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  • Gumley students compete to win £1000 for their chosen charity

    Gumley House Convent School FCJ in Isleworth recently competed for the chance to win £1,000 for a charity of their choice. Two hundred students split into teams of four or five, started the scheme in September and each team had to identify and research

  • Drama in the clouds

    Sun and cloud can produce some dramatic effects sometimes - it took a few attempts to get the settings right but these rays of light were worth capturing.

  • Sports car spins on M25 near Leatherhead

    Two lanes of the M25 were closed this afternoon after a black sports car spun and ended up facing the wrong way going anticlockwise past Leatherhead. Traffic was queing after the crash at about 3.30pm with lanes one and two of four closed.

  • Chin chin for pub of the year comp return

    Prospective Conservative MP Paul Scully, or should that be Skål-ly, has launched his 2015 Sutton, Cheam & Worcester Park Pub of the Year competition. Speaking from The Nightingale on Carshalton Road, winners of last year’s competition, Mr Scully

  • Driver in hospital after two cars crash in Selsdon

    A driver is in hospital after two cars crashed in Selsdon this afternoon. Firefighters from Addington and Croydon stood by in case they were needed but the man managed to get himself out of his vehicle. He has since been taken to hospital by

  • Letter to the Editor: Animal torture ‘in vain’

    The first cancer research enterprise in the UK was founded in 1902 and another in 1923 – 200 years of fundraising between them. In 2013, Cancer Research UK collected £535m. It has an administration staff of 3,845 whose salary/pension bill is £130m

  • SWIMMING: Hamerlaine doubles up for Royals

    Kingston Royals’ Yasmine Hamerlaine struck double gold to round off the Surrey Swimming Championships in style. The 12-year-old won the U12 girls’ 50m freestyle and backstroke disciplines as the club collected a total of 12 medals on the championships

  • Housing association leaseholder facing £6,000 repairs bill

    A housing association billed more than £6,000 for work, most of which has not been carried out. It comes while the housing association is sitting on an internal fraud investigation following a whistleblower’s allegations on this website of repeated

  • Sci-fi filmmakers turn Croydon College into a hospital

    Students took a journey into a near future where people can access electronic bridges into other people’s unconscious when a film crew turned their college into a film-set hospital. The site for the filming of Hollywood blockbuster Criminal last

  • Leatherhead march on quietly towards play-offs

    Leatherhead made it six wins and a draw from their last seven outings, as they came from behind to beat AFC Hornchurch 3-1 at Bridge Avenue on Tuesday. Tanners got off to the worst possible start, conceding an early goal to the Urchins with less

  • Future Shorts film festival in Croydon for first time

    Popping popcorn into their mouths and money into a bucket, moviegoers enjoyed themselves when a short film festival came to Croydon for the first time. Fifty people went to the Future Shorts event at Matthews Yard and saw nine films from around

  • Letter to the Editor: Pedestrians have a rough ride

    I'm sure other readers will share my frustration at the issues that blight the quality of life for pedestrians in our town. Vehicles parked on pavements, speeding traffic and crossings which do not allow sufficient time for people to cross the

  • South Thames College student stabbed in Morden Park

    A student at South Thames College has been stabbed in Morden Park. The 18-year-old man was stabbed after a fight broke out at about 12.30pm yesterday.  A police spokesman said officers were called to a south London hospital at 1.30pm to reports

  • Trying to Find: Beatrice Mabel Harvey

    Trying to find Beatrice Mabel Harvey. I am searching for any relative of the above or anyone who knew her. She was born in Cornwall in 1913 and died in Wimbledon around 2005. Alan Harvey  contact: shyangwel@tiscali.co.uk

  • AFC Wimbledon: Beere cannot get served at the bar

    Neil Ardley praised his side’s resilience after they battled through to secure a hard-fought 0-0 draw against Southend United. AFC Wimbledon had to dig in deep at times with keeper Joe McDonnell, in for the injured James Shea, saving down low early

  • Live news: Wednesday, March 4

    5:04pm Thanks for tuning in to our live news blog. More to come in the future I'm sure. David @swlondonwebed  3:59pm   Two lanes closed on the M25 after a black

  • Boxing: Buatsi's gloves are set on Rio

    Croydon boxer Joshua Buatsi has already come a long way in the early years of his boxing career, but now he is aiming even higher. Last year’s light-heavyweight English national champion recently returned from the Bocskai Memorial Tournament in

  • Surbiton special needs school given thumbs-up for expansion

    A Surbiton special needs school has been given permission to expand to make way for 24 extra places. Dysart School, in Ewell Road, had applied to Kingston Council to build a post-16 educational building using a £1,000,250 grant from the Education

  • Vicious Polish thugs 'hiding in Croydon'. Have you seen them?

    Two thugs wanted for extradition to Poland for brutal attacks where their victims suffered broken bones and damaged internal organs are thought to be hiding in Croydon. The men are among 17 people hunted by the Metropolitan Police’s extradition