Bexley

A start-up company has been shortlisted for a business award just nine months after launching.

A pub relief manager and his regulars let out a colossal cheer when his scratch card was confirmed as a £250,000 winner – and he had only popped out to pick up some lemons.

A man has been given a three year Football banning Order after pleading guilty to racially abusing a player earlier this year.

A new homelessness hostel that could prevent more than 150 people a year from ending up on the streets has opened in Bexley. If someone is homeless or at immediate risk of becoming so, they can stay at the Stepping Stones hostel – run by charity body Porchlight and funded by Bexley council – for up to six weeks.

A rare bird, which hasn’t been seen in the borough of Bexley since 2013, has been spotted at a nature reserve which activists claim is under threat from a new waste-burning incinerator.

Bexley’s waste collection workers are set to consider renewed strike action, in the same week that councillors are due to a discuss a report highlighting the reasons behind thousands of missed bin collections in the borough so far this year.

London Mayor Sadiq Khan has made the “difficult decision” to abandon a legal challenge against controversial plans for a new waste-burning incinerator on the River Thames, with the cash-strapped office citing “substantial costs” of continuing with the case as the reason. Mr Khan’s office confirmed yesterday the judicial review, which had been due to start this month, would no longer go ahead.

Bexley councillors have been warned to “consider carefully” their use of social media, after a report was tabled showing half of all complaints against elected members since May this year involved online activity. Bexley’s code of conduct committee heard that social media misuse was the source of four of the eight complaints logged against councillors since May.

An arts and culture centre set in an old library is set for a £1million renovation. The Exchange, in Erith

A man has been charged with the murder of his wife in Bexley. Leslie Winnister, 68, of Becketts Close, Bexley

By Lachlan Leeming, Local Democracy Reporter Long-running plans to relocate Beckenham Library to the nearby public hall have been shelved,

Almost 11,000 people have signed a petition calling on a primary school to refrain from removing foxes from its land.

The Queen’s former cleaner has been recognised by a care home group for her positive attitude during lockdown. Vera Ward,

A teenager has been jailed for seven-and-a-half years after a man died following a row about stolen cannabis. The 17-year-old

Police have seized a suspected handgun and drug paraphernalia after discovering a cannabis factory inside a vacant flat. At just

A man has been charged over an unprovoked attack on a woman. Billy Hibberd, 30, of Boxgrove Road, Abbey Wood