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MOVIE REVIEW: The Switch ***
THE Switch may have Jennifer Aniston as top billing on all the marketing, but it’s not really her film. It actually belongs to her male co-star Jason Bateman who steals the show as her neurotic best friend. Kassie (Aniston) is rapidly approaching
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THEATRE REVIEW: Shakespeare: The Man From Stratford at Riverside Studios, Hammersmith ***
LIKE watching your eccentric English teacher get drunk in class and teach The Bard, Shakespeare: The Man From Stratford is part history lesson, part biography and part literary guide. After the success of his one man show The Mystery of Charles
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LEWISHAM: Council invites people to give their views on cutbacks
LEWISHAM Council’s roadshow bus will be stopping off around the borough to give people a say on cutbacks. Residents will be given a chance to put forward ideas on how best to make the estimated £60 million pounds worth of cuts. The bright-blue
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BEXLEY: Online applications for secondary schools encouraged
PARENTS applying for their children’s secondary school places are being encouraged to go online. By applying over the internet, Bexley Council says applications will be checked for errors and will not be lost in the post. Parents and carers can
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VIDEO - ORPINGTON: Artist falls 70ft from Torquay cliffs while on holiday
AN ARTIST is “lucky to be alive” after falling 70ft from cliffs while on holiday in Torquay. The 53-year-old man from Orpington, who has not been named, was said to be looking for a place to paint before he slipped and fell yesterday morning
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WINNERS: Greenwich and Bexley Cottage Hospice lottery numbers
WINNING numbers in the Greenwich and Bexley Cottage Hospice lottery. The Greenwich & Bexley Cottage Hospice lottery provides a great way for people to donate to the hospice and at the same time have the chance of winning a top prize of £1,000
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BEXLEY: 350 people injured in five years of kitchen fires
FIREFIGHTERS are calling on households to take extra care in the kitchen. The safety warning comes following new figures which show there have been more than 350 kitchen fires in the borough in the last five years. As a result more than 60 people
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NORTHFLEET: Community gardens win free makeover
TWO community gardens in Northfleet have won a makeover from a team of green-fingered experts. Garden Lodge day care centre in Deneholm Road and Northfleet Youth Centre in Hall Road will both have their gardens transformed by professionals from Millbrook
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My battle against the Dartford Crossing tolls and booths
This week has been another bad week for motorists trying to use the Dartford Crossing. Almost every day this week there have been lengthy tailbacks causing misery for both those people trying to get across the Thames and for local residents dealing
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ORPINGTON: Golf club president 'victim of unlawful conduct' by US agents
A RETIRED businessman accused of conspiring to sell parts for Iranian missiles must wait to discover whether he will be extradited to the US. Christopher Tappin from Orpington denies he attempted to sell batteries for surface-to-air missiles
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DARTFORD: One-legged flasher avoids prison
A ONE-LEGGED flasher who persistently exposed himself to girls from his window has been sentenced. Graham Shephard, of Princes Road in Dartford, appeared at Maidstone Crown Court on August 25 after being found guilty of six counts of indecent exposure
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BELVEDERE: Fire crews tackle three-hour house blaze
AROUND 30 firefighters were called out to a house blaze overnight. The Fire Brigade was called out at 12.37am to the fire at a home in Methuen Road, Belvedere. Crews from Erith, Plumstead, Bexley, Sidcup and Woolwich all attended and found the whole
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SWANLEY & NORTHFLEET: Miniature trees raise big money for hospice
MINIATURE trees helped raise big money for a Northfleet-based hospice for terminally ill patients. EllenorLions Hospice held an evening in a bonsai garden in Lesley Close, Swanley, and raised £534.00 towards the cost of its care for patients across north
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BROMLEY: Boost your business event at Orpington College
ADVICE and help is at hand for businesses at a free networking event later this month. Bromley Council’s Boost Your Business campaign is coming to FUTURES Training, Orpington College, at the Walnuts. A mixture of seminars, exhibitions
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SIDCUP & ORPINGTON: Kemnal Technology College converts to an academy
A SCHOOL is one of the first in the country to take up the government’s offer of becoming an academy. Sidcup’s Kemnal Technology College converted to an academy this week - one of only 32 to do so since Education Secretary Michael Gove invited
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SHORTLANDS: 'Outstanding' charity chief exec wins award
A CHARITY leader has paid tribute to her colleagues in the third sector after receiving an accolade for her outstanding work in helping young people. Chief executive of online charity YouthNet Fiona Dawe has won the Charity Times 2010 Outstanding
