesham is asking people to share their views on developer Edinburgh House’s proposal at the inquiry
A HOSPITAL has slashed staff parking permits to allow more space for patients. Darent Valley Hospital has decided to reduce the number of staff permits from 2,700 to 2,000 from September following complaints about lack of patient parking.
THE 50th anniversary of the Jaguar E-Type is marked with a strong entry for the legendary sportscar in the masters festival this Bank Holiday weekend at Brands Hatch. The event has firmly established itself as a major fixture on the historic racing
A TOTAL of 20 Dartford Harriers ran the Whitstable 10k on a sunny but very blustery day. Daniel Pyne came 5th overall in a time of 35.47 and our Ladies claimed the third team prize. The ladies team comprised of Cara Oliver (41.59), Julie Hibbard
STUDENTS from Milestone School in New Ash Green represented the Dartford School Sports Partnership in the panathlon challenge at the Malling School. Youngsters took part in new age curling, boccia, table cricket, poly bat and field and track
Las Vegas comedy legend Rita Rudner tells Matthew Jenkin why it's taken her 15 years to return to Britain and explains why performing for President Obama was a slam dunk. COMEDY legend Rita Rudner is bringing her one woman show to London's
KENT Exiles returned from league leaders Milton Keynes Panthers with a creditable 36-36 draw. Zac Ritchie starred for the Orpington based side, throwing for five touchdowns, with Audley Swain (2), Yazid Garba (2) and Wesley Eversley making the catches
A GROUP is claiming Bexley Council could find itself having to take its CCTV parking enforcement cars off the road and pay back huge sums in parking fines. Richmond-upon-Thames Council has already found itself in that position and now the No To Mob
DRIVERS in the borough are waking up to the massive increase which is about to hit their parking charges. Across Greenwich, the cost of people’s annual parking permit is set to rocket by an average of £42 while the cost of car parks and meters
THE Blues have won the premier division of the Bromley & Orpington Sunday League by seven points to secure promotion to the senior division. In September 2005, the Blues U17s left junior football and joined the fifth division of the league, winning
A COMPUTER recycling company is set to take over three libraries - while the future of another remains up in the air. Lewisham Council officers have recommended that Eco Computer Systems takes over the Sydenham, Crofton Park and Grove Park
BARNET Wood Reserves FC, from Bromley, signed off their debut season in style with a 3-1 victory over Waddon Wanderers to lift the Stewart Vaughan Cup. Connor Norris struck twice in the first half to give the Bromley side a useful lead at the break
BY Adam Gillham & Charlie Sewell WORLD Cup legend Sir Geoff Hurst has presented a youth football league with the FA charter standard award, the first league in London to achieve the status. The south east London & Kent (Selkent) youth league has
NEWS Shopper has teamed up with the organisers of new charity music festival Music on the Hill to offer readers the chance to win tickets to the three-day event in Kings Hill near West Malling, Kent. The festival is in aid of Demelza Hospice
LIVERPOOL’S Nathan Eccleston is one of five players to leave Charlton after their loan spells at The Valley came to an end following Saturday’s final match of the season against Hartlepool United. Frank Nouble (West Ham), Federico Bessone (Leeds),
YOUNGSTERS who excel in english and maths have been recognised at an awards ceremony. More than 200 children who completed the after-school Kumon programmes attended the event at Goldsmiths University. Gold, silver and bronze certificates
Beckenham Business Association has just appointed a new Chairman and Patron. Lesley Appaduray, Principle of Appaduray & Company which deals with Accounting and Taxation on behalf of local businesses, has been voted in as Chairman and Bob Stewart, MP
THIRTEEN disabled youngsters will get the chance to go on holiday after a charity ball raised £6,500 for the trip. Sam Goncalves, whose 13-year-old son Shane has cerebral palsy, organised the black tie event at Metrogas Sports Ground, in Avery Hill
The multi-award winning dance festival returns to Daresbury in Cheshire on August Bank Holiday weekend with the biggest electronic line up you’ll see anywhere this year, if beats, basslines and busting dance moves is your tipple then Creamfields
TWO people accused of failing to seek veterinary treatment for a tortoise are set to stand trial. Julie Kimber, aged 40, of Church Road, Hartley and 33-year-old Matthew Kimber of Wested Lane, Swanley appeared at Dartford Magistrates’ Court
The team from Bexley in Bloom have been encouraging pubs and restaurants to enter the competition for many years. Judges have visited other boroughs giving recognition to venues across London and want to persuade the hard working landlords,
THOUSANDS of families enjoyed theatre performances, wall climbing and stone carving at an annual community festival. Face painting, willow weaving, a green treasure hunt and a bandstand with music and dance were just some of the attractions
CRAY Wanderers U15 have enjoyed a season to remember after completing a treble trophy haul. The boys won the Kent League Cup with a 5-2 final win over Dartford thanks to strikes from Sam Norton, Alfie Pavey, Dan Parkinson, Luke Adams and Charley Robertson
Kevin Bryan reviews the latest album releases. 100 Hits Legends: B B King *** THIS mammoth 5-CD set features many of the classic recordings which helped to establish this prolific performer as one of the leading lights of the blues during the 50s
AS IF the fear of being mugged, stabbed or caught in the cross-fire of a gangland shooting wasn’t reason enough to avoid a south London council estate these days, horny, gorilla-like aliens with day-glo teeth will now have to be added to that list
THE British Music Experience will be marking the 30th anniversary of the 1981 Brixton riot with two free panel discussions exploring the impact the event had on music. Panic on the Streets will be held at The O2's acclaimed museum on June 7 and will
A 27-YEAR-OLD man who was arrested after a high speed police chase from Bromley to Woldingham is due to appear in court. Officers began following the Volkswagen Golf after it failed to stop in Westmoreland Road at around 1.10pm last Wednesday
THE E4 Udderbelly Festival at London's South Bank is set to hit the ground running with the world premiere of high-octane, physical spectacular Free Run. For the first time ever, the explosive action of free running, one of the world’s most exciting
STAND-UP star Russell Howard has extended his Right Here, Right Now tour, adding an extra date at The O2 in December. The announcement follows the tour's sell-out runs in arenas across the country and the Mock The Week regular is well on the way to
CRYSTAL Palace columnist DANIEL GRIGG looks back on Saturday's 3-0 defeat against Nottingham Forest. IT looked a case of after the Lord Mayor’s show as Crystal Palace’s season ended with an uninspiring 3-0 defeat at home to Nottingham Forest. Though
EVERYONE'S favourite grumbling funnyman and star of BBC2’s Mock The Week, Andy Parsons, is back on the road with his brand new show, Gruntled. After sell-out runs across the UK in 2009 with the Citizens! tour, Britain's foremost topical comedian
ALL Star Wrestling's current season of Gravesend events is set to end with an explosive tag team clash on June 1, when popular champions James Mason and Dean Allmark enter the Woodville Halls ring to take on the unruly combination of Bud and Bex, the
DARTFORD MP Gareth Johnson helped ring in a new chapter for a parish church after visiting its newly restored bells. He visited St Mary's Church in Church Road, Stone last Monday (May 2) along with Dartford Mayor Councillor Patrick Colemean. The original
Sidcup UK – Sidcup Symphony Orchestra (SSO), one of the longest established orchestras in the South-East, today announced that its next concert will feature acclaimed violinist Geoffrey Lynn as its guest soloist. Geoffrey, who is part of the London Philharmonic
CHARLTON fans may have spotted something different at the Addicks’ final game of the season. Members of the team and their Hartlepool opponents warmed up before the match in dotted vests as part of hospice charity Demelza’s Go Dotty campaign
CHARLTON fan and freelance journalist MATT FRICKER is News Shopper online’s Addicks columnist and this week looks at who he would like to see signed in the close season. WHEN the first set of players to be released from clubs across the country was
DARTFORDIANS’ U9s rugby team are celebrating after success in a national competition. The Bexley-based club took part in the annual event at Burnham-on-Sea RFC in Somerset in what was the first rugby tour for the U9s. Despite their inexperience, the
HUNDREDS of families enjoyed a free open day at the largest police station in Europe. Around 1,700 people attended Lewisham Police Station to look at vintage police vehicles, try on riot gear and have their fingerprints taken as a souvenir. Visitors
IRATE customers have been flooding the internet with complaints about a phone recycling company. Fonecraze, based in Footscray Road, New Eltham, promises to pay up to £300 for new, used or damaged phones within seven days of receiving them.
NORTH Kent’s Cyclopark is charging ahead of its schedule to be completed before the 2012 Olympics, Kent County Council says. Once completed, the sports facility, located south of Gravesend by the A2, will be the largest cycling venue in Europe. And
PEOPLE who have not filled in their Census form could face a £1,000 fine. Greenwich Council is advising people to complete their forms or risk being prosecuted as failing to return the Census is a criminal offence. The amount of funding
WHEN Mary Corrigan started to lose her hair, she didn’t want to leave the house. The mother-of-three’s alopecia was so bad, she suffered 90 per cent hair loss, leaving patches on her head the size of a tennis ball. Doctors tried everything
FIREFIGHTERS freed four people who were trapped in a lift in Dartford last night. They were called to the scene in Market Square at around 8.30pm and managed to open the lift door from the outside. It is believed the trapped people had
A LITTLE more than a third of Bexley’s voters registered an opinion on the way future elections to the Westminster parliament should take place. Voter turnout in the borough on the Alternative Vote system across the borough last week was just
Free film viewings, talks and workshops are on the agenda as the programme for this year’s Rob Knox Film Festival is revealed. LINDA PIPER reports. THE Bexley film festival, launched in 2008 and renamed after the murdered Harry Potter actor
