AFTER feeling fed up with spending hundreds of pounds on expensive music festivals, a group of Eynsford homeowners started their own. The second Eynsford Music Festival is due to be held next month, following the resounding success of last year
BROMLEY-BORN Nicholas Robinson-Baker missed out on a medal at today’s Olympics. The diver, who has three nicknames amongst his fellow athletes including ‘Peanut’, ‘Fish’ and ‘Shorty’, came fifth. Robinson-Baker participated with his diving
LONDON Mayor Boris Johnson was left hanging after he got stuck in mid-air on a zipwire at an Olympic event. Mr Johnson tried out the 148ft (45m) high, 1,050ft (320m) long line as he visited Victoria Park in the capital. Wearing a hard hat and
A CAMPAIGN for people to be on guard against dodgy doorstep traders has gained the support of Bexley Council. The Office of Fair Trading is warning people to be on the look-out for rogue traders as Consumer Direct figures show that last year doorstep
A MASKED man was screaming about losing his wife as he smashed in a church in St Paul’s Cray, according to an eyewitness. Stephen Owens watched as the man smashed a car and the windows of St Barnabus church vicarage in Rushet Road last night (July
CRIME in Kent has fallen for a sixth year in a row despite budget cuts and changes to national and local policing. In the last financial year Kent Police achieved six of their 10 performance targets. There are now 3,845 fewer victims of crime
BEXLEY Councillors have presented a petition calling on Waitrose to open in Sidcup to the Deputy Mayor of London. The council’s We Want Waitrose petition boasted an impressive 5,598 signatures as it was handed to Kit Malthouse, the Deputy Mayor of
A UNANAMOUS vote has been passed by Bexley Councillors to help reduce energy bills for elderly homeowners . Councillors voted at a council meeting to urge energy companies to work closer with pensioners and provide them with the most cost-effective
A FIRE in a 13-storey-high block of flats in Woolwich this morning is being investigated. Four fire stations and around 20 firefighters were called to the blaze in Frances Street at 6.49 am. The fire was under control by 7.39am with half
By Jack Zorab WORLD Cup winner Danny Grewcock has laid down the challenge to Lewisham’s Tom Chapman to follow in the footsteps of some of the game’s greats and play for the Bath first team. Chapman, 18, has traded the Saracens’ academy for life in
A FATAL stabbing of a teenager in Downham this morning has left residents fearful for their children. A 16-year-old boy died this morning after he was stabbed in the chest at a party in Launcelot Road. Police were called to the terraced house
FAMILIES have endured "a nightmare" after their water supply was cut off for four days. Households living in Riverside Housing homes in Pike Close, Sundridge Park, had to wait two days for water to be delivered and even then it was only 38 bottles
Kevin Bryan reviews the latest music releases Woody Guthrie, This Land Is Your Land **** The founding father of the protest song movement was born in the Oklahoma town of Okemah in 1912, and this anthology marks the centenary
JUST hours after a man became a British citizen he became a ‘hero’ by tackling an armed masked man who was attacking a pensioner after smashing up a church last night (July 31). People had come out of their houses in Rushet Road, St Paul’s Cray
DARENT Valley Hospital is the first in Kent to use a new state-of-the-art piece of technology to help diagnose lung cancer. Introducing the endobronchial ultrasound (EBUS) means patients will no longer need to be referred to other hospitals with
WELLING welcomed former striker Andy Pugh back to Park View Road on Tuesday night and the prolific striker managed to cap his return with a goal for Conference Premier side Cambridge United. But despite the 3-0 defeat, it was a game Wings manager Jamie
WEIGHTLIFTING wonder Jack Oliver smashed his own personal best and equaled the British record at his first Olympics. The 21-year-old, who was born in Sidcup and raised in Bexleyheath, competed against four other men in the B group for the men's
A TEENAGER has died after being stabbed in the chest in Downham in the early hours of this morning. Police were called to Launcelot Road at around 4am and discovered a 16-year-old boy suffering from a stab wound who died an hour later. The
GREEN-MINDED residents clubbed together to shift one ton of rubbish from their Thamesmead neighbourhood. Sixty volunteers from Waterside Close spruced up their area – filling 30 bin bags of waste plus sofas, beds and mattresses. Waterside Close
A SIX-week old kitten arrived in Dartford following a 2,000 mile journey from Istanbul as a stowaway in a delivery trailer. The brown and black kitten – who has been named Yonda by rescuers at charity Cats Protection – was found by staff at freight
PUBSPY'S VIEW Crikey, you couldn’t mistake the name - there are white swans just about everywhere in this St Mary Cray boozer. Having taken in the full range of attractive porcelain fowl, my attention switched briefly to the array of photos
TEAM GB claimed their fourth medal of the Games on Tuesday as the riders struck Silver in the final phase of the eventing competition at Greenwich Park. The quintet of Zara Philips, Tina Cook, Nicola Wilson, Mary King, and William Fox-Pitt finished
AFTER a successful run at Bromley’s Churchill Theatre, the cast of Spamalot have picked up their coconut shells and trotted to the West End. At the start of the run at the Harold Pinter Theatre near Leicester Square, the audience were treated
Jack Sargent,18, Welling Why this design? It’s a memorial tattoo for my mum, nan and my grandad. The baby represents me, the sovereign is for my nan and the rose for my grandad. How much did it cost? We have
A BARBERSHOP singer has described the moment a masked armed ‘nutter’ burst into a rehearsal as ‘something out of a horror film’. Ginny Warner and the Velvet Harmony group had locked themselves into the hall at St Barnabas Church, Rushet Road, St
YET more plans to build on protected greenbelt land in north Kent have been blasted by homeowners. Despite Gravesham Council leader Councillor John Burden promising in January there will be no development on the borough’s greenbelt sites, he
TWO Bexley police officers who leapt into the River Thames to rescue a woman stranded 40 metres from the shore have been praised by the borough commander. PC’s Jason Campbell, 37 and Stefen Rule, 34, stripped off before diving into the Thames at Thamesmead
ORPINGTON’S Claire Rafferty was an unused substitute for the third game in a row as Great Britain’s women football team beat Brazil at the Olympics last night (July 31). Head coach Hope Powell, from Greenwich, is urging people not to get carried
FIVE singers were injured when a machete wielding man smashed the windows of their church in St Paul’s Cray while they were having a rehearsal. Police were called to St Barnabas Church, Rushet Road, at about 8.20pm last night (July 31) and arrested
