Bexley

An EastEnders script writer who used her own experiences to write the storyline about Ruby Allen’s miscarriages is doing a sponsored walk this month to raise money for charity. Natalie Mitchell, 38, originally from Brenley House, Tennis Street, Borough and now living in Bexley, signed up for the Miscarriage Association’s Miles That Matter 21 with husband Sam Wainwright, a construction engineer.

Refuse staff in Bexley are set to strike for two weeks over poor pay and treatment – meaning the borough will be hit with a “summer stink”. About 140 staff will take part in the strike action from July 12 to 25 to protest their treatment by Serco, who run the contract on behalf of the council.

It’s a day for silly hats, posh frocks and millions spent on fizz. Residents of a care home at least tried to match the silly hats to celebrate Royal Ascot. They also rode handmade hobby horses around the garden, all under the glorious British sunshine.

Residents at a Sidcup care home have not let the pandemic stop them from making new friends. An intergenerational pen pal initiative began was started between Care UK’s Smyth Lodge, on Frognal Avenue, and pupils at Gidea Park Primary School and Farrington School.  

An 89-year-old woman has been found dead in her home in Bexleyheath with a man in his 50s being arrested at the scene on suspicion of murder. The arrested man was taken to hospital with self-inflicted injuries.

Bexley residents have been warned of a  ‘summer stink’ as refuse workers prepare to strike over low pay. Serco refuse workers are preparing to vote in a strike ballot after a dispute over pay and the poor treatment of workers.

The family of a 14-year-old girl who went missing three weeks ago have appealed to her to get in touch. Renae Goode-Garrett, from Bexley, did not go back to school after the Easter break and walked out of her house on April 14, without telling anyone where she was going.

A clubber who left another partygoer unconscious, a fractured skull and a bleed on his brain with only one punch, has been jailed for six and a half years. Bertrand Sisk, 28, attacked another man outside Pure nightclub in Bexleyheath on December 1, 2019.

A 38-year-old man has been arrested charged following the abduction and sexual assault of a girl last week. Matthew Cole, of Abbey Wood, was charged today with two counts of sexual assault on a child and two counts of child abduction.

A mother cat and her five-month-old kitten have been allegedly been shot and killed in attacks only two weeks apart. Ani Powell, 29 from Holmsdale Grove in Barnhurst found her two-year-old cat dead in the garden with a bullet-like wound on her side, and only two weeks later found her five-month-old kitten profusely bleeding with the same injury.