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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.

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.

KIDBROOKE: Ferrier Estate phase two gets go-ahead

Ferrier Estate in Kidbrooke

10:20am Saturday 20th March 2010

PERMISSION has been granted for the next stage in a notorious estate’s regeneration.

BEXLEY: Stop and search bias in Bexley is the lowest in London

10:40am Saturday 20th March 2010

BEXLEY police have taken the most balanced approach to stop and search in the whole of London, according to an investigation by the Equality and Human Rights Commission.

SIDCUP: GBM union threatens action over workplace bullying claims at Pizza Express

8:20am Saturday 20th March 2010

A UNION is threatening to put pickets outside a town centre restaurant following claims some of the staff were victimised and bullied.

LEWISHAM: Pet shop owner wins award

Mayor of Lewisham Sir Steve Bullock with competition winner Ricky Keane

3:30pm Saturday 20th March 2010

A PET shop owner has been voted the best independent business by his customers.

LEE: Second man arrested over Abdel Salam murder

Mr Abdel Salam was found dead in his bottom-floor flat in Boone Street, Lee, at around 7.10am on March 13

3:08pm Friday 19th March 2010

A SECOND man has been arrested in connection with the murder of leading human rights campaigner Abdel Salam Hassan Abdel Salam.

GREENHITHE: Father's appeal over Claire Tiltman murder case sign

Claire's father Cliff Tiltman

12:00pm Friday 19th March 2010

“STOP being a coward and come forward” - a father’s message to the mystery person who claims to know who killed his daughter.


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