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  • MOVIE REVIEW: The Switch ***

    THE Switch may have Jennifer Aniston as top billing on all the marketing, but it’s not really her film. It actually belongs to her male co-star Jason Bateman who steals the show as her neurotic best friend. Kassie (Aniston) is rapidly approaching

  • BEXLEY: Online applications for secondary schools encouraged

    PARENTS applying for their children’s secondary school places are being encouraged to go online. By applying over the internet, Bexley Council says applications will be checked for errors and will not be lost in the post. Parents and carers can

  • BEXLEY: 350 people injured in five years of kitchen fires

    FIREFIGHTERS are calling on households to take extra care in the kitchen. The safety warning comes following new figures which show there have been more than 350 kitchen fires in the borough in the last five years. As a result more than 60 people

  • NORTHFLEET: Community gardens win free makeover

    TWO community gardens in Northfleet have won a makeover from a team of green-fingered experts. Garden Lodge day care centre in Deneholm Road and Northfleet Youth Centre in Hall Road will both have their gardens transformed by professionals from Millbrook

  • My battle against the Dartford Crossing tolls and booths

    This week has been another bad week for motorists trying to use the Dartford Crossing. Almost every day this week there have been lengthy tailbacks causing misery for both those people trying to get across the Thames and for local residents dealing

  • DARTFORD: One-legged flasher avoids prison

    A ONE-LEGGED flasher who persistently exposed himself to girls from his window has been sentenced. Graham Shephard, of Princes Road in Dartford, appeared at Maidstone Crown Court on August 25 after being found guilty of six counts of indecent exposure

  • BELVEDERE: Fire crews tackle three-hour house blaze

    AROUND 30 firefighters were called out to a house blaze overnight. The Fire Brigade was called out at 12.37am to the fire at a home in Methuen Road, Belvedere. Crews from Erith, Plumstead, Bexley, Sidcup and Woolwich all attended and found the whole

  • BROMLEY: Boost your business event at Orpington College

    ADVICE and help is at hand for businesses at a free networking event later this month. Bromley Council’s Boost Your Business campaign is coming to FUTURES Training, Orpington College, at the Walnuts. A mixture of seminars, exhibitions

  • SHORTLANDS: 'Outstanding' charity chief exec wins award

    A CHARITY leader has paid tribute to her colleagues in the third sector after receiving an accolade for her outstanding work in helping young people. Chief executive of online charity YouthNet Fiona Dawe has won the Charity Times 2010 Outstanding