LONDONERS are being urged to water their trees with recycled bath water and cold cups of tea during the drought. Environmental charity, Trees for Cities, has issued the advice at a time when parts of the country has received a hose pipe ban
A SCHOOL put in special measures less than two years ago aims to be officially labelled 'outstanding' by 2014. Eltham Foundation School came out of special measures last month in what executive headteacher Chris Tomlinson called "record-breaking
A HOSPICE is celebrating the 200th anniversary of the birth of Charles Dickens by hosting a theatre production. Kirkdale Bookshop and Spontaneous Productions will be presenting A Celebration of the Life and Works of Charles Dickens as part
PUPILS at a Swanley primary school have helped to raise cash for charity through a sponsored readathon. Youngsters aged five to 11 at St Bartholomew’s Catholic Primary School, in Sycamore Drive, took part in the seven week event during Lent
YOUNGSTERS at a Dartford nursery had a cracking time taking part in egg-citing activities at an Easter fair. Around 100 parents and their children attended Springfield Lodge Day Nursery, in Powder Mill Lane, for the event. Face painting
A DARTFORD woman has beaten thousands of hopefuls to be crowned Britain’s first black plus-size model. Philomena Kwao has already completed a photo shoot in Miami for Cosmopolitan Magazine, which appears across eight pages in the May issue.
A FAMILY-RUN chip shop is celebrating 50 years in potatoes and batter. Moses Adamou moved to the UK from Cyprus in 1959 and opened Marlow Fish Bar in Marlow Road, Anerley, on March 30, 1962. Back then a cod and chips cost a mere one
The Olympic year track and field season is now underway and a number of Blackheath & Bromley’s Senior and Junior athletes have been in action around the country and the world. In the United States at the Texas Relays in Austin, Texas, Jonathan Ilori
A HOSPICE charity shop has been re-opened by a Paralympic silver medallist. Runner-up with the Britain men’s table tennis team in New York in 1984, 69-year-old Robert Churchill cut the ribbon at the store in Greenwich and Bexley Community Hospice
