NEIGHBOURHOOD policing will not suffer during the Olympics, the Metropolitan Police’s top cop assured residents. Commissioner Bernard Hogan-Howe was at Christ the King St Mary’s Sixth Form College in Sidcup on Wednesday for a question and answer
PROPERTY hunters in the borough have the chance to star in a new TV show alongside Sarah Beeny. Channel 4 are looking for people who are house hunting in Bromley and Beckenham to take part in a new show hosted by property expert Sarah Beeny
BIRCHWOOD Park Golf Centre in Dartford has installed a new tees on the club’s par-three orchard course. The new tees have been installed after an investment of £15,000 by the public pay-and-play centre, which will mean golfers can tee up all year round
"DISGUSTED" campaigners are hoping London's mayor can step in and stop part of a £4.1bn super sewer being built near a school. They have been joined by Lewisham Deptford MP Joan Ruddock in slamming Thames Water's plans for Deptford Church
THE body of a man has been found by the side of the River Thames in Northfleet. A member of the public made the discovery on a small beach at a man-made jetty backing onto The Shore near Crete Hall Road, Northfleet yesterday (May 16) just after
A PAIR of pole vaulters from Bexley Athletics Club leapt to glory at the Kent championships on Sunday. Charlie Jinks, 16, and 14-year-old Ailis McGovern won their individual titles, a double success which delighted Bexley AC coach Gordon Lillis
RESIDENTS living in charitable housing held a garden party for a special birthday celebration. Ralph Perring Court in Stone Park Avenue, Beckenham, has celebrated its 20th anniversary with a party in their garden. Most of the 120 residents
TICKETS for the Olympic Torch Relay celebration evening at Danson Park are selling fast. Bexley Council is encouraging homeowners to book their free tickets now, as there are just 1,800 left for the event on July 22. Headlined by hip-hop
Legendary Greek titan Prometheus is set to rise up from the ground and walk among earthlings, towering 26-feet into the night sky to bring us fire and humanity. The awe-inspiring puppet, controlled by six volunteers, will be joined by a gravity
BEXLEY Council will be consulting people with learning disabilities and their carers on the future of the services it provides. The council plans to extend its current contract with not-for-profit organisation, mcch society ltd, to provide
POLICE have uncovered dozens of memorial plaques which were stolen from a Beckenham cemetery. Around 150 intact plaques were among the items recovered in a huge raid on a Croydon scrap metal dealer’s yard. Hundreds more had been cut into pieces
Kent Police Authority will come to an end in November when a new Police and Crime Commissioner is announced. The biggest shake-up to policing in 50 years will see Kent with its first directly elected Police and Crime Commissioner as voted for
A FATHER and son rap duo from Dartford are agonisingly close to winning £10,000 for a Northfleet charity – but they need your votes to secure the victory. Tony and Charlie Saunders, aged 44 and seven, recorded a rap-video under the stage name
WHAT'S that in the sky? A mayoral vanity project, a £60m tourist attraction or a much-needed river crossing? When Boris Johnson resurrected the idea of a cable car across the Thames two years ago it seemed to many people like one of his more
HUNDREDS of people have signed a petition calling on Bromley Council to reverse its decision to ban a charity from running its clothes banks on council land. At the end of this month the charity Scope will no longer be able to put its clothes
A TEENAGE suspect was Tasered and bitten by a police dog this morning after reports of a group armed with guns. Police were initially called to reports of a disturbance in Wells Park Road, Sydenham, at 12.38am this morning. Officers
The Chieftains, "Voice of Ages" **** Ireland's much loved musical ambassadors celebrate their 50th anniversary this year, and no one would have been surprised if they'd chosen to mark this momentous milestone by roping in a few of their
TWO missing teenage girls have been found safe and well. Eleanor Massbery, aged 16, and 15-year-old Sarah McLaren went missing on May 11 from their homes in Maidstone. It was believed that they could be in the Gravesend area.
PUBSPY'S VIEW When the gavel went down at The Auctioneer, the only bidding taking place was a fond farewell from its student punters. The sticky-surfaced, slightly grimy hangout has long gone and in its place has appeared The Lost Hour
A BEDROOM was destroyed after a fire broke out in a Gravesend house yesterday evening (May 16). Firefighters from Thames-side and Swanscombe were called to Russell Road at around 8.20pm and managed to stop flames spreading to any other room
Antonio Cilento, 32, Blackheath Why this design? I chose this design because my grandad lives in Italy, is the head of my family and my hero. I decided to get the tattoo done this year as my grandad is 95 on the July 5 and lately
