As the weeks go by and the weather gets colder we all need to keep ourselves warm and for the majority of us that requires wearing more layers. We buy new hoodies and not only do they warm us up on cold evenings we get a lot of unwanted attention
Newstead Wood School for Girls has given fifty students the opportunity to take part in the Duke of Edinburgh scheme. The Duke of Edinburgh’s Award scheme is one of the world’s leading achievement award for young people with participants ranging
This week Saturday the 16th, I met The Saturdays at Bluewater Shopping Centre for their one and only book signing. The girls were at the shopping centre promoting their new book; The Saturdays, Our Story. The girls were scheduled to be at
This week saw the Beckenham Ladies travel to Sutton & Epsom, this is the first time these two teams had met and Beckenham were determined to come away with a victory. From the start Beckenham gave their all and camped out in the home ‘22’ for long
DRIVING instructors fighting to save Gravesham’s only test centre have driven through Gravesend town centre in a protest convoy. Dave Bolton, vice chairman of the 60-member Gravesend Association of Driving Instructors, organised the 80-car
DARTFORD Football Club played host to the Dartford Physical Education Association’s annual football tournament for primary school boy and girl students. Thirteen boys’ teams from The Manor, Gateway, Temple hill, Knockhall, Sutton-at-Hone, Craylands
TWO North Kent schools brought Shakespeare up-to-date by combining his plays with a modern soundtrack. Children from Parkwood Hall School and Hextable School in Swanley created modern versions of Romeo and Juliet and The Winters Tale and performed them
A YOUTH club leader who helped combat disruptive behaviour is searching for more volunteers. Joanne Raff, 40, took over Higham Youth Club in September 2007 and now also runs a youth club in Cobham. She works closely with Kent police, who recently
A FORMER police officer threw himself under a train after becoming depressed over fears he was going blind, an inquest has heard. Christopher Newman, who was jailed for 12 months for conspiracy to defraud in 2001, died aged 51 on October 23 last year
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HOLLYWOOD’S relentless crusade to remake the cream of foreign language cinema for the benefit of the illiterate or just plain lazy American masses, who can’t or simply won’t read subtitles, continues in earnest with Let Me In. Based on Tomas
SHOCKING footage has been released of a man kicking a dog as he drags it up a hill. The footage was taken by a member of the public on October 1 at Knee Hill Park in Abbey Wood at around 4.20pm. Outrage over the footage which is on
A 17-YEAR-OLD beat 24 other teenagers to be elected as Lewisham’s seventh Young Mayor. Kieza Silviera De Souza from New Cross won after receiving 1,441 votes during the election on October 13. He said: “So far in 17 years I’ve seen that
A COUNCILLOR has denied claims Bromley Council was instructed by the government to work with the Harris Federation as an academy sponsor for Kelsey Park Sport College. At a meeting with parents last week, sponsor of the federation Lord Harris
A FIREMAN is “lucky to be alive” after the wall of a derelict pub came crashing down on him while he fought a blaze. Daniel Gilbert was one of 30 firefighters tackling a fire at the Baring Hall Hotel pub in Baring Road, Grove Park, in the early hours
A CAR crashed into a lamppost in West Wickham after the driver suffered a heart attack at the wheel. The Citroen Panel van hit the lamppost in The Avenue at 2.25pm on Friday. The driver, a man in his mid 50s, was taken to King's College Hospital
A PEDESTRIAN was hit by a car outside The Bridge Bar in Beckenham High Street on Friday. The 32-year-old man was taken to Lewisham Hospital with head injuries following a collision with a Lexus Sport shortly before midnight. His condition
A GUNMAN has been given a life jail term for shooting a 4x4 driver outside the Ministry of Sound nightclub in London. Dwayne McPherson was told he would have to serve a minimum of 11 years for attempted murder in August last year. McPherson
A MOTHER is to campaign for speed humps to be put in her road after a car crashed into her garden wall. Melanie Nicholson, 35, was entertaining friends at her home in Ridgeway Crescent Gardens, Orpington when the accident happened at around
A WOMAN who cheated Bexley Council out of more than £15,000 worth of council tax and housing benefit, has been ordered to pay it back. Julie Wall, aged 43, of Craydene Road, Erith, pleaded guilty at Bexley Magistrates Court, to six charges of false
AN internet auction is being held allowing the highest bidder to start Blackheath’s annual fireworks display. Lewisham Council needs to find £35,000 for the Blackheath fireworks after Greenwich Council pulled its funding. Now people can bid on the
Tonbridge Juddians ended Beckenham’s unbeaten start to the season with a display of clinical finishing that kept the large crowd entertained at Balmoral Avenue and maintained their position at the top of the league with a bonus point victory. The visitors
Very few Istead and Ifield Harriers were out at the weekend, despite the fine weather and the abundance of races both nationally, and overseas. With a choice of five marathons at the weekend, only the attractions of Amsterdam enticed any of
DETECTIVES are investigating whether the death of a man who fell from a block of flats and the murder of a woman are linked. Keith Van Cooten, 44, from Lewisham, fell from Torridon House, Randolph Gardens, Kilburn, on October 15. Police
PHIL Parkinson questioned the mindset of his Charlton side after their 4-0 drubbing at the hands of league leaders Brighton on Saturday. Charlton were embarrassed by the south coast side at The Valley but Parkinson feels his players failed
Millwall manager Kenny Jackett was delighted to come away with three points in a hard-fought derby at Selhurst Park on Saturday. A typically tense clash was settled early in the second half when Lions striker Theo Robinson reacted quickest
With Krakow fast becoming the new Prague, the hunt is on for the new Krakow and eyes are turning towards a quiet Polish city called Wroclaw. Alexis Thompson sent a weekend in the city to find out why it has been ear marked as one of Europe's up
Attacking, cajoling and ranting in his usual style, Gordon Ramsay has been back on our screens this autumn demanding our attention in Channel 4 series, Ramsay's Best Restaurant. While on the hunt for Britain's ultimate eatery, he stops
EBBSFLEET United kept their unbeaten away record in tact as they defeated Boreham Wood by a single goal on a cold afternoon at Meadow Park. Fielding an unchanged starting XI from their FA Cup victory against Needham Market last weekend, manager
BROMLEY were knocked off the top of the table when they suffered their first league defeat of the season when they were trounced at Basingstoke. The visitors got off to the worse possible start when they conceded after just seven minutes.
NOT often do games have turning points prior to the start but Darts’ did on Saturday when, during the warm-up, Danny Harris had to be replaced by Lee Noble thus denying the team his vital pace and work ethic. It also meant a tactical re-think
YOUNGSTERS have designed their own logo to help save their school swimming pool. Midfield Primary School in Grovelands Road, St Paul’s Cray needs to raise £10,000 to pay for urgent repairs to its outdoor pool. The cash would be spent
A SCIENCE tutor is hoping to win a national award at a teaching awards ceremony. In the summer Kate Campion-Smith, who teaches at Cator Park School in Lennard Road, Beckenham, won The Specialist Schools and Academies Trust Award for Outstanding
