Cher Heasmer

1. Whenever you tell people in London you’re from Dartford, they assume it’s miles away just because it’s in Kent. You have to explain that we’re on the Kent border, that it’s only a 30 minute train ride from the capital, and a 10 minute drive into Essex. 2. Before Bluewater, Bexleyheath and Lakeside were the only decent shopping centres nearby. Dartford Priory Centre was hardly worth the bother, and don’t even get us started on The Orchards Centre! 3.

Even at a young age Stephen Lawrence showed promise. At school he excelled at art and mathematics and hoped to become an architect. His mum, Doreen, knew he was destined for big things… Then on 22 April 1993, Stephen, then 18, and his friend Duwayne Brooks went to Stephen’s uncle’s house in Plumstead, east London. They played video games together before making their way home just before 10pm. But while they waited for a bus in Eltham, a gang of five men approached them.

It was late in the evening on 22 August 1961, and Michael John Gregsten, 36, and his mistress, Valerie Storie, 22, were sat in his car in a cornfield at Dorney Reach, Buckinghamshire. As the couple chatted, a man tapped on the driver’s door. When Michael wound it down, a gun was thrust in his face. ‘This is a hold-up, I am a desperate man, I have been on the run for four months. If you do as I tell you, you will be all right,’ a cockney accent said.