HADLOW College has launched a campaign to help stressed commuters get away from the hustle and bustle of the city and study to get a job in the great outdoors. According to the college, the average Briton will spend 110,000 hours of their life in
Most parents are happy with the school their children attend, according to a report by Ofsted. The research, which asked parents from nearly 7,000 schools all over the country their opinion on their child's school, found primary schools and special
Primary school Children in Year 6 will be able to sit national curriculum tests in their mother tongue for the first time this year. Translators will be made available to help those students for whom English is a second language (ESL). Instructions
RESEARCH by the Government has found teaching fair play and good manners is more effective than firm discipline in improving pupils' behaviour. The study, published last week, looked at 250 primary schools involved in a pilot aimed at curbing unruly
PUPILS and teachers all over the country will have their noses buried in books this week, as World Book Day arrives in their schools. The charity event, which is being held tomorrow, is in its ninth year. It aims to promote books and reading for
A GROUP of London colleges and universities in the south east are joining forces next week to run events preparing students for job opportunities which are arising as a result of London's successful Olympic bid. Explore 2012! will run between February
Name: Kayleigh Walls. Date of birth: 15/11/1988. Location: Woolwich. Status: Single. Occupation: Unemployed. Education: Abbey Wood Secondary School 2000-2005. Favourite movies: 50 First Dates, When Harry Met Sally, Ladder 49. Favourite music: Green
Director of award-winning Charles Conran financial services SIMON HUGHES looks at self-certification mortgages and asks who can benefit from them? The term selfcertification (self-cert) refers to when a mortgage applicant states his or her income and
THE Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has found around 10 million work days are lost from absence due to muscular and skeletal pain as result of poor posture in the workplace. It estimates an average absence of around 20 days per case per year. In
THE National Union of Students (NUS) has demanded Government ministers review top-up fees, as new figures have shown a large fall in university applications this year. The union says the 3.4 per cent drop in numbers applying to university showed
Traditional housing with a modern edge will soon be coming to south east London. KERRY ANN EUSTICE talks to the architect about the benefits. One of the biggest names in innovative housing design has been given the go-ahead to develop in New Cross
Parents and students at St Olave's Grammar School, Goddington Lane, Orpington, dug deep earlier this term to raise more than £8,000 for charity. The school held its annual festival week a group of events including a cabaret, games for children in
Perfecting your posture can do woners for your health. KERRY ANN EUSTICE gets some advice from an expert in a technique which aims to do just that. Qualifications: I trained at The Society of Teachers of The Alexander Technique (STAT). I'm now a STAT-accredited
The enviable success of singer Clare Teal over the past couple of years or so can't be denied. She'd workead hard in the areas she's wanted to work in, which includes much of her own song-writing, as well as familiar material. This apprenticeship included
An anti-bullying poem by Luke Karwowski, age 11 Here I am, sitting at my desk, Chewing my pencil till it breaks to bits, Watching the clock, ticking away to break, But only to be filled, with fright and fear, Then goes the bell my heart starts to
What a wonderfully understanding person Lesley Hastings sounds. There are a couple of facts that perhaps should be borne in mind when you criticise the nurses for having the audacity to park in the road. The sum of £15 may not mean much to you but to
With reference to Lesley Hastings's letter of February 1, may I suggest she gets her facts right before expounding about parking in her road. Firstly, she should realise that as well as the nursing staff at the Princess Royal University Hospital, there
In response to your front page story on January 25, I should like to offer my congratulations to Mr Chillman for tackling the youths who have been brought up (if that is not too flattering a phrase) to believe that they can go through life getting away
My son - aged 31, six foot three inches tall and a gentle family man with a wife and three-year-old son - was walking home on his own recently from a friend's house in Gypsy Hill in the London borough of Lambeth, when he was confronted by three people
The solution to Gravesend parking problem is more and better public transport. We need longer and more frequent trains and regular, on-time buses. This would have many other benefits, such as no all-day parking, increased employment, safer roads and
What is it with some people in society - particularly selfish neighbours and their parking. A new scheme to issue parking tickets to cars parked across driveways with a drop kerb was introduced. You only register if you want cars to be penalised, and
What is happening to our once happy town? Residents of long standing, who remember how it was, remember Penge had its own council (most of whom were residents) and we had our own refuse collection too. What most residents would like to know is, why is
I would like to put things straight. I do support an extra Crossrail station at Woolwich, if possible. I have campaigned for this publicly in the past. What I do not support is the campaign to have the station built at Woolwich instead of Abbey Wood!
HAVE you ever spotted the sign on Hook Green at the north end Meopham? It is rich in information about the village's heritage. It was designed by Eric Bugg, an artist from Meopham. There is a bishop's mitre displayed on it in honour of one of Meopham's
The Thames twists and turns through our nation's history as well as our capital. KERRY ANN EUSTICE talks to an author who has tried to bridge the gap between past and present river stories. THE Thames is much more than a property hotspot for riverside
MISTLETOE has been re-introduced to the area where Charles Darwin developed his theory of evolution. Downe residents helped mistletoe expert Jonathan Briggs to plant the seeds on host trees within the Down House site. The growth of the semi-parasitic
IT IS payback time for the borough's criminals. Offenders sentenced to community orders will be made to remove graffiti, pick up litter and prune bushes and trees as part of a new Community Payback scheme. The scheme is a partnership between the Met
MAIL MOVE: Parkside Print Finishers Ltd has applied for permission for various works in Walpole Road, Bromley. The development includes a single-storey extension with a pitched roof over a workshop and a first floor and rear extension for offices. The
A BROMLEY councillor says the Mayor of London's attempt to name and shame the borough for failing to join a clean up programme is "unbelievable". Speaking ahead of the launch of London-wide Clean Up, Ken Livingstone criticised the borough for being
SCHOOL pupils have been celebrating passing their food hygiene certificate at a special ceremony. Nine Year 10 students from Bromley schools each achieved a 100 per cent pass on a course run by Orpington College. They had worked at the college once
NEWS Shopper is calling on YOU, our loyal readers, to nominate a nurse. As part of our Bromley's Best competition, we are looking for nurses you know who really deserve a pat on the back. It could be the ward nurse whose caring attitude has made your
PUPILS are going for the bullseye as part of a school's scheme to provide challenging sports. Pupils aged between 14 and 19 are taking part in a course of archery at Rectory Paddock School in Main Road, St Paul's Cray. The special school alternates
MORE nocturnal creatures could soon be winging their way into the borough thanks to a bat morning. Friends of White Hall Rec (FWHR) held the event to try and encourage more bats into Bromley. Visitors to Bromley Common Bowls Club, Pope Road, Bromley
Greenwich and Bexley Cottage Hospice is used by thousands of people. Reporter SAMANTHA PAYNE speaks to joint chief executive Jim Bennett about how it meets the needs of patients. TWELVE years after the hospice opened it still plays an important part
RELIGIOUS and civic leaders are slamming arsonists who targeted an Islamic centre. In the space of three days, Greenwich Islamic Centre, Plumstead Road, Woolwich, was targeted twice. The first incident was on March 2 at 1am after when a window was broken
A PAIR of disgruntled window cleaners are warning customers to watch out for bogus callers sponging their cash. Father and son Colin Hancock, 60, and Simon, 28, say thieves posing as window cleaners have collected more than £1,000 of their customers'
POLICE are appealing for information after a man was found dead. Officers were called at 10pm on March 3 to Old Mill Rd, Plumstead where they found the man's body. A post mortem examination held at Greenwich Mortuary on Saturday morning gave the cause
THREATS and intimidation have followed the arrest of 19 youths after a man died at Erith Leisure Centre. The death of pensioner Ernest Norton, aged 67, from Erith, is now being treated as murder, after it was revealed he was hit on the head by a large
HELP OUT: The National Trust and Friends of Red House, William Morris's Bexleyheath home, are looking for volunteers to help out in the garden. Call Jo on 01322 522926. WARNING: Great Ormond Street Hospital in London is warning people about bogus clothing
SUPPORT for the campaign to build an ice rink in Bexley has snowballed, with a meeting with council officials due to take place tomorrow. The campaign group, led by Welling couple Gill and John Davis, is taking a deputation to the council meeting on
RESIDENTS under seige from gangs of youths rampaging their street, have been warned against taking the law into their own hands. A resident in Merlin Road, Welling, was hit on the head with a brick, as youths ran up and down the street smashing flowerpots
SHOPPERS flocked to a Fair Trade festival in Bexleyheath Broadway at the weekend to find out more about the issue and to sample some of the Fair Trade products on offer. Fair Trade offers producers of food and other products in the Third World stable
