Harlequins winger Sam Smith's crucial tries in back-to-back Premiership wins are proof the academy graduate remains committed to the cause, says director of rugby Conor O'Shea. The 23-year-old this week rubberstamped a switch to relegation-threatened
A pensioner who died on Friday after 'falling out of a slow-moving vehicle' has been named as 83-year-old John Tulley. Paramedics were called to The Manor Drive in Worcester Park at about 11.30am on Friday but he was pronounced dead at the scene
Striker Ryan Moss is hoping the bad times are behind Ks after his goal ended a run of three straight Ryman Premier League defeats. The 27-year-old fired the only goal of the game on Monday night as boss Alan Dowson’s men beat Wingate &
Proposed improvements to Croydon University Hospital’s accident and emergency (A&E) department face significant delays after a healthcare review which cost millions of pounds collapsed. An announcement from the six Clinical Commissioning Groups
A yellow flood warning has been issued for land near the River Thames from Putney Bridge to Teddington. The Environment Agency have said flooding is possible on the Putney Embankment. People living in the area are expected to be prepared as
Anyone spotted carrying replica AK47s stolen a week ago risks being shot by police, a war games organiser has warned. Thieves used an oxyacetaline torch to cut their way through four locks and a thick metal door to take the 10 airsoft guns, 50
A project to slash the number of children at risk of abuse or neglect has been launched in Croydon. Volunteers recruited by the charity CSV go into homes and help families who need extra support because of issues including mental health problems
Members of Crystal Palace’s first team enjoyed an Argentinean feast at Julian Speroni’s restaurant on Monday night. The aptly named Speroni restaurant, in Purley, opened last year in and players along with their wives and girlfriends took time
A mum is in despair after the roof of her house blew off and landed on top of her caravan. Louise Brazil, 27, of Cotherstone, on the Longmead Estate, Epsom, said the roof of her three-storey house ripped off in high winds early on Saturday morning
Staff at Next Kingston are wearing wellies still with the price tags on from the store to clean up flooding in the basement, writes Kit Sproson. The basement has been affected by flooding since Friday. Penny Binstead, who went into the store
Sadly, London Trocadero, located on Coventry Street, Piccadilly Circus, will be closing down permanently next Tuesday. Formerly known as Funland and Sega World, the entertainment complex is another UK arcade scene landmark that will close down.
Airplane noise campaigners have discovered plans to more than double the number of night flights into Heathrow hidden in a technical appendix. Anti-Heathrow expansion group 2M uncovered the plans to increase the nightly quota from 16 to 35 flights
A fried chicken shop has been forced to close after inspectors found evidence of mice infestation. Flame Flavours, in Thornton Heath, was inspected by the council’s food safety team on February 11. According to the Food Standards Agency
Bodies found in a Carshalton house on Saturday had been there so long pathologists have not been able to identify them or how they died. The bodies of a man and a woman were found in a semi-detached house in Mill Lane on Saturday afternoon after
Sutton & Epsom’s director of rugby, Rowland Cheall, and his coaching team will feel more than a little hard done by that Sutton & Epsom did not secure even a losing bonus point in Saturday’s match against Cobham, being defeated 24-11. On
Croydon is being tipped as one of the south east’s most up and coming destinations at a conference next month. Delegates from across the country will be attending the International Confex at London’s Olympia on March 11. Destination Croydon
A pair of moped-riding robbers on a crime spree struck again over the weekend. The duo, who are thought to be responsible for a month-long spate of more than 10 robberies, struck twice within minutes of each other in Sutton on Sunday.
Police have renewed an appeal to find the killers of a teenager shot dead in his Clapham home seven years ago on Valentine's Day. Billy Cox, 15, was held by his 12-year-old sister Elizabeth while he bled to death after being shot in the chest
A father who has lived in Croydon since he was a child is battling a Government deportation bid that would leave him thousands of miles away from his six-year-old son in Balham. Jermaine Strachan, now aged 26, moved from Jamaica as a 14-year-old
A Morden family is among 600 holidaymakers awarded part of a £1.7m High Court settlement after suffering severe illness at a Turkish resort. Instead of relaxing in the sun, tourists were hospitalised after nightmare conditions including
Battersea’s Bradley Skeete says he was gutted at not getting the opportunity to fight former world champion Vivian Harris on Saturday. The 35-year-old from Guyana failed a brain scan three days before the bout leaving Skeete to pit his wits against
We are organisms made up of hundreds of cells. Some of those cells are called stem cells and these are identical cells of a multicellular organism. They are able to produce more copies of themselves however through differentiation some mutations appear
A 71-year-old man suffered "potentially life-changing" head injuries in an apparent unprovoked attack in Croydon town centre yesterday. Police arrested a 29-year-old man, thought to have run out of an NHS mental health centre before the assault
A healthcare review which has cost taxpayers millions of pounds and made no significant changes to healthcare over the last three years has finally been scrapped. An announcement from the six Clinical Commissioning Groups in south west London,
A 48-year-old man has been arrested by French police investigating the murder of the Al-Hilli family from Claygate, prosecutors have said. Saad Al-Hilli, 50, of Oaken Lane, his dentist wife Iqbal, 47 and her mother, Suhalia Al-Allaf, 74, were shot
Wimbledon hockey club confirmed their status as a MHL Premier Division top dog with a 2-1 win at title chasers Reading on Sunday. Phil Ball and Phil Roper got the goals that inflicted on the hosts only their seocnd defeat of the season, and it
A burglar armed with an axe confronted a teenager in his home on Valentine’s Day, according to police. The 19-year-old was threatened by the intruder on his staircase at his home in Epsom Road, Leatherhead, at about 2.45pm. Police said the
A bus caught on fire in Worcester Park last night. The single-decker bus was travelling through Green Lane when the front of the bus caught alight at about 9pm. Firefighters from New Malden’s green watch were called out to the bus which
Sutton United defender Rhys Weston finally made his home debut last weekend in a vital 3-0 win over Weston-super-Mare. Now the loanee from AFC Wimbledon faces two equally pivotal games on the road as United strive to secure a place in the Skrill
Is it just me or does it seem rather insensitive to have children from the local £13,716 a year independent school seeking donations for a rugby tour, by offering to pack bags at the tills of a supermarket in West Croydon? It is fairly obvious
A flood warning covering parts of Carshalton, Beddington and Hackbridge has been lifted following last week's storms. The Environment Agency had warned people living in areas near the Wandle to be prepared for flooding but that has been lifted
Head coach Alex Codling believes it took a special rearguard performance to fend off Fylde as Rosslyn Park boosted their promotion hopes with a gritty 16-7 victory. Though two of the highest point-scoring sides in National League One, the clash
To quote your article it cost "just £4,500" to build a litter mountain in Sutton so that Council leader Ruth Dombey could have her photo taken in front of it. If ever proof were needed that the lunatics have taken over the asylum
AFC Wimbledon will have a new kit design next season after signing a four-year deal with Admiral Sportswear Limited. This new agreement also has special significance for the Dons because club heroes Vinnie Jones and John Fashanu wore the famous
Croydon Harrier James Dasaolu could be forced to miss next month’s IAAF World Indoor Championships after suffering a thigh strain injury. The 26-year-old Croydon Harrier was competing in the 60m final at last weekend's National Indoor Arena, in
A host of the town’s leading businesses are heading to France next month to encourage investment in Croydon. Develop Croydon, a private sector consortium which promotes the town, is going to Cannes from March 11 to 14 as part of the 2014 MIPIM
Police are appealing for help to find a man missing from Tooting. Sean Hemmington, 27, was last heard from on Monday, February 10. He is described as white, 5ft 9ins, of medium build with short brown hair. It is not known what he might
An MP has demanded two south London train operators improve their "maddening" service. Carshalton and Wallington MP Tom Brake has pushed train operators to improve after a Which? magazine survey showed out of the country's 20 rail operators, Southern
A much-loved century-old pub is set to become a Tesco after owners could not afford to keep it open. Prince of Wales, in Battersea Bridge Road, Battersea, shut up shop last week despite a campaign from pub-goers to keep it open. The pub was
A painting by an atheist British war artist worth thousands of pounds is to be sold by a church after it was found in a cupboard. Before the Sepulchre, a 1944 work by Adrian Allinson, was discovered by a group clearing out the old Ruxley Church
One of Sutton's biggest buildings has been sold for a massive £45million to a mystery Middle Eastern buyer. Quadrant House, home to the Sutton Guardian, has been bought by a Middle Eastern property buyer. But there are no plans to change the
A recovering alcoholic died after overdosing on prescription tablets after fearing he frittered away his inheritance. Paul Morhig, 58, of Belvedere Court, Upper Richmond Road, Putney, was discovered lying dead on the floor of his flat by a friend
Former British Ladies’ tennis number one Sam Smith cut the ribbon at the opening ceremony of the new Downswood lawn tennis clubhouse. The ceremony and party on February 8 marked the culmination of a year’s hard work to erect the £217,000 building
The old Kingston post office which has been left empty by developers for at least 10 years could soon become a children’s nursery. A planning application has been submitted to change the Old Sorting Office in Eden Street into a children’s play
A deputy mayor of London was among the first to see an affordable housing 'cube' unveiled in Wimbledon. The self-contained units could be installed in the Clay Avenue area of Mitcham after the display at the YMCA on the Broadway, Wimbledon.
Mystery surrounds the disappearance of a historic flag donated to a church after the biggest naval battle of the Great War. A local historian, who started the campaign to get St Barnabas in Temple Road, Epsom, to reinstate its rolls of honour discovered
A woman who drank at Ewell springs as a girl believes the current flooding is the result of a series of poor decisions made over many years. Valerie Brewer, 74, who has lived in Ewell Village since the age of four, said she used to drink the spring
More than 30 Banstead Community Junior School pupils braved a stormy Valentine’s Day to decorate their bikes in the Love Your Bike competition to promote being a Bike It school. Lucy Bishop, a teacher at the school in The Horseshoe, Banstead, said
A freeze will be placed on Elmbridge Council’s portion of council tax for the next two years. The council’s cabinet agreed to accept a council tax freeze grant from the Government, the equivalent of a 1 per cent increase, which would be received
Children at St Albans Catholic Primary School enjoyed a week filled with space-related activities. As part of maths and science week, which took place in the lead up to half term, children learned about the properties of 2D and 3D shapes. Youngsters
A stained glass window left untended for 20 years has been restored to its rightful place in the chapel at Ashford Hospital. The window, depicting Christ with the lamb, was all that remained of the old chapel demolished in 1994. Originally
Homes and businesses damaged during the floods will be given financial help by Elmbridge Council. The council has set up a hardship fund for those without insurance cover and applicants will be looked at on a case-by-case basis. The money will
