Olympic fever has hit Bexley as youngsters are gearing up for London 2012. Reporter ALAN WOODS looks at two unique Olympic opportunities. EIGHT lucky girls from Bexleyheath will cheer athletes from the Kingdom of Bhutan in a once in
The University of Greenwich has been named the greenest university in the UK by People and Planet today. In an annual league table the university came top of the country for having “one of the most comprehensive and ambitious environmental
A 19-YEAR-OLD gang member has been found guilty following a retrial for "brutally and callously" murdering a promising teenage athlete. David Nyamupfukudza, of Nunstead Road, New Cross, is the second man to be convicted of killing Sylvester
A 30-YEAR-OLD has been found guilty of stabbing two men after an argument over weights at a gym. James Campbell, of Bayes Close, Sydenham, knifed Jason Thompson and Joe Chapple at The Bridge leisure centre in Kangley Bridge Road, Sydenham, in January
A HOUSING estate is set to get a makeover after being given £40,000 to improve the area. A derelict car park in the Pike Close estate in Bromley will be transformed into a new garden and play area. Work has already started on the site
STUDENTS at Bromley College have completed the Prince’s Trust programme. The course is a 12-week project which helps unemployed young people get into work or training. During the course the youngsters were required to take part in a
FAMOUS faces will be joining the Rob Knox Film Festival awards ceremony. Nick Love, the director of The Sweeney which will be on the big screen later this year, Jacqueline Jossa from Eastenders and Graham Cole from The Bill will be handing
Aborigines and didgeridoos are coming together with Welsh singers and guitars in the most bonkers music collaboration Greenwich has ever seen. BT River of Music will see international artists from across the world join forces with UK acts and
Dartford Council has agreed to match the funding given to the town as part of its successful bid to become a Portas Pilot Town. Dartford was awarded £79,000 by the Department for Communities and Local Government (DCLG), which will be matched
A SECURE unit for dangerous teens at Bethlem Royal Hospital will not reopen following the escape of four young men. The Bill Yule Unit has been closed since February when four dangerous teenagers escaped, sparking a week-long man hunt.
A SPONSORED walk will raise money for a mum-of-two who died shortly after giving birth last year. Around 400 people are expected to take part in the walk from Blackheath to Bermondsey on June 30 in memory of 25-year-old Holly Eldridge, who
Two doors had to be removed to free a 40-stone man from his home in New Eltham. 10 firefighters and medics were called to a flat in Footscray Road on Saturday after the man became unwell. A spokesman for the London Fire Brigade said
FAMILIES were forced to flee their homes after part of a flat collapsed in Bexleyheath. Part of the exterior wall on the second floor and a section of the roof collapsed at the second floor flat above a tyre shop in Broadway on Sunday night
PEOPLE will again have the chance to show off their best gardens, window boxes and hanging baskets this year. The annual Greenwich in Bloom competition features four categories which will be assessed by independent judges. They include
FORMER Newstead Wood and St Olave's pupil Laura Johnson has been jailed for her role in last summer's riots. Johnson, daughter of millionaire parents Robert, 56, and Lindsay, 55 was found guilty of burglary and handling stolen goods on August
FIREFIGHTERS have been called out to Abbey Wood after a person locked themselves in a bathroom. London Fire Brigade was called at 10.35am this morning (May 29) to a person locked in a bathroom at a property in Bostall Lane, Abbey Wood.
A SIX-year-old boy was taken to hospital by air after falling from the window of a tower block in Erith. Paramedics were called to Cranbrook House, in Boundary Road, at around 5:30pm on Sunday (May 27) to reports of the boy having fallen from
BEXLEY residents are being urged to share their memories as part of The Jubilee Time Capsule project. Erith and Thamesmead MP Teresa Pearce is supporting the world's largest history project, which collects memories from the last 60 years across
THOUSANDS of people enjoyed the annual Guru Nanak Sport Festival in Gravesend. It took place on Sunday (May 27) at the Gurdwara site in Trinity Road and was attended by around 3,000 people. The main point of interest was the Kabbadi
COMMUNITY groups are being encouraged to apply for funding to breathe life into their high streets. Mayor of London Boris Johnson is backing retail guru Mary Portas to help boost the UK economy. Mr Johnson is providing an additional
A HEXTABLE school closed down by Kent County Council "was like a prison" and treated pupils like animals, according to one parent. KCC took the decision to close Furness School, in Rowhill Road, on May 17, following a two day Ofsted inspection
HUNDREDS of children soaked up the sun while raising money for their school in Horton Kirby on Saturday (May 26). Following two consecutive washed-out summer fetes at Horton Kirby Primary School, organisers struck gold this year by choosing
A WOMAN being treated for rabies after being bitten by a dog in south Asia has died. The woman, believed to be a grandmother in her 50s from Bexley, was reportedly turned away twice by doctors at Darent Valley Hospital before she was finally
A DISABLED pensioner who received a parking fine has hit out at a rail operator over a 'lack' of notices about charges for blue badge holders. Doreen Brooker, of Wood Yates Road in Lee, regularly uses the Blackheath station parking area free
THE mini-heatwave which has swept Britain looks set to end after forecasters predicted cooler temperatures and unsettled weather for the week ahead. Sun worshippers have flocked to beaches and parks over the last few days as the country basked
YOUNG teenagers are waiting to hear whether their dancing has put them in the world record books. The 39 Charles Darwin School pupils joined students from more than 1,000 other schools around the world to take part in an attempt to break the
