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  • Hospital travel links 'not good enough'

    THE NHS needs to work more closely with councils and bus companies to make sure people can get to new hospitals. That is the message from travel watchdog London TravelWatch (LTW) at the end of the public consultation about how London's healthcare services

  • Swans killed in 'senseless' attacks

    TWO swans have been bludgeoned to death by a group of youths in Beckenham. The youngsters chased after one of the birds in Kelsey Park and ripped branches off trees to beat it once they had caught it. They then chased another, caught it and beat

  • Meeting about Greenwich policing

    RESIDENTS are invited to discuss policing with Greenwich's top cop Chief Superintendent Christopher Jarratt. A public meeting will be held at Charlton House, Charlton Road, Charlton, on Wednesday (March 12). It is due to start at 6.30pm and a crèche

  • On This Day

    On this day in... 1917 - The February Revolution began in Petrograd (St Petersburg) in Russia. 1950 - The USSR announced they had an atom bomb. 1971 - Muhammad Ali was defeated by Joe Frazier. 2000 - Tony Blair admitted he had given up smoking when

  • Fire starts in child's bedroom

    A HOUSE was filled with thick black smoke this morning (March 8) because of a fire which started in a Gravesend child's bedroom. Firefighters wearing breathing apparatus went into the room and found a pillow and a patch of carpet alight at around 9.30am

  • Driver dies in 'wrong way' collision

    A MOTORIST has died in a head-on collision after driving a car the wrong way down the A20. The 22-year-old man was going towards London but was on the coastbound stretch of the road between Swanley and Crittalls Corner when his red Toyota collided