Bromley

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Extra, Extra

Later-than-usual Tuesday news.

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Preview: LeeFest 2011, 12-13 August

Music and general fun at Highams Hill Farm, near Croydon and Bromley.

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Top Ten Things To Do In The Borough Of Bromley

Boring Bromley no longer…

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Weekend Round-Up

So the world didn’t end. Here’s what has been happening around the capital in the meantime…

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More London Councils Vote-In Huge Spending Cuts

Protest across London last night, as five more councils vote in cuts.

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Local Bromley Paper Worried About PAEDOS

We’ve brought you news about nurseries getting paranoid when it comes to protecting their little charges, but how about this for a reversal – Bromley residents don’t want a nursery near them because it might attract PAEDOS. The News Shopper reports that Sunnyfields Day Nurseries’s …

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STYLEist: The Rising Designer Interviews – Georgia Nash

London’s taste for the eclectic and avant-garde keeps it firmly at the frontiers of fashion – creating the perfect, fertile environment from which an abundance of new designers can emerge. The energy and diversity of the city has been a constant source of inspiration for …

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This will please Bob Crow: the Tories have proposed driverless tube trains. Bromley’s Safer Neighbourhood team are themselves under investigation. London’s NHS leaders are dropping like flies. Kilburn’s annual festival is going through lean funding times. N-Dubz’ Dappy is no fan of stop and search. …

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Coked Up In Suburbia

Image by chrisjohnbeckett from the Londonist Flickr pool Stop sniffing… you, in the corner of the room, buttonholing some terrified-looking soul and banging on about something random… you might think you’re projecting an image at the bleeding meeja edge of popular culture with your Bolivian …

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Ronnie Wood has been arrested in connection with a domestic assault. Southwark and Bromley are slacking on the social care front. The Beeb and Sky are wrangling over who gets to show the paralympics. TfL accuse the RMT of scaremongering over safety issues. A burst …

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The Saturday Strangeness

128. Putting the ‘cat’ in Catford! The recent ‘Palace puma’ and ‘Sydenham beast’ fiascos had kind of given reports of large, exotic cats a bad name. Firstly there were the media inaccuracies of the former – there was no puma – meanwhile the latter saw …