Woodlands and nature reserves seem to have been deserted by young people. The chance of seeing a teenager with binoculars in your local nature reserve is becoming increasingly uncommon; you might almost say they are an endangered species themselves
On the evening of Friday the 15th of November most people were snuggling up and preparing themselves for a quiet night of watching the ever entertaining annual BBC Children in Need telethon. The show is hosted by many famous faces including that of
The Banstead and Nork Amateur Operatic Society recently performed Iolanthe, a comic opera written by Gilbert and Sullivan, at the Banstead Community Hall. It was one their most successful productions. The show was thoroughly entertaining and well executed
Matthew’s Yard is situated in Surrey Street. It is first and foremost a coffee shop which is a rather unique place to sit and relax with delightful hot chocolate and delicious cupcakes. Recently Matthew’s Yard has become better known to Croydonians
The moment of magic that led to Dons’ opener deserved to win this feisty League Two clash with Dagenham & Redbridge, but it was not to be. Instead, Michael Smith’s excellent first half header – with a nod to Peter Sweeney’s approach play –
Every year we observe Remembrance Sunday in November and on this day we remember all those who have given their lives defending our country. When we think about all the soldiers who fought in the two world wars and those who are currently fighting
In 1918, ‘on the 11th hour, of the 11th day, of the 11th month’ the Great War ended. On the Western front, there was silence to commemorate all of the 956,703 British troops who died fighting to save their Queen and country. On Bromley High Street
For the past few weeks, I was fortunate to be given the opportunity of accompanying my family who had come to visit London for the first time. I had my Auntie, Uncle and two cousins staying with us for three weeks from Mauritius. To their advantage
Where I live, I have a choice… Not one of grave importance – not one of life or death – not one of mystery and adventure. But, one which is increasingly important in our current economic climate. Where do i shop? - Kingston or Sutton. There has long
They're mostly tatty, dog-eared and - increasingly - rare. But don't underestimate the staying power of them. Intricately made with the finest inks, the most expensive presses and by the most famous designers, the 135mm x 70mm fiber-based paper note
CHS Fashion Show On Friday 15th and Saturday 16th November, CHS held its annual fashion show. Founded years ago, supported by the Senior Leadership Team, and strung together solely by none other than the 6th form girls, the CHS fashion show is
Who will get your vote? With the upcoming General Elections in 2015 fast approaching, the people of Sutton and Cheam must look to the future and decide who to grant to seat of power. Confidence in our politicians continues to sore downwards through
On Tuesday night, Epsom Table Tennis Club lost 4-5 in games to Graham Spicer at the Epsom College Sports Centre, in a highly anticipated Thames Valley Table Tennis League match. The difference in ages between the two sets of players was telling
A major signal equipment fault at London Bridge has caused major disruption to services to south London. Journey times have been extended by at least 30 minutes, First Capital Connect said, on its services from central London to Streatham, Tooting
On the 21st of November, the Epsom and Ewell Business Awards took place for the third year running. The Awards were held at the innovative University for the Creative Arts in Epsom, where twenty-seven finalist businesses and over a hundred and forty
With Christmas excitement well and truly underway, the local area has been bombarded with festive adverts, Christmas culture and Santa’s Grottos but not everyone feels like it is being celebrated in the right way nowadays. I spoke to a few local students
Ballon D’or For? Every year Fifa announces its best player of the season in January. This year is no different as the twenty three players who have a chance of winning the sacred prize have been written up into a shortlist, these players are as follows
A 14-year-old boy from South Norwood was stabbed to death on a bus after another passenger called his killer to alert him, a jury has heard. Kevin Ssali, of Whitworth Road, died after Roree Cox, 18, of New Cross, allegedly ran onto the bus brandishing
A talented Cambridge University student accidentally drowned after becoming trapped in an underwater tunnel in Malta, an inquest has heard. Marcus Hughes-Hallett, 20, of Leatherhead, was swimming in the Santa Marija Bay, off the Maltese island
A Domino’s pizza delivery driver needed treatment from paramedics after his moped and a car collided in New Malden this afternoon. London Ambulance was called to reports of an accident between a motor cyclist and a car in Kingston Road outside
Hundreds of mourners turned out to pay their respects to a long standing stalwart of Merton’s volunteering sector today. Chris Frost, chief executive of the Merton Voluntary Service Council (MSVC), died in her sleep in the early hours of Thursday
A parked van caught fire, with the flames spreading up a nearby electric pole and sending plumes of black smoke over Mitcham and Tooting this afternoon. Firefighters were called to the blaze in Longley Road, near Tooting station on the Mitcham/
Walton & Hersham may have lost 2-1 at Tooting & Mitcham on Saturday, but it was not enough to disuade chairman Alan Smith from appointing caretaker boss James Cameron as the club’s new permanent manager today. Cameron, who places Steve
Scaffolding came crashing down on a bus while it was waiting at a bus station. Police and firefighters were called to the bus stop, outside Putney Bridge station, off Fulham High Street, at 1.10pm. It is not known yet what caused the scaffolding
The Vestry pub in Epsom has been saved from closure by a national pub company. Stonegate Pub Company stepped in to rescue the pub from administrators and have helped secure 18 jobs at the pub. Josh Massen, general manager at the pub, said:
Detectives have appealed for help as they continue a three-and-a-half-year search for an attacker who disappeared following his release from prison. Gentian Morina, 29, from Croydon, breached the conditions of his licence after the end of his sentence
Drivers and cyclists can expect to continue seeing police officers watching over busy junctions as they head to work. Police officers have been standing at busy interchanges, including the lights at the junction of Throwley Way and Carshalton Road
In a suburban area of London, in a town called Purley there have been increasingly frequent sightings of visitors to many of the local’s back gardens. Due to the heavy woodland area backing on to many people’s domestic properties people have now become
The mayor of Sutton opened a new pilates and dance studio in Cheam. Inspiri Dance and Pilates celebrated the opening, on Saturday, November 23, of their new premises, the Chatsworth Studio, on Upper Mulgrave Road. The mayor of Sutton
In a suburban area of London, in a town called Purley there have been increasingly frequent sightings of visitors to many of the local’s back gardens. Due to the heavy woodland area backing on to many people’s domestic properties people have now become
A Christian group has ambitions to open a second school in the borough, this time in Kingston. Chapel Street hopes to provide places for children from four years old all the way through to 18. The company is already in negotiations to open
Detectives have offered a £10,000 reward to help catch the escaped killer of a New Addington teenager. Lerone Boye, 27, has been on the run since absconding from a mental health unit in east London on October 16. He was jailed for life in December
A charity has been forced to close despite launching an appeal for emergency funding earlier this year. My Voice, based in Wimbledon, has helped more than 100,000 children since they first opened in 1991 by offering a mentoring service and workshops
The latest phase of new homes at The Royal Military Academy in Woolwich has just been announced. Developer Durkan Estates is building 14 new homes at Montague Homes with prices starting from £315,000. The latest phase includes a mix of two,
On Thursday 21st November, an excited group of thirty girls in year 12 and 13, were privileged to hear an intriguing lecture by Dr Kathryn Harkup, on “The Shocking Science of Frankenstein.” Dr Harkup spoke for just over an hour, talking to us about
A teenager has been robbed of his wallet and mobile phone in a suspected armed mugging last night. A balaclava-clad man threatened the 18-year-old with what is believed to be a firearm in an alleyway between Sainsbury's in Kiln Lane and East Street
A woman who stopped breathing and died yesterday afternoon was just 27-years-old. The London Ambulance Service was called just before 1.30pm to a home in Langley Park Road, Sutton, to reports of a woman who was not breathing. They sent one
Penthouses in the new Battersea Power Station complex at Nine Elms could be sold for £30m each. The Nine Elms redevelopment's Malaysian backers announced in Kuala Lumpur yesterday that Battersea Project Holding Comapany will start selling 250 apartments
A video showing what the Croydon Partnership's new shopping centre could look like has been released by the developers. Westfield and Hammerson's £1bn transformation of Croydon's town centre was given the go-ahead by the council's planning committee
Up to 30 pyjama-clad residents were evacuated from a New Malden block of flats after a fire broke out at the weekend. Firefighters from New Malden were called at 11.50pm to reports of a blaze inside a flat in Charter Court in Linden Grove on Friday
Firefighters cut the roof off a car to rescue a woman inside after a crash yesterday. A lorry and red Citroen crashed on the M25 between junction 9, to Leatherhead, and junction 8, to Reigate, at about 4.40pm on November 25. A Leatherhead fire
An adventurous feline got itself into a tricky situation yesterday morning and had to be rescued by firefighters. The six-month-old ginger kitten tried to squeeze itself under a garden gate and, not realising it had grown since its last adventure
Get your Christmas cards from Sutton Library and raise money for charity in the process. Cards for Good Causes has opened its Christmas pop-up shop once again selling cards from over 36 national and local charities until December 19. Margaret
Roadworks which could last for nearly 4 months have begun in Streatham. Transport for London (TfL) has appointed CVU Highway Services to carry out improvement works, including the removal of the existing central reservation on Streatham High Road
I, like Wilf Jones, attended the Remembrance Day service at Carshalton, and I think it's a little unfair to call it a 'shambles'. True, the PA system was not at its best, but the attendance was excellent, the cadets, as ever, deserved
Tube workers could go on strike after plans emerged last week to close all ticket offices on the London Underground. The RMT transport union will hold a ballot today on industrial actions after 750 jobs were put at risk by the plans, which could
A Wallington man has gone on the run after breaching the conditions of his release from prison. Burglar Seth Russell, who is known to go by the alias Nigel Linington, was sentenced to a year in jail in April and was released on licence in July.
The planning committee's decision to unanimously approve Westfield and Hammerson's £1bn redevelopment plans for the town centre was hailed a "once in a generation opportunity for Croydon." But Minerva, the landlord for the Allders building, have
The Prime Minister has said selling curry to South Asia is no longer like "selling ice to the Eskimos" during at speech at the "Curry Oscars" last night. David Cameron appeared on stage with Enam Ali, founder of the British Curry Awards and Le
We naturally went crazy when the net bulged and the realisation sank in that Barry Bannan had scored on Saturday. In my mate's living room in front of a surprisingly good quality stream, with cans of Guinness and pistachio shells flying everywhere
A vulnerable 77-year-old who went missing on Friday has been reunited with his family. Peter Boyer went missing from his home in Harrington Close, Beddington, on Friday and his family were worried about him as he is in poor health. But he was
Teachers stopped teaching! The teachers strike cause havoc on school student’s exams and revision. On Thursday the 17th October nearly 3,500 schools shut or partially closed due to teacher strikes. The cause of the strikes was the members of
Two opportunist scores were the difference between Old Walcountians and Old Tonbridgians in a Surrey One 20-5 defeat at Clock House. Despite their lowly league position, it was Walcountians who set the pace in the opening quarter against the second-placed
A former Scout leader has been jailed for nine months after repeatedly downloading indecent images of children. John Worth, 53, previously of Garrick Gardens, West Molesey, and now of Amis Avenue, West Ewell, pleaded guilty at Guildford Crown Court
A crime-fighting family took on two burglars and helped send them down for two years. Brothers Omar Williams, 35, and Michael Craig Shah Williams, 36, met their match in the form of Claire Dunwell and her sister-in-law Kristina Ingram who hunted
Insect-infested rice bags, blood-stained walls and bacteria-ridden ready meals were found in a New Malden shop. Safety inspectors could not trace where the ready meals were from when they visited Ayngaran Food and Wine in Burlington Road between
Two roads in Wandsworth have been named the quietest in the capital despite complaints from residents about plane and traffic noise. Sabine Road, Battersea, and St Margaret's Crescent, Putney, were chosen as two of the best 10 places to get a decent
Pupils at Oasis Academy Shirley Park Primary have become published authors and illustrators after creating a book of short stories for children in Malawi. The students created their stories and drawings while learning about the situation of children
Four Fire Brigade water rescue experts and an RSPCA inspector battled freezing conditions for three hours to save a kitten who had fallen into the River Wandle. Last Thursday the tiny moggy, nicknamed Sparks, fell six feet from the bank, near Trewint
An abandoned kitten named Bethlehem is looking to find room at someone’s inn this Christmas. The unwanted black kitten was found hiding in a shed off Mitcham Lane in Streatham and was brought to the Blue Cross animal hospital in south Wimbledon
Images of two suspects wanted in connection with burglaries have been released by police as they try to trace the pair. Daniel Williamson, 34, is wanted in connection with a break-in at a house in Court Drive, Sutton, on October 23, while Rene
A teenage performing arts student realised her dream of treading the boards in London’s West End after winning a competition to take part in hit musical Billy Elliot. Rebecca White, 18, from Oakapple Close, Sanderstead, appeared for two numbers
Students, parents and staff at Trinity School entertained 160 guests at their annual Christmas party last week. Older people from linked residential homes, diners' clubs and other groups as well as local residents, were treated to tea and entertainment
Old Whitgiftians who were made prefects in 1948, have met for lunch for the last time at Whitgift School. The group have met regularly since their first reunion in 1958, a testament to the bond built at the school more than 65 years ago. Ten
Want to sing in front of thousands of people in the heart of Kingston? John Lewis has spaces for school choirs on December16 at 2pm and Dec 17 11am as part of a two week run of entertainment. Twenty four choirs will sing in the shop between
A New Malden firefighter who hung up his helmet after 30 years last week, has said he is looking forward to relaxing with family during the Christmas period and not being on call. Former manager Mark Feaver, 56, from Carshalton, has called it a
A pro-actions workshop takes place today at the Town Hall in Katharine Street, Croydon. A session entitled “Move your business to the next stage” runs from 10am to noon, followed by “Time management” from 2pm to 4pm and “Cash flow and profitability
Chessington Community College has created a new achievement award in memory of a teacher who colllapsed and died at the school. Dr Jim Gill who taught IT and was a Year 10 form tutor, died after suffering a cardiac arrest in front of pupils on
To celebrate the opening of Walton Bridge, children at St Alban’s Catholic Primary School enjoyed a building bridges design and technology week. Using maps and the internet to research famous bridges, pupils at the East Molesey school learned about
A Hersham flower nursery celebrating 50 years in business this year opens its doors to the public on Sunday afternoon. Woodlark Nurseries supplies bedding plants to Squire’s, Garsons, Chessington and Woodcote Green garden centres, and hosts its
Carshalton College has just been accredited as an Authorised Academic Training Centre (AATC) by Autodesk, the world leader in 3d and post production software. Apart from being able to deliver Industry Standard qualifications to their students, Carshalton
