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for footballers SNODLAND Town Football Club’s seventh annual tournament will take place at Potyns Sportsground on June 16 and 17. Teams from U6 to U15 will take


part and, for the first time, therewill be a girls section forU10s toU14s. More than 130 teams took part


last year and about 6,000 people turned up, including former Eng- land andMan United defender Rio Ferdinand, whose son played. To enter, download an applica-


day will be on May 26, not June 2 as previously reported. Chairman Dave Jeal said: “This


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-


tion form from the club website, www.snodlandtownfc.org/. The club's youth presentation


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


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will start with the sponsored penalty shoot-out followed by pre- sentations in the club'smain stand. We hope to have some friendly matches and activities for the kids, followed by livemusic.”  The club is holding a quiz night at Snodland Working Men’s Club, HolboroughRoad on April 27 start- ing at 7.30pmwith an entry of £5. Tickets are available from Alan


Totham at Home & Hobby D.I.Y in Malling Road. He urged team managers to rustle up at least one teamto support the event.


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


Based on the 1958 Michael


Bond children’s stories, the movie 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


Young boxers’ success at second club tournament


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


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


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.


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


SNODLAND Amateur Boxing Club's second tournament was a huge success, and a large audi- ence turned out at the community centre. Nine local boxers took part in the


16 bouts,which involvedmembers of clubs fromall over the south. The Snodland club started in


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 can earn £170 in a day so it can be a lot more lucrative than paint- ing and decorating.”


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1982 andmoved to the community centre in 2009. Six local lads took part in its first tournament last year. The evening started with four


skills contests of three one-minute rounds with no winners. The 10-


and lived in Ritch Road, Snod- land, before moving to Maidstone a year ago. Mohammed, who has worked at Rezalis in Snodland, A&D Fish- eries in Ditton and Big Ben’s in Maidstone, is relishing the chance to branch out on his own. “I had enough working for peo- ple, I had been doing it for 17


Clean-up champion Alan Keeley


year-old Snodland boys were Ley- ton Arnold, Freddie Clarke,Mason Watson and Lucky Singh. Trainer Mark Burren said the


boys all boxed very well, including the opponents. Junior boxers GeorgeWatkins and Danny Sibley followed, before Sonny Harding, a national schoolboy champion, took on Finchley boxer George Yule, who got the nod. JackBurren,who is still 18,made


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


his debut in his 19th bout as a sen- ior, against Newham Club's Ridge Wabeya, who is four years older.


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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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


YOU can now get a taste of “Peridise” at Brookland Lake car park after the cafe there was re- opened.


Bakhtiyar Mohammed – known


by his second name – has re- opened the premises as Peridise Peri Peri. He moved to England in 2000


Local news for Snodland and Halling Mohammed in Peridise with cafe


years,” he said. “Robert Beswarick at Hicks


knew I was looking for some- where to work for myself and he put me on to the cafe. If you pro- vide good food and give a good service people will use you.” The cafe, which was originally


built for those using Leybourne Lakes, is open from Monday to Friday between 11.30am and 2pm and weekends from 11.30am until 10.30pm. There is seating outside the cafe and a free delivery service.


Pictured right, Mohammed serves a takeaway to Tim Parrett of Birling Road, Snodland


Jack boxed beautifully behind an


educated jab and was the only Snodland winner. Lewis Arnold was the last local


boxer and lost his youth match againstReece Knappett, of Eltham. The medals and cups were pre-


A YOUNG girl who walked five miles to raisemore than £2,100 for the Cure Parkinson's Trust and was named the Young Fundraiser of the Year is holding another fundraising event. Izzy King, who is 12, is helping


her mum, Lucy, run a fun dog show in aid of the same charity. Her grandad Bob Barnes, of Brook Lane, Snodland, suffers from the disease. Izzy walked from Snodland to


Chairwoman Bridget hands over STARA reins


sented to all the boxers by ex-ABA Champion, Frankie Darling from Ashford. Mark thanked the community as-


sociation members who worked behind the bar and providing food for their help inmaking the evening such a success.


BRIDGET Cork has resigned after four years as chair- woman of Snodland Town Active Retirement Association. She is pictured receiving a thank you gift from Alan Champion, STARA vice chairman. Chris Bosman has replaced Bridget as chairman, while


the Spitfire pub at Kings Hill on June 10 last year, as she was so upset about his illness andwanted to help raise money towards a cure. She was over the moon when grandad managed to walk over the finishing line with her. Izzy, who used to attend Snod-


Brian Alvis has become secretary, succeeding Edith Fen- ton, the secretary for the last eight years. Alan continues as the association’s vice chairman, John Filmer as treasurer and Yvonne Wilson as membership secretary.


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land Church of England Primary School and now goes to Hadlow RuralCommunity School, received her certificate at Ward & Partners Children's Award event at theMer- cure Maidstone Great Danes Hotel. The dog show will be held at


Conversion work


WORK was due to start on the China Chaps building in Holbor- ough Road, Snodland, as Town Talk went to press. The company has moved its HQ


Izzy King with grandad Bob Barnes and dogs River and Rosie


to the High Street and the work will be to convert the ground floor retail unit into three smaller units, a change of use of the first floor to two one-bedroom flats and the conversion of existing and newroof space into two bedsits. The ware- house to the rear of the building will become a two-bedroom dwelling.


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Ryarsh Village Hall and playing fields from10amonMay 12. It will have 25 classes for pedigree and crossbreed dogs. Classes range frombest gundog to best sausage catcher – something for everyone. Each class is £2 to enter. If a dog


wins first place in a class it can come back at the end of the show to compete for best in show.


“The showis being organised by


Izzy,” said Lucy. “She has already raisedmore than £370 in sponsor- ship that will go towards the cost of the hall, insurance and prizes. “It will be a wonderful family day


out and will have an English after- noon tea theme – cakes and sand- wiches etc, with all proceeds going to the charity.”


Fundraiser Izzy plans dog show to help trust


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Snowblowto


bole banks RESIDENTS of Snodland were upset by the bottles dumped in the car park at Rocfort Road during and after the snow. A spokesperson for Ton-


bridge & Malling Borough Council said onMarch 12: “We are still catching up from the period of snow,when four days were lost due to not being able to get our collection vehicles to the recycling sites, as well as vehicle breakdowns. “We hope to have caught up


by the end of the week, but are arranging for glass to be cleared fromrecycling sites.” The bottle bank was emptied


onMarch 16.


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