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BROMLEY: Environmental payback scheme for offenders

Councillor Colin Bloom and Councillor Colin Smith have launched the scheme

10:10am Sunday 21st March 2010

AN ENVIRONMENTAL twist on punishments for offenders has been unveiled by the council.

SWANLEY: Triplets 'best present' for dad on 30th birthday

Su and Mark Loftus with (L to R) Charlotte, James and Harry

9:00am Sunday 21st March 2010

ELECTRICIAN Mark Loftus had a birthday to remember when his wife gave birth to triplets - a year after she suffered a miscarriage.

BEXLEY: CCTV contract with Siemens leads the way in the UK

Operators working in the new borough CCTV control room

9:40am Sunday 21st March 2010

In a few weeks time, Bexley’s new CCTV control room will be up and running. LINDA PIPER has been taking a sneak preview.

BELVEDERE: Gipsy cob is overwhelming choice for public art project

Andy Scott's designs for the piece he calls The Cob

11:00am Sunday 21st March 2010

A TOWERING steel statue of a gypsy cob horse with its mane and tail flowing and its head held high, is to be installed in Belvedere.

BROMLEY: Volunteers needed for vulnerable adult home scheme

BROMLEY: Planning cost claims on the increase

2:10pm Sunday 21st March 2010

HOMEOWNERS are being encouraged to share their home and make a difference to a vulnerable adult’s life.

BIGGIN HILL: Charles Darwin School pupils' penny appeal for heroes

Pupils Victoria Hart, 13, Chloe Muddiman, 14, Rebecca Walpole, 13, and Rachel Williams,  13, with some of the money they have raised

12:40pm Sunday 21st March 2010

EVERY penny counts at a school where children have pledged to raise £3,500 this year for war heroes.

BROMLEY: Freedom Pass deadline approaching

11:00am Sunday 21st March 2010

ELDERLY residents are urged to apply for their new style Freedom Pass within the next 10 days.

BECKENHAM: Electronic tags to track Bethlem patients

River House is the medium secure unit at Bethlem Royal Hospital

12:40pm Saturday 20th March 2010

MENTALLY ill patients are being electronically tagged so they are traceable if they abscond.

DISCUSS: Should politicians be judged on personality and past?

Anna Arrowsmith has been selected as the Liberal Democrat candidate for the borough at the upcoming general election

9:00am Saturday 20th March 2010

With the general election at risk of becoming more about wannabe MPs' personalities than policies, MICHAEL PURTON asks whether a candidate’s personal life should influence voters.

MEOPHAM AND VIGO: Tory wins council seat at by-election

POLITICS: Labour braced for elections blow

11:30am Saturday 20th March 2010

CONSERVATIVE Derek Shelbrooke has been elected councillor for the Meopham South and Vigo ward.


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