A team of 12 staff from Greenwich & Bexley Community Hospice including the Hospice’s Chief Executive Kate Heaps are set to embark on a tough physical challenge on 17 and 18 June in a weekend of high intensity physical training to raise funds for Greenwich
THE anarchic black comedies of Gustave Kervern and Benoît Delépine are distinctively French in their quirkiness, but joyously universal in their wit and humour. After their surreal gender-bending revenge film Louise-Michel, the pair follow
A DOG-FRIENDLY high street bank has opened a branch in Bromley. Metro Bank was launched in Bromley High Street today. It is open seven days a week, 361 days a year, from 8am to 8pm Monday to Friday, 8am to 6pm on Saturdays and 11am to 5pm on Sundays
Kings Arms get first win of season Week six of the South London & Kent Pool Alliance and in Tier Two West Kings Arms pick up their first win of the season to lift themselves off the bottom of the table. They got themselves off to a good start against
TWITTER users who want something closer to home on their timelines than Paris Hilton’s shoe updates can now follow Bromley’s mayor. Councillor David McBride will be tweeting about the appearances he will be making in his role as the mayor in
Festival season will soon be upon us and there is good news for all dance addicts as Creamfields have just announced more acts and arenas to their ever growing line up. This year includes Strongbow who return with an impressive DJ and Live
PEOPLE from refugee communities across Lewisham borough are coming together for a celebration. The Lewisham Town Hall event in Catford from 10am to 3pm on June 21 will kick off national Refugee Week. Started in 1998, the week is a response
FORMER Crystal Palace caretaker manager Paul Hart has been appointed as academy director at Charlton. Hart guided the Eagles to safety last year after the club were placed into administration and deducted 10 points in the Championship. His most recent
BUDDING Spielbergs and Scorceses can show off their short films on the big screen thanks to a showcase festival. The Sydenham and Forest Hill Youth Forum charity along with the Sydenham Arts Festival are giving young people the chance to showcase
MARVEL have now got more of their properties on the big screen that you can shake an adamantium claw at; so many in fact that like some kind of gigantic comic book Ourobourous, they’re starting to bite their own tail, revisiting franchises which
WOOLWICH’S Royal Arsenal has been added to a list of legendary British engineering feats, thanks to a prestigious award. The weapons factory which helped build the British Empire and win two world wars has been given the Engineering Heritage
A RUGBY player from Bromley spent a day on the training ground with Sale Sharks and England winger Mark Cueto at Bisham Abbey last week. Michael Jones, 16, was one of 10 winners in a competition to earn a place at the finishing school for rugby wingers
A FORMER Brownies treasurer has been spared jail after she was found guilty of fraud relating to almost £5,000 of the group’s funds. Kate Homewood, of Chatham Avenue, Hayes, failed to pay in the cash from subscriptions and donations to the
Back in 2007 ex-serviceman in Catford began a memorial event to remember the 1,415 who died aboard HMS Hood in 1941. The epic clash between the battleship and Germany's Bismark is widely-regarded as a pivotal moment in the Second World War’
MORE than 300 people turned out at Selhurst Park last week to see England's aspiring Olympic boxing hopefuls overcome their counterparts from Ireland. Hosted by Crystal Palace FC in partnership with the Amateur Boxing Association of England, the
POLICE have launched a pub-based surgery for victims of gay hate crime. Officers will be in the Rose and Crown pub, Croom’s Hill, Greenwich, on the last Friday of every month. The first surgery will be held on June 24, allowing people
A STRING of fires in the Penge area overnight (June 2 to 3) are believed to have been started by the same person. Firefighters were called to the first of seven incidents at around 7.15pm when they tackled a fire in a portable toilet outside
A MUM is raising money for a charity which sent her daughter to Disneyland before she died from leukaemia. Clare White, 38, has organised a summer fete at Giggs Hill Church in St Paul’s Cray on June 18 to raise money for Starlight Children’
You never know quite how a landmark birthday is going to affect you, but I surprised even myself on how I was taking my approaching thirtieth completely in my stride. That was until I took a long, hard look in the mirror. I have watched
YOUNG people interested in making their career in areas as varied as as business administration, horticulture, surveying and childcare can drop in on an apprenticeships open day. The event is begin held by Bexley Council in room 101 at the civic offices
FOR a second time this year, Bexley Council has denied it plans to charge for one of the borough’s most popular free summer attractions. The denial follows speculation Bexley was considering making a charge of £1 to use the splash park in Woolwich
BEXLEY netted silver medals as they finished joint second in the London Youth Games angling competition at Tyler’s Common near Romford on Saturday. Brothers Harry and George McGuirk combined with James Matthews as they hooked over 90lbs of freshwater
WORLD of Golf in Sidcup had a special visitor recently when the world’s longest drive champion popped in. Joe Miller tested his skills and spoke to members about improving their golf swing, as well as visiting the driving range to celebrate
I AM not a motorsport fan but even I‘ve heard of Ayrton Senna and wasn’t fooled into thinking this was a documentary for constipation aids). Senna is a personal portrait of a sporting genius which charts his start as a go-karting driver in
Believe it or not, Suri Cruise has been named one of the world's best-dressed women - at just five years old. In her jelly shoes and party dresses, the daughter of Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes has been deemed stylish enough to land 21st position
WITH a characterisation of Liza Minnelli's father, a staged fondle at a mimed urinal and Boy George prepped for a post-show Q&A, The Temperamentals boasts more gay themes than your average night out in Soho. Telling the relatively unknown
A FORMER Brownies treasurer is due to be sentenced today after she was found guilty of fraud relating to almost £5,000 of the group’s funds. Kate Homewood, of Chatham Avenue, Hayes, failed to pay in the cash from subscriptions and donations
