Football back in Dartford after paper's campaign

Football has come home to Dartford in Kent after a five-year campaign led by the Dartford Times. Tomorrow Dartford football club will play its first game at a new £7m stadium. It has been in exile since 1992, when mounting debts forced the board to sell its former ground to a developer, and it has played a six different venues since then. In October 2001, the Dartford Times launched a "Bring the Darts Back to Dartford" campaign to secure funds from the local council. Jeremy Kite, Dartford council's leader, said: "The Dartford Times campaign helped the club survive." (Via Dartford Times)