Town Talk


Extra Keith in a brush with stars


PAINTER and decorator Eric Bowyer is back to the day job after his latest brush with the film world. The 61-year-old has been work-


ing as an extra in Paddington 2, the sequel to the hit film about the famous orphan bear from Peru. Keith spent a


day in dress re- hearsals


Pinewood Studios and then acted in a crowd scene at London’s Porto- bello Market.


Based on the 1958 Michael


Bond children’s stories, themovie stars Julie Walters, Hugh Grant, Jim Broadbent and Peter Capaldi, with furry favourite Paddington as an animation. But Eric was disappointed not to


see some of the stars during his day on location. He said: “I was a passer-by in


the market, we were just told to pretend there was a bear there.” Eric, who lives in Gassons Road


with his wife Bettina, fancied trying his hand at acting and joined the


at


books of Uni-VersalExtras about four years ago. He was invited to an audition in Chatham for a part in Tulip Fever, starring Dame Judi Dench and ChristopherWaltz and landed a part. Based on the book by Deborah Moggach, the story is set in Ams- terdam in 1637 and Keith played the role of a peasant haggling with stallholders in a market. He was filmed on various days over six weeks at Conham Hall and he was particularly impressed by the man-made moat around the manor house. A year later, he spent five days


as an extra on the set of StarWars VIII at Pinewood Studios. He said: “I never thought of


being an extra until a few years ago. I heard about a chap doing it and I thought ‘I can do that’ so I wrote off to the agency “It’s not as glamorous as you


might think as I don’t always get to see the top stars,” he said. “But it’s interesting and it’s good fun. I canearn£170inadaysoitcan be a lot more lucrative than paint- ing and decorating.”


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Local news for Snodland and Halling Helping to keep the town clean


DO you know a deserving Snod- land resident or local group to nom- inate as a “Love Where You Live” Environmental Champion? Tonbridge & Malling Borough Council launched the scheme in 2009 to encourage people to make an extra effort to improve the envi- ronment. The last Snodland winner was town council member Alan Keeley in 2015. He was chairman of Snodland


Goes Cleaner and went round all the shops persuading the owners to clean the areas outside their shops. If you know of someone who


goes the extra mile to improve the town, nomination forms are avail- able at www.tmbc.gov.uk/ECA2017 or send an email to lovewherey- oulive@tmbc.gov.uk.


Clean-up champion Alan Keeley Betting shop is taken over


LADBROKES, the betting shop in Holborough Road, Snodland, for many years, has been sold to Betfred. The company has merged


with Coral, which has a shop in the High Street. The Com- petition regulators ruled in July that the merged com- pany, which makes it the biggest high street book- maker in the UK, must sell 350-400 shops for the merger to be cleared. Betfred is buying 322 shops. All the Ladbrokes staff in Snodland are being kept on.


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