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Grill Beef at the golf show

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You can grill Beef at a special session involving the popular Spanish Open champion this weekend. Andrew Johnston, known by his nickname Beef, will be making an appearance at Bluewater to open up the London Golf Show – and he’s giving children the chance to quiz him by acting as golf reporters. The world number 89 said: “Golf is still perceived by some, mistakenly in my view, as an elite sport. “I come from a working class background and there are hundreds, if not thousands, of working class kids out there who could have an undevelope­d talent for the sport. “Those kids are unlikely to be able to visit Troon for the Open Championsh­ip, but they’d jump at the chance to swing a club here, on their doorstep.” Tickets to the London Golf Show, which takes place at Glow from today (Friday) to Sunday, from www. londongolf show.com/buy-tickets, or on the door for £15. A bus driver crashed into a house while twice the drink-drive limit.

Frank Okanlawon, 55, of Wellington Street, Gravesend, was driving the Arriva single decker when it veered off the road in the early evening.

He appeared at Medway Magistrate­s Court on Tuesday charged with driving above the alcohol limit and driving dangerousl­y. Okanlawon admitted the first charge, but denies the second.

The court heard his bus left the road at the roundabout of Darenth Park Avenue in Dartford and struck a small wall at the front of a house.

It continued into the driveway and damaged two cars before coming to a rest when it hit the wall of the next house along.

Okanlawon had already dropped off his last passenger and nobody was injured. He was taken to Princess Royal University Hospital where a blood test revealed he had 166 milligrams of alcohol in 100 millilitre­s of blood. The legal limit is 80.

Magistrate­s told Okanlawon to return to the same court for a case management hearing on October 6.

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