On this day
	9:18am Fri 9 May 08
	WELCOME to News Shopper's On This Day feature. Log on each day and amaze your friends and family with an interesting fact or simply remember times gone by.

	Man dies after car park fall
	11:36am Thu 8 May 08
	A TWENTY-YEAR-OLD man has died after falling from a multi-storey car park in Gravesend.
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	Question mark over why driver fled crash
	4:13pm Thu 8 May 08
	POLICE are looking for a man who was involved in a car crash outside a college this morning (May 8).
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	Taxi driver 'killed with own cab'
	9:07am Thu 8 May 08
	A GRAVESEND man has denied murdering a taxi driver by running him over in his own cab.

	Residents fear reopening of care home
	12:29pm Thu 8 May 08
	RESIDENTS in Orpington whose lives were made miserable by a children's care home believe it will reopen at the end of this month.
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	Angel of the South shortlist unveiled
	10:07am Thu 8 May 08
	DESIGNS for a £2m hilltop landmark at the mini-town being built near Swanscombe have been unveiled. Vote for your favourite design
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	Mother of two missing for a week
	6:15pm Thu 8 May 08
	A MOTHER missing from her home in Sidcup for a week is vulnerable and suffers from depression, say police.

	Pup in pain gets the chop
	2:09pm Thu 8 May 08
	A BOXER pup dumped in a cardboard box in Bromley had to be castrated after suffering a genital infection.
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	Rubbish fire at station leads to train delays
	12:35pm Thu 8 May 08
	TRAIN services are being disrupted because of an earlier fire at Woolwich Dockyard station.
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Busy hospital taking on nine new recruits

2:29pm Thursday 8th May 2008

DESPITE uncertainty about its future, Queen Mary's Hospital in Sidcup is still busy recruiting staff.

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