That is hardly good news for the Tories, but it should enable them to hold Beckenham.

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Beckenham, in the London suburbs, will also go to the polls on November 20th.

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Beckenham MP Bob Stewart described the plan to boost the reserves by 30, 000 as "something of a pipedream".

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Bob Stewart, Conservative MP for Beckenham, said the government was risking upsetting thousands of people in "normal marriages".

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But they found Colin Goff, 24, of Beckenham, Vishnu Wood, 23, of Edgware, and Jack Locke, 18, of Basildon, Essex, not guilty.

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Last year's runners-up Herne Bay got the Kent Hurlimann league season off to a winning start thanks to a Marsden hat-trick in a 4-2 win at Beckenham.

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The key is, there were alternative venues in the county - and we also offered our own facilities at Beckenham as an alternative even though we couldn't move it to Canterbury.

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