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Look back at 2008 - September

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08:53, 24 December 2008
A certificate of merit awarded to Ulcombe Primary school pupil Nellie Giles in 1917 for "regular attendance and good conduct" was discovered taped to the back of a cabinet in a holiday apartment in Torrevieja on Spain's Costa Brava. Picture: John WardleyCars were well and truly off the menu for Maidstone Goes Green week organised by Maidstone Town Centre Management, the borough council and county council. It culminated with an In Town Without Your Car Day on the Friday. People who travelled to work without using their cars were given a free breakfast. Picture: Grant FalveyNaomi Maddison-Roberts, who was was not expected to live past her first year, started at Loose Infant School in Maidstone. The youngster had surgery for a bowel condition when she was just one day old. Her mother Jill said it was a miracle she had survived. Picture: John WarldeySecurity officer James Stevens gave chase on a Shopmobility scooter when he saw a car make off in the Mall Chequers Centre car park, Maidstone, after damaging another. He followed it up three storeys before heading it off when he reached level 6. Picture: Grant Falvey

Little Naomi Maddison-Roberts started school - defying doctors who had feared she would not live past her first birthday.

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