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		<title>Edwardian Dartford In colour</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[Having a curiosity for the past certainly helps if you are interested in local history; or even live or once lived in a town crammed with history, ssuch as Dartford. Yet all can enjoy photographs of the past, in tinted postcard views, which bring to life the images of a past long gone.&#160; Before the [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Cllr Paul Cutler elected as The Worshipful Mayor of Dartford for 2022/23.</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[The new Mayor of Dartford, Councillor Paul Cutler, was elected at the Annual Council meeting on 11 May 2022. Councillor Cutler is married to Suzanne, the new Mayoress, and the couple have four children Charlotte, Emily, James and Annabelle, who all attended local schools. Councillor Cutler was first elected to Dartford Borough Council in 2012 [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>A royal message for a local man!</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 May 2022 07:45:23 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[95-year-old war veteran Len from Dartford was delighted to receive a letter from Windsor Castle, which said that the Queen passes on her best wishes as he struggles with his health. Len, who was born in 1926 – the same year as the Queen, has lived in the local area for his whole life. He [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>The Dartfordian Award</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Mar 2022 09:05:35 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Paul Langridge, Headteacher at Wentworth Primary School has been presented with Dartford’s prestigious The Dartfordian Award. Paul has won The Dartfordian Award for services to education in the Borough of Dartford.&#160; The award was presented by Jeremy Kite, Leader of Dartford Borough Council and was presented to Paul on 24th March 2022 during a School [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Tree Estate Over 55s’ club celebrates 51st anniversary</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Nov 2021 10:53:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Lest We Forget – Dartford’s Remembrance Sunday Service to go ahead on 14th November</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Nov 2021 10:38:31 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The annual Service of Remembrance will take place at the War Memorial in Central Park, Dartford on Sunday 14th November. The service will begin at 10.40am and following the end of the service there will be a march past by veterans, uniformed and youth organisations. Due to the ongoing public realm improvements in the High [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Kent Big Weekend 2020 ballot opens</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[Roll up, roll up, your annual chance to WIN free tickets to a host of attractions and activities across the Garden of England has arrived. What are we talking about? Why, the Kent Big Weekend, of course! If you’re a Kent resident, now is the perfect opportunity to take a look at some of this [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Dartford Community comes together to commemorate Holocaust Memorial Day</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[Communities and faith groups from Dartford came together on Monday 27th January to commemorate Holocaust Memorial Day which also marked the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz and the 25th anniversary of the genocide in Bosnia.  The event was organised by the Kent Equality Cohesion Council in partnership with Dartford Borough Council and saw [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>WWII Veterans Meet Dartford School Children</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Nov 2019 21:13:59 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[On 11 November, three WWII veterans were escorted by the Taxi Charity to The Leigh UTC in Dartford, to join students and teachers for Remembrance Day assemblies. The veterans, Frank Pendergast, Bill Gladden and Alec Borrie, who have a combined age of 284 years attended Remembrance Day assemblies at the Leigh UTC with year 7 [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>North Kent College supports Sporting Heritage Day with a blast from the past</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[North Kent College proudly supported National Sporting Heritage Day, which focused on the wealth of sporting heritage found in the UK. It is possibly one of best-kept secrets that netball was first played right here in Dartford in 1895 at the Bergman Österberg Physical Training College, now part of the site of North Kent College. [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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