04 March 2025 - Upset as
school scraps World Book Day
dress-up
Some parents disappointed after
Langafel primary stop marking the day, because they say it is disruptive and
a costly burden to parents
BBC
Website
31 March 2025 - Hartley
Crime Report: March
Theft of dumper
truck - 1 (Bramblefield); break in to garage - 2 (Brambledown, Bramblefield);
criminal damage - 2 (Northfield, Wellfield)
E-Watch
31 March 2025 -
Longfield Crime Report: September and
October
Theft of vehicles - 1 (Essex
Road); attempted theft of vehicles - 1 (Station Road)
E-Watch
03 April 2025 -
Magistrate apologises to drink driver for 'mix up' oveer
arrest
69 year old from Wellfield had
sent email saying he couldn't attend due to brother's funeral, but it wasn't
passed on to magistrates who issued warrant for his arrest by mistake, with
result he was arrested and held overnight by police.
Gravesend & Dartford Messenger
09 April 2025 - 'We will
be stranded when bus route is
scrapped'
Arriva plan to axe 489 New Ash
Green to Gravesend route on 1 June.
Interviews with local residents about the problems this will
cause. This will leave New Ash Green
and Hartley with just 5 buses a day, with the last one at 2.15pm
BBC
Website
12 April 2025 - Bus
service to hospital and shopping centre to be
axed
Article about 477 bus being
terminated at Dartford town centre. It
also mentions that Arriva plan to axe the 489 New Ash Green to Gravesend
route on 1 June
Gravesend &
Dartford Messenger