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Lacklustre Vickers Swiftly dispatched at home
VCD slumped to a 2-0 defeat at home to fellow Ryman North side Heybridge Swifts with a poor display from the Crayford side. With captain Danny Penny missing through suspension and David Hunt and Lee Maskell both unavailable due to work and
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Lillies settle for a point in Dorset
BROMLEY returned from Dorset on Saturday with a share of the spoils in a scoreless draw at the Jewson Stadium. But they were rather fortunate to survive a battering in the last quarter of an hour as the hosts extended their unbeaten run to
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DEPTFORD: Wedding company wins award
A COMPANY has won top prize in a competition celebrating the wedding industry. Invitation firm Mandalay won the Best Stationer category at this year’s Wedding Ideas Awards. The firm, based in Creekside, Deptford, is a member of the Guild
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ORPINGTON: Residents donate items for Operation Shoebox
SOLDIERS will be sent shoeboxes full of gifts thanks to a shopping centre. The Walnuts Shopping Centre is asking shoppers to fill a shoebox with items such as deodorant, sweets, razors and wet wipes. These items will then be sent to British
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The seedlings of “grass roots rugby” at Gravesend RFC
I went across to Gravesend Rugby Club at 10.00 am on Sunday, and it could be likened to having disturbed an ant’s nest. Some near three hundred youngsters, (yes 300) age groups ranging from under seven years through to under fifteen years were
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NORTH KENT: Discount bus fares by mobile phone
BUS users can save money if they buy tickets using a mobile phone. Arriva Southern Counties is giving away £30,000 in discounts meaning passengers can get 30p off the price of a day saver ticket and £1 off a weekly saver. To get the
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BROMLEY COMMON: Great uncle memorial campaign success
A CARING campaigner is celebrating after a successful three-year fight to clean up her great uncle’s war memorial. In 2007, Sheila Dartnell from Bromley Common began her battle to persuade local authority bosses to give Stockwell war memorial
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Cray win three in a row
Colin Luckett's penalty-kick early in the game gave Cray their third win in a row, and moved them up to thirteenth in the Ryman Premier table. Leigh Bremner set up the goal with a surging 40-yard run into the penalty area, where he was sliced
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SIDCUP: MP urges housing association to ease pressure on elderly residents
ELDERLY residents fighting to stop part of their sheltered housing scheme from closing have been outlining their concerns to their MP. Derek Conway, who represents Old Bexley and Sidcup, visited Heron Crescent in Sidcup last week to meet the
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HEXTABLE & SWANLEY: Councils accused of losing the plot in allotment row
AN ALLOTMENT keeper has blasted two councils for using her as a “pawn” and letting politics prevent her from remaining on her plot. For the second time in two years, 49-year-old Christine Ford, of Claremont Road, Hextable, has been told she
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BEXLEY: Equality chief warns against right-wing parties in elections
THE director of Bexley’s newly created diversity and equality council has warned candidates in the looming borough and general elections not to play into the hands of right-wing parties. Lux Anandarajah says candidates must avoid making immigration
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HAYES AND CONEY HALL: Shopkeepers welcome new dispersal zone
SHOPKEEPERS have welcomed the introduction of a dispersal zone. The dispersal zone has been introduced in the Hayes and Coney Hall ward and gives the police the power to target youngsters and other people who are congregating and intimidating
