By Alayna Demartini, The Columbus Dispatch, Ohio Feb. 26--Just about the only people who didn't express an opinion last night on all-day kindergarten in Bexley schools were the future kindergartners.

EIGHT people were taken to hospital suffering breathing difficulties today in Bexley, Kent, after being found on a tanker from Germany when the driver stopped to check his load.

LONDON'S only grazing marsh could disappear unless it gets official protection, campaigners warned today. Erith Marshes received a stay of execution last week when Asda abandoned plans to build on it.

By AMY IGGULDEN A LONDON district hospital is set to be downgraded under plans to shift services to three privatefinance hospitals. Proposals show Queen Mary's Sidcup NHS Trust, in Bexley, could lose its AE unit and obstetricians.

By Richard Garner A grammar school is opening its sixth form to pupils from neighbouring comprehensives whose families have no history of going on to university. The move by Bexley Grammar School in southeast London comes after claims that the country's 164 remaining selective schools are elitist.