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workinproperty (Free subscription) | 26/11/2008
Plans for 5000 homes on Kent’s waterfront will be unveiled today as the regeneration body behind it The Kent Thameside Regeneration Partnership is launches the strategy at the first day of the Thames Gateway Forum. More than £30million is expected to be invested in areas including Gravesend Town Centre, Dartford Marsh and the Northfleet Embankment. The money will fund mixed-use development plus infrastructure...
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The Independent (Free subscription) | 25/10/2008
Christine Tucker, 59, an office accountant from Gravesend in Kent, would love to retire at 60, but knows that, based on her modest retirement savings, this is probably a pipe dream. "It would be wonderful, after 45 years of work, to please myself with my day," she says. "I have lived in my own home since I divorced 19 years ago. My partner and I live separately, there are three years to run on the...
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QPR REPORT (Free subscription) | 07/09/2008
- Who knew?! Kent News - Bullard in meteoric rise from £60 a week contract A CALL up to the England squad capped a meteoric rise for former Kent footballer Jimmy Bullard who once plied his trade with Gravesend and Northfleet for £60 a week. The Fulham midfielder was called up to Fabio Capello’s squad for yesterday’s World Cup qualifier with Andorra in Barcelona and is also widely tipped to play some...
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Folkestone Gerald (Free subscription) | 19/08/2008
Crete hall road northfleet gravesend kent da11 9aa 01474 566127 The Pressure Sat 6 Sep 2008
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The Telegraph India (Free subscription) | 30/05/2008
London, May 30: Closed-circuit television is to be installed in cabs in Gravesend, an area of Kent with a high Indian population, following the murder of 71-year-old Sikh driver Gian Chand Bajar.
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rediff News (Free subscription) | 30/05/2008
A British man, who killed an elderly Indian driver by mowing him down with his own taxi, has been sentenced to life imprisonment. Luke Aujila, 21, who was inebriated, attacked 71-year-old Gian Chand Bajar after an argument over the fare in Gravesend, Kent, on May 23 in 2007.Judge Andrew Patience told Aujila that he would spend 20 years in prison for his 'utterly wicked' act before becoming eligible...
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East Grinstead Courier (Free subscription) | 06/03/2008
Rugby: Sevenoaks' thirds took another step closer to Mid Kent and East Sussex Division A glory on Saturday with a tough away win at Gravesend.
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East Grinstead Courier (Free subscription) | 22/02/2008
Gary Johnson, area director business manager for NatWest across Tunbridge Wells, Tonbridge, Sevenoaks, East Grinstead and surrounding areas, recently visited automotive engineering students at North West Kent College in Gravesend to talk to them about owning and running their own garage.
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TREND HUNTER Magazine (Free subscription) | 20/02/2008
(TrendHunter.com) Why should you hire an architect to design public toilets? The answer can be found in the work of trendy, young designers Plastik Architects in London have completed their first public commission: a building for toilets next to a car park in Gravesend Kent. The up-and-coming designers, who were …
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http://babesdb.blogspot.com/rss.xml (Free subscription) | 09/01/2008
Gemma Arterton - New Bond Girl in Upcoming Bond Film in 2008 named Bond 22 Gemma Arterton's Biography and Career Profile Age: 21 yrs Height: N.A. Weight: N.A. Occupation: English Actress (Movie and TV) Gemma Arterton (born c 1986, Gravesend, Kent) is an English actress. Arterton and her younger sister were raised by their father, a welder, and mother, a cleaner. After attending a grammar
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dezeen (Free subscription) | 02/01/2008
Here’s another building with a pointy prow, but this time it's a public toilet. Photographer Edmund Sumner has sent us these pictures of the new facilities in Gravesend in Kent, England, by Plastik Architects.
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Schneier (Free subscription) | 06/11/2007
This was accidental, but it could certainly be done on purpose: Some cars failed to start on Tuesday in Parrock Street car park, in Gravesend, Kent, while others would not unlock. [...] A spokesman said "weeks of sleuthing" by council...
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Chaos Theory (Free subscription) | 04/11/2007
"A Kent librarian wants an exorcist called in to sort out a haunted lavatory. Gordon Jenns, 61, who has worked at Gravesend library for 14 years, says the ghost flushes the toilet when he thinks everyone's gone home. "It's happened...
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Just Gambling (Free subscription) | 29/08/2007
Another story from the BBC: A would-be robber burst into a betting shop brandishing a machete and demanded cash, Kent Police have said. But staff at Ladbrokes in Perry Street, Gravesend, "stood firm" leaving the man, who wore a crash helmet and seemed agitated, with "no choice but to flee". In an appeal, Pc Geoff McCreery said he [...]
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Regret the Error (Free subscription) | 02/08/2007
We carried an article in early editions on July 30 saying that the remains of Flight Sergeant Eric Williams had been recovered from the site in Gravesend, Kent, where he was shot down in 1940 (Battle of Britain pilot's remains...
