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BROMLEY: Schools encouraged to join gardening campaign
PRIMARY schools without a garden are being encouraged to sign up to a nationwide gardening campaign. The Royal Horticultural Society launches Get Your Grown-ups Growing in October and is calling on schools to get involved to teach youngsters about
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BROMLEY: 2,000 items handed into TfL lost property office
AROUND 2,000 lost items have been handed into bus garages and train stations across the borough in the last year. Among the objects handed in were a total of 342 bags, 320 books, 292 items of clothing, 265 phones and 145 keys. There are approximately
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BIGGIN HILL: Teachers fall from skies for soldiers' charity
TWO brave teachers helped their school reach its charity fundraising target by overcoming a fear of heights for a sponsored 13,000ft parachute jump. Charles Darwin School teachers Anne Adams and Katy Farrell raised more than £1,000 for charity Help
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BEXLEY: Get out in the garden and Make Your Nature Count
PEOPLE are being asked to keep their eyes peeled for garden visitors over the next week. The RSPB is trying to build up a picture of the wildlife visiting London’s gardens at this time of the year, which will help produce a snapshot of how each species
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BEXLEY: Raising the flag for the armed forces
THE flag will be flying outside Bexley civic offices on June 21 as the borough salutes the country’s armed forces, past present and future. New mayor Councillor Val Clark is inviting the public to join her at the flagpole in Bexleyheath Broadway for
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BEXLEY: The things people leave on buses
BAGS, items of clothing and books were the most likely property to be left behind by people travelling on public transport in Bexley. Transport for London (TfL)says more than 3,000 lost items were handed in at bus garages and railway stations in Bexley
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SHOP A YOB: Help police catch bus vandals
THE fight against criminal damage on London’s buses has been successful in driving down the amount of damage and saving the capital’s bus companies millions of pounds. Since operation BusTag was launched in November 2004 by the Met Police’s safer transport
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BECKENHAM: Man found dead after car and house fire identified
DENTAL records have confirmed the identity of a 44-year-old man found dead after a house fire. Firefighters found the body of Andrew Cox after they forced their way into a house in Gainsborough Close, Beckenham. A post-mortem examination
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Rugby festival proves a hit at Shoots
THE inaugural Shooters Hill mini rugby tag rugby festival took place last month, with eight schools in Lewisham and Greenwich boroughs taking part. More than 170 children took part on the day, providing 12 teams which were split up into two
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BROMLEY: Friends group holds plant pot competition
A KEEN gardener has come top in a plant pot competition. Organised by the Friends of Bromley and Sheppard’s Colleges, competitors were asked to produce a pot having spent less than £10 on their plants. Winner May Dias-Abeyesinghe picked up £25 in
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BEXLEY: Police warn residents to lock their uPVC doors
ENTRY through unsecured uPVC doors have accounted for a quarter of all the burglaries in Bexley in just two weeks. Bexley police say residents gave easy access to thieves in 11 of 43 house burglaries which took place between May 9 and May 23. Burglary
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Game review: Split/Second Velocity - PlayStation 3
Split/Second: Velocity puts an explosive new spin on the usual racing game formula of driving as fast as possible to the finish line. The game takes place within a make-believe TV show, where the courses are not race tracks but sets inside a custom-built
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SWANLEY: Stephen Lawrence murder suspect facing prison for drugs charges
A SUSPECT in the 1993 murder of Stephen Lawrence is facing prison after admitting supplying cannabis. Gary Dobson, 34, pleaded guilty to supplying class B drugs and possessing class B drugs with intent to supply at Kingston Crown Court yesterday
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DARTFORD: Princes Park football ground in England 2018 World Cup bid
AN AWARD-winning north Kent stadium has been included in London’s bid to host the 2018 World Cup. Princes Park stadium in Dartford has been put forward as a potential venue for visiting national football teams to use for public training sessions
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NORTHFLEET: New PCSOs out on the beat
NORTH Kent residents can expect to see the faces of three new PCSOs out on the beat. Kent police has deployed Kelly Shurmer in the Northfleet North ward, Liam Grindley in the Coldharbour ward in Northfleet, and Stephen Keers in the Castle ward
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HAVE YOUR SAY: Sport Rant - time for Liverpool and Everton to do ground deal
Welcome to this week's News Shopper Friday sport opinion column. Read our rant and join the debate by adding your comments. RAFA Benitez called time on his six-year reign at Anfield with a handy £6m pay-off to send him on his way yesterday. The
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LEWISHAM: Gang boasted on YouTube after slashing man's neck
EIGHT teenagers have been found guilty of slashing a man's neck and then bragging about it on YouTube. The youngsters, aged 16 to 18, punched a 26-year-old man at a birthday party in Ottenden Street, Lewisham, before hitting him with a brick
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LEWISHAM: Tutor guilty of sexually abusing children
A 47-YEAR-OLD private tutor has been found guilty of sexually abusing two girls he was hired to teach. Ugochukwu Okorie, of St Johns Court, Lewisham, was convicted at Inner London Crown Court of two counts of sexually assaulting a 10-year-old
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LEWISHAM: Hospital trust named in top 40 list
A HOSPITAL trust has been singled out for praise after being named in a top 40 national list. Every year the independent healthcare researcher, CHKS, names its top 40 UK hospitals based on 21 key performance indicators. For the second
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Game review: Fruit Ninja - iPhone / iPod Touch
Why is everything that comes out of Australia so annoyingly good? In sport, whatever they choose to take seriously they dominate, whether it’s driving cars or whacking cricket balls. Daytime TV soaps – no use bothering because the Australians do these
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CATFORD: Missing 11-year-old girl found safe
A MISSING 11-year-old girl has been found safe. Sarah Kabasele was found by officers in the Catford area last night (June 3). She had not gone missing before and there were serious concerns for her welfare due to her young age. Sarah was seen
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Game review: Blur - PlayStation 3
Step inside the neon world of Blur for an exhilarating cosmic ride of a racing game, with super-fast driving and cool weaponry. As the TV ad for the game says, you really can race like a big boy. Blur’s name is appropriate for its impressive sense of
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NORTHFLEET: Video production course at youth centre
A YOUTH centre is running a course this summer to help young people learn the skills to make it in the media industry. Northfleet Youth Centre in Hall Road is holding a video production course for 13 to 19-year-olds from August 9 to 13, with classes
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DARTFORD: Campaign to reinstate assistance over Dartford Crossing
A CAMPAIGN to reinstate traffic patrols to help drivers with vertigo and claustrophobia cross the Dartford Crossing is under way. Jeffrey Goodwin and Albert Smith have launched Reinstate Assisted Dartford Crossing Escort Patrols (RADCEP)
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Gravesend Mayor
On Saturday June 12 the Mayor will be hosting a small reception in the Parlour for the Gravesend Rugby Club and Gravesend Rowing Club who will be doing an open top bus tour from the club to the civic centre. On Sunday June 13 the Mayor will attend an
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U3A Meetings
U3A is a national organisation for retired and semi-retired people that offers the opportunity to share knowledge, experience and talents with others and learn from them in friendly surroundings. The national web address is www.u3a.org.uk, where you
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Stamp Club
The District Stamp Club are holding thier summer auction on Friday June 18, starting from 7pm. The club meet at St Paul's URC church, Singlewell Road.
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Summer Fete
Christ Church, Old Road East, are holding their summer fete on Saturday June 19 from 2.30pm, adults 50p admission, children are free. Stalls wil include games, books, plants and refreshments.
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PENGE: £62k grant to make church for community
A CHURCH’S dream of becoming a centre for the community has got one step closer thanks to a £62,000 grant from English Heritage. Daron Medway became the vicar at St John the Evangelist in September 2008 and its location made him think it would be ideal
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BEXLEY: Police crackdown on mass postal scams
BEXLEY pensioner John Flunder was chosen by the Met Police to help front its campaign against postal scams. Mr Flunder, 80, editor of Bexley Pensioners’ Forum’s magazine, joined Detective Chief Inspector Nick Downing from the Met’s economic
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GRAVESEND: Firefighters tackle fire in block of flats
THIRTY firefighters battled a blaze in a block of flats in Gravesend overnight. The fire did not spread from the first home where it started at around 11.45pm last night (June 3) but smoke seeped into seven other flats. Everyone living in the building
