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Bromley mum kills rat with vacuum after son is bitten

Alison Law was forced to kill a rat after it bit her 10-year-old son BR12710

12:08pm Monday 1st December 2008

SHE admits that she is petrified of rats but that didn’t stop an angry mum from confronting a rodent that bit her son - armed with a vacuum cleaner.

JLS feeling pressure ahead of X Factor semi-finals

Oritse Williams (21), Marvin Humes (23), Jonathan Gill (21), and Aston Merrygold (20) performing on ITV's The X Factor on Saturday (November 29).

1:04pm Monday 1st December 2008

BOY band JLS have hit the right note with the public and made it through to the semi-finals of The X Factor.

Blackheath drug dealer given nine-year jail term

12:01pm Monday 1st December 2008

A BLACKHEATH man who confessed to dealing £20,000 of drugs a day has been given a nine-year jail term.

Dartford resident sent another woman's bank details for 16 years

Patricia Pheasant

3:44pm Monday 1st December 2008

FOR 16 years, Patricia Pheasant has pleaded with Barclays bank to stop sending her the bank statements of another woman.

Sister's tribute to murdered Woolwich man

Mr Cooper died after being "viciously assaulted"

3:23pm Monday 1st December 2008

THE sister of a Woolwich man who was found dead after being attacked has written a tribute on behalf of her family.

Dartford hit-and-run driver may have been drinking

Road closed and four injured in bus collision

11:43am Monday 1st December 2008

A VAN driver who smashed into five parked cars and hit a garden wall in Dartford before running away may have been drinking.

Protest expected at Crystal Palace Park meeting

 Protests are expected at the meeting to decide the future of Crystal Palace Park

9:36am Monday 1st December 2008

PROTESTERS are expected at a meeting to decide whether the London Development Agency’s masterplan to redevelop Crystal Palace Park will be accepted by Bromley Council.

Fallen tree causes traffic chaos in Abbey Wood

Police had to stop the traffic. Picture by Lesley Johnson

10:59am Monday 1st December 2008

BUSES and cars had to share the pavement with pedestrians when a tree fell across a road in Abbey Wood.

New A2 junction is 'major milestone'

11:27am Monday 1st December 2008

A £122M road improvement scheme has reached a major milestone with the opening of a junction near Gravesend.

Pensioner recovering from house fire

Trio of Greenwich and Lewisham fires

8:58am Monday 1st December 2008

AN ELDERLY man is recovering after being rescued from a house fire in Sundridge Park.


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