Bromley Buzz

Episode 126: Lauretta Wright and Life In the ABBBA awards

Zeenat Noorani interviews Lauretta Wright of Bromley's Life In magazines and the ABBBA (going Above and Beyond) awards. Entries to the awards close at midnight on 8th September, ahead of the award ceremony on 9th November at The Warren in Hayes.
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Episode 125: Fire Brigade, Women in Business, beer, and Olive the Staffie

Zeenat Noorani and Darren Weale share the latest buzz about Bromley.
We feature the Open Day at Orpington Fire Station and talk to Jerome, who uses British Sign Language in his role. We look back on the Women In Business Big Show in Kent and interview Deb Turner, Federation of Small Businesses (FSB) National Lead for Women in Enterprise. That and much more, including the Five Bells Dog Show in Chelsfield - won by Olive the Staffie.
We have Zeenat's regular weekly affirmation.
We are spreading the love! Do listen in and share the Buzz. You can find us on our website www.bromleybuzz.co.uk, where we feature local events here. We are also on Instagram, LinkedIn, Twitter, and You Tube. The Bromley Buzz podcast is sponsored by Ian Wood Property and Terra Firma Landscapes.
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Episode 124: Catching up with Chislehurst Councillors

Darren Weale welcomes back to the Bromley Buzz Councillors Alison Stammers and Mike Jack, this time catching up in the Marlborough Bakery in Chislehurst. They appeared previously when they were running to be Councillors, in episode 52.
We hear about their day to day work as Councillors, along with Cllr Mark Smith, the power and frustrations of a Councillor, local events and the value of volunteers. 
Chislehurst as a community and its carved bears are discussed, along with local sports and wellness activities, and Mike shares publicly for the first time a sporting day for 2024 being held in conjunction with Chislehurst Lawn Tennis Club that will appear in due course on the Visit Chislehurst website. 
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Do listen in and share the Buzz. You can find us on our website www.bromleybuzz.co.uk, where we feature local events here. We are also on Instagram, LinkedIn, Twitter, and You Tube. The Bromley Buzz podcast is sponsored by Ian Wood Property and Terra Firma Landscapes.
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Episode 123: Tim Lees and Chislehurst Life magazine

Darren Weale interviews Tim Lees of Chislehurst Life magazine and its related titles around Bromley, London, and beyond.
We talk outdoors at the Bo Peep pub in Chelsfield, with some noise from happy diners in the background, and the occasional gust of wind interfering with sound.  Tim talks about magazine content such as the Independent Schools Guide, eating disorder intervention organisation Jenup in the August issue, Hever Castle, and Chartwell National Trust. We talk about various advertisers such as Radfield Home Care, Kyn Bickley, and cover story Terra Firma Landscapes, and new restaurants in Bromley. 
We are spreading the love! Do listen in and share the Buzz. You can find us on our website www.bromleybuzz.co.uk, where we feature local events here. We are also on Instagram, LinkedIn, Twitter, and You Tube. The Bromley Buzz podcast is sponsored by Ian Wood Property and Terra Firma Landscapes.
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Episode 122: Our Bromley magazine, Capulets, Montagues and Bromley Lates

Zeenat Noorani and Darren Weale share the latest buzz about Bromley.
We talk about a recent BR1 Lates wellbeing event, and interview Mercedes Yearley of Quest Soul Theatre, sample her show at the event, and talk with an organiser, Steven Smith of Community Links Bromley. Zeenat mentions seeing Neurodiversity 2023 umbrellas, and we celebrate the new Our Bromley magazine, and lots of local news and events from our website What's On page, including the upcoming Produce Show in Chelsfield, and at Hayes Cricket Club, and other sporting occasions.
We welcome the new Zaika Restaurant in Orpington, and pair pole dancing and firemen when talking about the Orpington Fire Station Open Day at the end of August.
We have Zeenat's regular weekly affirmation, read for the first time (twice!) by Darren.
We are spreading the love! Do listen in and share the Buzz. You can find us on our website www.bromleybuzz.co.uk, where we feature local events here. We are also on Instagram, LinkedIn, Twitter, and You Tube. The Bromley Buzz podcast is sponsored by Ian Wood Property and Terra Firma Landscapes.
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Episode 121: Catching up with Gareth Bacon, MP for Orpington

Zeenat Noorani and Darren Weale interview Gareth Bacon, Member of Parliament for Orpington, in our second full interview with Gareth, and published on the second anniversary of the podcast.
We cover lots of ground, including ULEZ, farms in Bromley, Gareth's day and postbag, young people taking work experience with his office, and seeing politicians as people. Gareth tells us about the Orpington Childrens Business Fair, and his annual plant buying tradition. The Let's Talk Better campaign and the suicide prevention campaign the Baton Of Hope are mentioned. Rugby, Westcombe Park RFC, and the Priory Live and Petts Wood Calling festivals are discussed.
We are spreading the love! Do listen in and share the Buzz. You can find us on our website www.bromleybuzz.co.uk, where we feature local events here. We are also on Instagram, LinkedIn, Twitter, and You Tube. The Bromley Buzz podcast is sponsored by Ian Wood Property and Terra Firma Landscapes.
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Episode 120: The Peter Fortune Experience, Part 2

Darren Weale interviews the Bexley and Bromley London Assembly Member Peter Fortune, in a catch up around a year after his first Bromley Buzz interview in Episode 61.
Sitting outdoors at a pub in Hayes, we talk about Peter's role in the London Assembly - with the London Ultra Low Emission Zone (ULEZ) a very hot topic, his love of cricket and an upcoming expedition to Hayes Cricket Club, the new movie Oppenheimer - Peter's review is that it is 'a cracking film', the Churchill Theatre, his being a Crystal Palace FC fan, and training at the Crystal Palace gym, former Prime Minister John Major, visiting Down House, former home of Charles Darwin, and Bromley's Pitts - Pitt The Younger and Pitt The Elder. 
We are spreading the love! Do listen in and share the Buzz. You can find us on our website www.bromleybuzz.co.uk, where we feature local events here. We are also on Instagram, LinkedIn, Twitter, and You Tube. The Bromley Buzz podcast is sponsored by Ian Wood Property and Terra Firma Landscapes.
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Episode 119: Rugby Munchkins, Gentleman Jack, and Chartwell House

Zeenat Noorani and Darren Weale share the latest buzz about Bromley.
We cover a recent day at nearby National Trust location, Chartwell House, the Community House Open Day, where we met MP Sir Bob Neill, Gentleman Jack at Bromley Little Theatre, Rugby Munchkins at Westcombe Park RFC, and more. 
We have Zeenat's regular weekly affirmation.
We are spreading the love! Do listen in and share the Buzz. You can find us on our website www.bromleybuzz.co.uk, where we feature local events here. We are also on Instagram, LinkedIn, Twitter, and You Tube. The Bromley Buzz podcast is sponsored by Ian Wood Property and Terra Firma Landscapes.
#bromleybuzz #ProudOfBromley