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Road is a race track
We moved to Welling 24 years ago, it was a quiet road, but as the years went on it's got more and more noisy with traffic. Because I do Neighbourhood Watch, I've got to know a lot of our neighbours who have lived here a long time. It's a nice road, we
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Beware the rail jobsworths
I am writing this letter in absolute frustration! How many people have travelled to Dartford station, within the News Shopper area, thinking that it is within Zone 4? My son, Joseph, did exactly that. I believe that many travellers get caught out since
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Cycling facts
I refer to your correspondent G Woodget (News Shopper August 24, 2005) regarding cycling on pavements. I don't condone this practice, but I must correct a few points raised by Mr Woodget. Cycling on pavements is a serious issue but one that concerns
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Party not much of a celebration
Rather than the 'celebration' we were promised, the Liberal Democrat Party Conference was another missed opportunity to make the argument for the few liberal policies they still profess. The only debate which achieved widespread coverage was the rejection
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Plumbing opportunities gap needs plugging
I don't know if you will be able to help me in any way but I feel the need to write to you to express my disgust at the lack of opportunities available to find an apprenticeship and become a plumber. I am a 21-year-old man currently interested in working
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Defend the defenceless
Many of your readers will share their homes with cats, dogs and other animals. We all know that they have their own personalities, and scientists are constantly discovering how similar animals are to us in how they feel pain and emotions ranging from
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Start saving now
Your article (Mum's plastic surgery nightmare - Oct 5) did not say if the plastic surgeon told Ms Young how much it was going to cost her when she has to have the implants explanted. The price for that runs between $8,500 and $12,000 (US). She will
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Help catch these yobs
A GANG of hoodies' mocked a motorist as he writhed on the ground in agony after chasing them for stoning his car. Robert Leaney was driving along University Way, Dartford, with his wife Lisa when a brick smashed into the passenger side of his vehicle's
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Bach is worse than their bite
STORE bosses are taking on loitering teenagers with a classic approach by making them mad with Mozart and bothered by Bach. Fed-up Co-op chiefs have decided to install loudspeakers and play classical music to dissuade large groups of youths from congregating
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Cabbie’s win for drivers
A MINICAB driver has struck a blow for the ordinary motorist by winning a court case over a car hire bill. Steve McKenzie's case also highlighted the vast sums accident assistance firms charge insurance companies for supplying temporary replacement cars
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Yellow peril
CAMPAIGNERS who led a three-year fight to stop a multinational company building a warehouse in their area are facing more yellow peril. Residents thought they had successfully blocked the Big Yellow Self Storage Company's attempts to open a trademark
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Our park needs cafe to survive
PARK users have begged council bosses to rebuild their beloved cafe, because they say their park is "dying" without it. Le Cafe, in Avery Hill Park, New Eltham, was torched by vandals five weeks ago but the council has yet to confirm whether it will
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Fred remembers fallen comrades
LOST comrades were on the mind of a former bus driver when he laid a wreath at the Cenotaph. Fred Chapman, 81, is one of the only two London Transport Old Comrades left from the Second World War. The highly-decorated former soldier was honoured to lay
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MPs are out of touch
A SURVIVOR of the 7/7 London attacks says MPs who voted against holding terror suspects for 90 days are traitors. Joanne Gittins was travelling on the Circle Line when a carriage on a passing train was blown apart by suicide bomber Mohammad Sidique Khan
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Appeal for changes on roadworks
A COUNCILLOR is calling for changes in the way Transport for London (TfL) notifies businesses about future roadworks. The two-and-a-half month revamp of the A232, which was completed on Friday, badly affected traders along Glebe Way, Coney Hall. Now
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Squadron based at school set to close
AN AIR cadet squadron is saying goodbye after being made to disband 65 years after it was formed. Officially, the No 768 (Hayes School) Air Training Corps squadron is disbanding because the group's headquarters on the Hayes School site in West Common
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News in brief
VOLUNTEERS NEEDED: The Bereavement Centre is looking for volunteers to help support bereaved people and help them deal with their grief. All of the centre's volunteers will receive full training and support to enable them to conduct home and office appointments
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On a high to help charity
BALLOONS raced off across the borough to raise money for meningitis sufferers. Around 500 students from The Priory School, Orpington, released 250 helium-filled balloons from the school grounds. The Tintagel Road school's details are written on a tag
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Warning over unnecessary repairs
TRADING standards is warning people to be careful of a building firm offering to do unnecessary work on their homes. Representatives from UK Property Maintenance are knocking on people's doors and telling them their fascia boards need replacing or their
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Schools to offer extra services to community
A PIONEERING scheme where schools provide services to the community is to be spread across Bromley. The Priory School, Tintagel Road, Orpington, became the borough's first extended school in January. Extended schools work with partners in the community
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Learning all about life as an evacuee
THE evacuee experience became a reality for a group of children learning about the Second World War. Thirty-one 10 and 11-year-olds from Chislehurst Primary School, School Road, Chislehurst, were taken to Blackheath to learn about life as an evacuee.
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Lecturers set to walk out
QCOLLEGE lecturers are due to strike today as part of a long-running pay dispute. Members of the National Association of Teachers in Further and Higher Education (NATFHE) at Orpington College and an Bromley College are upset their colleagues in schools
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I can feel no hatred
THE father of a plasterer whose dismembered body was found floating in a Norfolk lake says he cannot bring himself to hate his son's killer. Eddie Simmons was sentenced to life imprisonment last week after being convicted of murdering school pal Alexander
