by JAKE BACON TWO brothers are using their celebrated father's paintings to brighten up their Greenwich restaurant. Andreas and Alyvar Villamagua, co-owners of The Hill on Royal Hill, have decorated their popular eaterie with art by their dad
A RESTAURANT at the O2 has launched an Easter appeal for food donations. Jimmy’s World Grill and Bar are collecting all non-perishable cupboard essentials in return for a 20 per cent discount off the customers’ meal. Whatever is collected will
A THIEVING ex-copper has been jailed for the second time in five months after more light-fingered acts came to light. Former Plumstead police officer Ian Scouler was exposed as a "bad apple" of the Met and sentenced to 12 months in prison last
MAY the phwoars be with you, gorgeous girls of the News Shopper area! We are launching a talent search to find the hottest of the hotties, a head-turning wonder woman deserving of being crowned our beauty queen this year. A long weekend for
YOUNGSTERS at Crockenhill Pre-School in Swanley celebrated Easter with a special parade. Pupils made hats and gathered in the village hall in Stones Cross Road yesterday. (Mar 27)
CHILDREN at Hextable Primary School enjoyed an Easter celebration on Tuesday. (Mar 26) Pupils made hats, organised a raffle and helped raise £250 for Darent Valley Hospital. All prizes were donated by staff at the Rowhill Road school and the
THE woman accused of attacking a shopper in a trolley rage incident in The Glades shopping centre in Bromley has been arrested on suspicion of manslaughter. Police first arrested the 30-year-old on suspicion of GBH on Boxing Day last year four
BROMLEY Police are appealing for assistance in finding a missing 15-year-old boy. Morris Muriritirwa is described as being approximately 5 ft 8 in tall, slim build and has his left ear pierced. He has been missing from his home address in Orpington
ROCK royalty is coming to Blackheath next month. Deborah Bonham, sister of late Led Zeppelin drummer John, will be bringing her eclectic mix of rock, blues, folk and country to the Blackheath Concert Halls on April 5. She and her band are using
DARTFORD MP Gareth Johnson says he is “confident” the killer of Claire Tiltman will eventually be brought to justice. Sixteen-year-old Claire was stabbed to death in a Greenhithe alleyway, off London Road, on January 18, 1993. In the past month
DETECTIVES were barking mad after a drugs warrant they executed in Thamesmead led them to discover 31 dogs. Officers from Bexley Police were executing drug warrants at the time of the discovery on Wednesday as part of the capital-wide Operation
In this short video tutorial DIY guru Julia Kendell explains how to give your kitchen a shabby chic or vintage style. The video was produced as part of a series of tips after Topps Tiles arranged for bloggers to send questions in to 60 Minute Makeover
THE man arrested following a blaze at a shop in Gravesend yesterday has been bailed. Firefighters were called to the basement of Kent Hair Studio in Harmer Street at 3.55am. Police arrested a 20-year-old man from the Gravesend area on suspicion
SOLVING the problem of gangs is "easy peasy" - call them in for a sitdown meeting and tell them to shape up or ship out. That's the view of childhood friend of Stephen Lawrence, Councillor Duwayne Brooks, whose sights are set on becoming Mayor
IT HAS been revealed that a vehicle abandoned in the middle of a Petts Wood road was simply left there, half on the road, half on the pavement. Police investigations have confirmed that the vehicle was not stolen and had not been involved in an
A SHARP rise in fly-tipping across Gravesham is being blamed on a decision to ban vans and pick-up trucks from dumping waste at the borough’s only recycling centre. The number of incidents reported to Gravesham Council has risen by more than 40
GREENWICH Paralympian Andy Barrow has joined Charlton Athletic as an ambassador. Charlton Athletic Community Trust (CACT) will host a disability awareness day during the weekend's home match against Bolton (Mar 30). Before the game, players
BEER from Brockley’s first and finest brewery has hit the boozers. The Brockley Brewery, in Harcourt Road, has opened for business as the first of its kind in the area. A launch party at The Talbot, Tyrwhitt Road, saw punters taste the beer
Georgina Snow, 20, from Swanley Road, Welling. Why this design? This is in memory of my uncle Paul who died last year. When he was young he had a similar tattoo on his back. As a family, we are very close so both my Mum and I are having
BROMLEY has one of the highest rates of HIV in the country, with the prevalence of the virus more than doubling in the last 10 years. This is according to the National AIDS Trust (NAT), which says one in 340 people living in the borough are HIV
Given how many other endless runner games are available, reinventing popular console action-adventure game Mini Ninjas as one for its iOS release was not a very inspired idea. But while Square Enix’s release doesn’t score anything for originality
For decades now Ian Carey has been a well-known figure around Bromley and Welling, not only for his regular community and fundraising activities but also in his professional capacity as a hearing aid audiologist. Working from the G Roberts Hearing
THE ill-gotten gains of a fraudster who made millions selling fake designer shoes and handbags have been used to improve a popular Dartford pathway. Kent County Council’s (KCC) trading standards team prosecuted Guacharan Singh in 2009 after he
The Rib Shack, the latest restaurant to open in Petts Wood, manages to be all things to all men. Whether it’s a quiet lunch for two, a fun night out with the girls or a Sunday lunch with the family, it comes up trumps. So what’s the secret?
Construction on the 95-storey tower, the tallest in Western Europe, began in March 2009, and nearly four years later, the eagerly anticipated viewing gallery opened to the public in February this year. Home to offices, restaurants, residences and
GLASTONBURY will have a distinctly Dartford feel this year when the Rolling Stones rock up. The music legends have agreed to headline the performing arts festival in Somerset for the first time, it was announced yesterday. Frontman Mick Jagger
If you’re looking to improve your health and fitness this spring, these incredible records may provide some inspiration ... Oldest person to climb the seven summits (including Carstensz) Climbing the seven summits (the highest mountains of
A BROMLEY man has been left baffled after his road was dug up days after it was resurfaced. Steve Thorpe lives in Plaistow Lane, which underwent a week-long resurfacing job between Lytchet Road and Lansdowne Road, completed on March 21. The
A GREENWICH music school is celebrating the 70th birthday of one of its professors with a special concert tonight. The music faculty of Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance will put on a piece by composition professor Stephen Montague
Is lacemaking a dying art? Not in Eltham - where you can see a dedicated band of ladies stalwartlty trying to keep this beautiful art form alive. Lace was being made as long ago as the time of the Pharoes - so it is said - but no one really knows
HEADTEACHERS in Dartford and Gravesham who have improved their schools are being recognised by Kent County Council (KCC) at a series of celebration events. There are six schools in each borough that have improved their school’s Ofsted rating since
MORE than 50 fighfighters tackled a blaze at a 76-year-old factory in Sidcup – just hours before the longest fire in Bromley’s history finally came to an end. Eight fire engines were called to the fire on the second floor of the derelict Richard
Sweeney Todd, Mrs Lovett, Jack the Ripper, Guy Fawkes, Henry VIII and a vast supporting cast of historical characters will be taking centre stage in a major new £20m production as the new, bigger, better, bolder London Dungeon opens in County Hall.
It may not be the usual warm Easter we are used to, but you can still wrap up and enjoy your bank holiday weekend with these top five Easter egg hunts. Bexleyheath: The Red House, Red House Lane, Bexleyheath Open for Easter fun all weekend,
DEPTFORD voters can vote for a new councillor today after the previous one stood down last month. Evelyn ward's Councillor Joseph Folorunso from the Labour Party resigned to carry on running an orphanage in Togo. He had not been to a council
BIRD numbers in the UK including some of the most threatened and "incredibly precious" species are continuing to fall after years of declining at "alarming rates", according to a birdwatching survey. Starlings, a UK 'red-listed' species - meaning
TWENTY-SIX people were arrested across Bromley yesterday (March 27) and drugs with a street value of £560,000 were recovered in a major crackdown against drug dealers and cannabis factories. Sixteen Operation Hawk raids took place throughout the
RETAILER John Lewis is selling fake daffodils for the first time as the relentless cold weather delays the arrival of the spring blooms. The long winter means spring flowers will bloom late this year and has led to daffodil shortages for events
AFTER £4m was spent on redeveloping Bromley South station you would be forgiven for expecting pretty plush toilets. But instead after a year’s worth of building work passengers have been left with no toilets at all. The facilities are there
There is always purpose, even if we ourselves are not aware of it; there is a purpose. Lewisham is changing as we know it. Why? What is its purpose? Is it for better or for worse? As you may know Renaissance has already built a
The BBC schools report offers a day in the life of a journalist. Students taking part in the BBC School Report Challenge are required to write and edit their own articles and interview people. Students are not assisted by teachers, instead it is an
Jo Johnson, Member of Parliament for Orpington, invited this reporter, Melissa Hinkley, recently elected Head Girl of Newstead Wood School to attend him on the day designed to promote the position of women in politics. On International Women’s
With supporters and critics abound, it appears the latest gastronomic fixture of Bromley’s Widmore Road, BR1 3BD, shall never cease to thrill, sustain and repulse. For evidence of this, look no further than the recent survey conducted by tripadvisor.co.uk
Earlier today (27th March 2013) a key police offensive was underway for against street level drug dealing and cannabis farms in Bromley. The previous operation occurred in September last year (2013), and the consequences were nine arrests, confiscation
Who would have thought the Easter weekend would be here and we'd still be facing temperatures of below five degrees? It's been announced everywhere that we are supposed to be in official spring time, although this is the coldest March we've seen in
On Sunday March 23rd, Newstead Wood’s Mock Trial Team traveled to The Royal Courts of Justice, location of this year’s Bar National Mock Trial and home to the Court of Appeal, the second highest court in the English jurisdiction. Judged by senior members
It is now prevalent for us to see chicken and chip shops such as Morleys to be filled with secondary school students between the times 15:00 and 16:30. Many of these pupils have nothing but 1 or 2 pounds in their pockets and yet they are able to walk
