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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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A memorial has been held today for the police officer killed in the Westminster Bridge terrorist attack four years ago. PC Keith Palmer, from Bexley, was stabbed to death as he guarded an entrance to the Palace of Westminster in March 2017.
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Rotary clubs in Bexley and Dartford are launching a series of free workshops run by volunteer professionals aimed at helping the unemployed put themselves in the best position to find employment (or self-employment).
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Three schools in Bexley, all part of The Primary First Trust, are running their own food banks to support the local community during the Covid-19 pandemic. The three schools, Mayplace Primary School, Lessness Heath Primary School and Barnehurst Infant and Junior School, have created food banks to support their pupils and families who are finding it difficult to make ends meet through lockdown.
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An 81-year-old man who was admitted to King’s College Hospital for Covid-19 a year ago says he feels “more like 40” after incredible recovery.
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Three schools in Bexley, all part of The Primary First Trust, are running their own food banks to support the local community during the Covid-19 pandemic. The three schools, Mayplace Primary School, Lessness Heath Primary School and Barnehurst Infant and Junior School, have created food banks to support their pupils and families who are finding it difficult to make ends meet through lockdown.
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A businessman and author Andrew Hampshire, from Chislehurst, is giving something back to his local community by donating 20 scholarships to local performing arts school All the Arts.
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Almost 250 new homes will be added to 600 already being built on a disused 50‐acre quarry site in Erith after changes to the plans were given the green light
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