Headlines - June 2008
The recent annual Carers' Week (9-15 June) was a big success in Bexley, with many people taking the opportunity to find out more about services and support available to them as carers.
Woolworths has sold a knife to a 15-year-old undercover test
purchaser at its store in Sidcup. Bexley's Trading Standards Team carried out
the test purchase in the store last week (20 June).
The London Borough of Bexley is asking all residents and local
organisations to have their say on a draft Open Space Strategy.
Almost 200 people attended the first ever Bexley Film Festival
at Cineworld, Bexleyheath, on 11 June. In fact it proved such a success that
it might even become a regular fixture!
Plans to make Bexleyheath more attractive to all ages in the
evening are receiving positive feedback, Councillors heard at Bexley's Public
Cabinet meeting on 17 June.
The Strategy for Change that sets out the exciting new future for Bexley's primary schools over the next 15 years was agreed by Cabinet Members at their meeting last week (17 June).
To help ensure that clients of Bexley's Adult Social Care Services
are able to live as independently as possible, the London Borough of Bexley has
organised an 'Independence Day' event to inform users of service changes and
their individual rights.
The London Borough of Bexley’s Family Information Service
(FIS) team has become the first in the South East to have successfully achieved
reaccreditation of the Matrix Award.
Polling stations will be open from 7am to 10pm on Thursday 3
July for the by-election in Christchurch Ward.
Bexley’s Mayor and Mayoress, Councillor
Nick O’Hare and his wife Maria, learnt more about eye health this week,
when they donned their sunglasses to join in with The Guide Dogs for the Blind
Association's 'Shades Day'.
On 10 June the London Borough of Bexley signed a Partnering
Charter with its professional transport and traffic engineering services provider,
Mouchel.
Two days of fantastic free family entertainment at this year’s
Danson Festival (5 and 6 July) will be topped off by the sweet soul sounds of “The
Motown Show".
The Mayor of Bexley, Cllr Nick O’Hare, presented 11 students from Woodside School with their Bronze Duke of Edinburgh Awards earlier this month.
The London Borough of Bexley’s Cabinet last night approved
a £1.3million programme of works to be carried out to improve Belvedere
Village shopping area, public safety and facilities for pedestrians and public
transport.
The Government's Chief Adviser on School Standards, Sue Hackman, paid a special visit to Asda, Bexleyheath last weekend (14 June) to meet some of the children and parents involved in the 'Making Good Progress' pilot.
The London Borough of Bexley and the Friends of Foots Cray Meadows
are holding their first public work day at the Meadows on Saturday 28 June in
an effort to improve it for both people and wildlife.
Three shops selling fireworks to 15 and 16-year-olds in the run-up to bonfire night last year have been made to pay heavy financial penalties at Bexley Magistrates' Court on 9 June.
Hatfords, a newsagent and tobacconist in Broadway, Bexleyheath, sold cigarettes to a 15-year-old boy on 26 October last year, Bexley Magistrates' Court has heard.
Regulars at the Upper Belvedere Pop-In-Parlour (or Rendezvous as it is now called) in Woolwich Road, Belvedere, have been taking part in an initiative organised by Bexley Library Service, to celebrate the National Year of Reading.
Bexleyheath summer festival of art and jazz will take place on Saturday 14 June. This year will see
the activities extended from the Broadway pedestrian area, into some of the town's venues, and will link in
with the film festival being held on 11 June at Cineworld Bexleyheath.
Bexley Councillors have welcomed he publication of the joint local authority response to 'A Picture
of Health', the proposals by local trusts for major changes to health services in outer south-east London.
Around 300 people and local Councillors attended a public meeting at the Sidcup Community
Church in Station Road, Sidcup on Thursday 5 June to discuss issues arising from the recent fatal stabbing
of Rob Knox.
Full details of the new system for Selection Tests in the London
Borough of Bexley from September this year have now been published.
The London Borough of Bexley is inviting specialist golf and leisure operators to submit their ideas on how the Barnehurst Golf Course and venue could be improved for the long term benefit of the local community.
A by-election is being held on Thursday 3 July to elect a new Councillor for the London Borough of Bexley's Christchurch Ward.
Up and coming filmmakers, many from within the London Borough
of Bexley, are about to see their creations played on the 'Big Screen', after
entering the first ever Bexley Film Festival.
The fourteenth annual Carers' Week, which runs from 9 -15 June,
will see a range of events organised across the borough to make sure as many
carers as possible are aware of the support and advice available to them.
