Money was stolen this morning, estimated to be £250, from a small coffee shop at Thames Ditton station. The owner, a friendly Italian man, had been busy with his usual chores from 9.30am and had left the counter to stand by the heater in the next room
A vehicle is reported to have hit a railway bridge outside Hampton Wick and Kingston station, temporarily delaying trains in the area. More to come.
A private contractor hired by the council to run Croydon's libraries has made 11 staff redundant since taking charge, it has emerged. Managers and qualified librarians are understood to be among the workers who have lost their jobs since John Laing
Two men have been bailed and another released in connection with a fight outside a nightclub at the weekend. Door staff and three men were involved in the altercation outside Elements in Spread Eagle Walk, Epsom, just before 3am on Saturday.
An elderly man fell down in the middle of a high street yesterday. The injured man was taken to hospital after falling down in Epsom High Street near the clock tower. Police attended the scene and a section of the high street was closed at
A pensioner who used a fake blue badge to park in Kingston has been ordered to pay more than £300. William Millar, 77, bought the photocopied parking permit for £70 at barbecue in Ireland two years ago. He was caught after parking his BMW in
Love it or hate it, internet search engines have become a crucial tool for information gathering and sharing in the 21st century. Google, the world's most popular search engine, contains an 'auto-complete' feature which helps users search for specific
A grandmother has been reunited with her pooch after her ex-boyfriend sold him online. An emotional reunion took place at Battersea Dogs and Cats Home, last Thursday, when Susan Skinner, 53, from Essex, finally got to cuddle her Jack Russell, Alfie
A charity providing respite to children growing up in areas blighted by the fallout from the Chernobyl Nuclear Disaster is looking for people to host them this summer. The Mid-Surrey Link of the Chernobyl Children's Lifeline Charity hopes to invite
Hercules Wimbledon Athletic Club's young athletes open meeting, which was staged for the first time more than 30 years ago, will be held for the first time at the club's Wimbledon Park track headquarters next month. Many Olympic and international
Croydon schools will receive a funding boost amounting to millions it was announced today. The borough will get an extra £12.4 million after it was highlighted as one of the least fairly funded councils in the country by the government. It
A lorry and two cars crashed on a major road this morning. Emergency services were called to the northbound side of the Brighton Road (A217) before the Kingswood roundabout at 8.40am. A police spokeswoman said a red lorry, black hatchback and
Westfield and Hammerson’s plans to redevelop the Whitgift Centre are set to take a major step forward at the end of the month. Croydon Council will meet to discuss the use of compulsory purchase orders (CPOs) in which land can be bought from
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Hundreds of thousands of people are expected to make the pilgrimage to Epsom when the England's only First World War Centenary Wood opens there this autumn. The 640-acre forest is to be created at Langley Vale, on the border between Epsom Downs
A consultation has been launched to see if people support Tooting and Balham becoming 20mph zones. Up to 30,000 residents in the Bedford and Furzedown wards will be able to have a say on whether they are in favour of lower speed limits in their
First team coach Simon Bassey hailed the current Dons squad as the best ever after watching them hold the League Two leaders to a 1-1 draw on Tuesday night. In a markedly improved performance to the 1-0 defeat to York at the weekend, Dons and Chesterfield
A man has been arrested after a shopkeeper was threatened with a golf club. A fight is believed to have broken out before threats at the newsagents in Shelvers Hill, Tadworth, just before 5pm on Friday. The store worker and man with the golf
In North West London, broken fences and fallen trees. D’Andre Phillips , a teenager who lives in Willesden, woke up to find his fence ’ torn apart’ by the gale force winds, with cracked bricks missing in the walls of his garden. ‘’Thanks to the wind
Nusrat Press Club, in its quest to promoting student journalism and ethical media practice among the student folk in the Gambia, on Friday 07th March 2014 held a day-long press training for its newly recruited members on basic ethics of media practice
It was fantastic to be part of a flashmob event in Sutton on the weekend. Led by the voices of the NHS Choir, a group of campaigners committed to saving vital services at St Helier Hospital made their way through the Sutton high street, along with
I find it absolutely disgraceful that Labour showed political opportunism at the recent full council meeting by voting against the £25 council tax rebate. They have gone against all Croydoners despite knowing full well that the Council was
A man accused of murdering his six-year-old daughter blew a kiss to the girl's mother as he was taken into custody after being refused bail. Ben Butler has been remanded in custody accused of the murder of his six year-old daughter Ellie. Mr
I was shocked to hear that, at last week’s meeting, Sutton Council voted to increase rents by a whopping 6.5 per cent, and only a single councillor (Labour's John Keys) opposed it. This is a crazy amount when inflation is below
The Council’s chief executive was alerted to staff concerns about malpractice, corruption and unlawfulness relating to the hiring of consultants ten months before a whistleblowing document forced him to investigate, it emerged last night. Unanswered
Danny Anderson says he is as ready as he can be when he takes his Queensbury Boxing League bow this weekend. Anderson, from New Addington, will step through the ropes at the Alexandra Palace in London on Saturday to face fellow debutant John Moloney
A distressed father is appealing for help finding his son who disappeared following surgery. Today the father of Marc Hutton, a 28-year-old accountant from Putney, has released a statement urging people to help trace his son. The last known
Croydon Council may have to reuse existing graves after plans to bury the town’s dead outside the borough were rejected. Tandridge District Council rejected plans from the council to build extra graves at the Greenlawn Memorial Park in Warlingham
Police have joined forces with council officers to stop the misuse of disabled parking bays in Sutton. They will carry out regular patrols in the town centre together to find drivers who park in the spaces while using another person’s badge, a
The Cheltenham Festival continued to offer up some great stories and results yesterday . The story of the day was Sire De Grugy winning the Queen Mother Champion Hurdle. A group of Palace fans own the horse and the parade ring and winners
Sutton and Cheam MP Paul Burstow has defended his decision to back a controversial Government reforms campaigners fear could threaten St Helier hospital. Mr Burstow voted in favour of clause 119 - a reform to the care bill that gives the health
Pirates, Tinkerbell and Little Red Riding Hood all turned out to celebrate World Book Day at a Wimbledon nursery. Children aged three and four years old brought their favourite books into Playdays Nursery in Queens Road and dressed up as their
A 25-year-old man was arrested last night after allegedly abducting a woman outside Crystal Palace station. Police were alerted to alleged abduction of a 26-year-old woman at 5.34pm on Wednesday, March 12. Officers who stopped a van in Beckenham
Beddington boxer Sunny Edwards criticised his England trainers and the referee after missing out on gold at the GB Three Nations in Edinburgh last weekend. The 18-year-old five-times ABA national champion lost 2-1 in rounds to Scottish home-grown
Pregnant women in Wandsworth have one of the highest rates of flu vaccinations in London. Staff at St George’s Hospital, in Tooting, are pleased after a new report revealed Wandsworth’s mums-to-be are have been heeding their advice. The NHS
Rosslyn Park saw off Tynedale – the form team in National League One – on Saturday to keep their promotion charge very much alive. But despite sitting second and hot on the heels of league leaders Doncasters Knights, who they face at the end of
If Crystal Palace cling on to their Premier League status it will likely be built on increasing defensive stability rather than cutting edge attacking play, says defender Damien Delaney. Though the Eagles lost 1-0 against Southampton on Saturday
When we asked you to send in questions for the borough commander Chief Superintendent Dave Musker you got in touch on a wide variety of issues. Chief reporter Robert Fisk took your questions to Croydon’s top cop to see what he had to say. What
A singing flash mob and a musical fire engine brought the town centre to a standstill as protesters continued their campaign to save St Helier Hospital. A large group of campaigners from Keep Our St Helier Hospital gathered at Sutton station with
More than 30 firefighters had to deal with a blaze that gutted a dry cleaning warehouse in Sutton yesterday. Six fire engines were called to the fire in a two floor warehouse in Minden Road of Kimpton Park Way just after 6am on Tuesday, March 13
Two car criminals gave themselves away when one of them was arrested wearing a Nike rucksack stolen from one of the three BMWs they had just broken into. Police were called at about 2.40am on Monday morning after a man had seen two youths trying
A Surbiton college, which was told it could lose £1.5m in funding unless it improved rapidly, has been graded good following a re-inspection by Ofsted. Hillcroft College, in South Bank, was given the second-highest grading by inspectors following
Cops were treated to cakes as part of a fundraising drive in memory of a police worker’s father who died from a brain tumour. Sarah High wheeled a trolley full of sweet treats around the corridors and offices at Sutton police station for her Bandanas
A Dubai-based international real estate agency has been accused of making false claims about the development potential of greenbelt land it is offering on Epsom Downs. Kings Land is advertising exclusive plots in the "Epsom Hills", off Downsway
Campaigners are celebrating a £150,000 scheme to make William Morris House accessible for wheelchairs. The upper ground floor of the late Victorian building, used as meeting rooms in the Broadway, will be converted, with a lift being installed.
Celebrity supporters including actors Nathaniel Parker and Larry Lamb and pop stars Richard and Fred Fairbrass will be joining thousands of other walkers for this year’s Marsden March. The 5,000 walkers taking part on Sunday (March 16) will be
An integrated multi-arts company which lets disabled and non-disabled adults work with professional artists is coming to Cobham. The Freewheelers Theatre Company gives people with and without disabilities the chance to produce and participate in
Wildflowers, hawthorn and cherry plum were planted at a Mitcham allotment in a bid to spruce it up. Passers-by joined dozens of volunteers at the Tamworth Farm Allotment in London Road on Saturday, March 8, to bed in a broad range of plants at
A hospital trust serving the people of Elmbridge is meeting essential standards of care, a Care Quality Commission report has revealed. Ashford and St Peter’s Hospitals Trust had an unannounced visit by inspectors on January 12 and 13, which focused
A flag raising event was held at Elmbridge Council to mark Commonwealth Day. The mayor of Elmbridge, Councillor Mike Bennison, raised the flag outside the civic centre on Monday, March 10, and a specially written commonwealth affirmation was read
A man walked into a court of law completely unaware he was armed with a sword. A 56-year-old man walked into Lavender Hill Magistrates Court, in Battersea, on Tuesday, March 4. Security staff searched him and found a sword concealed inside
