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  • Review of The Other Woman

    Starring: Leslie Mann, Cameron Diaz, Kate Upton, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Nicki Minaj and Don Johnson. Director: Nick Cassavetes Genre: Comedy I had quite high hopes for The Other Woman, mainly because I have always enjoyed Leslie Mann in many

  • Marathon Madness

    Thousands of runners pounded the streets of London last Sunday in the 34th London Marathon. Race organisers hailed its success, with more than £600million having been raised for charity since the event started in 1981. This year’s Marathon main

  • Sheen High Street harbours Barbers

    Not seven shop windows away from Stylist on Sheen, a Barbers on Upper Richmond road, lies a new up and coming Barbers just opened, eager to draw in needed customers from the Sheen populace; It is widely known that competition is healthy and gives great

  • Bug Hill Reopened

    On the news we heard of  great devastation from the flooding that has occurred all over the UK in areas like Somerset but  there were also small pockets of affected areas all over the country, even locally in Woldingham.   Since the beginning

  • Croydon Village Outlet 'likely to be sold this week'

    Administrators running Croydon Village Outlet have said they are hopeful of finding a buyer to take the reins of the troubled department store this week. The North End store, opened by Metro Outlet Ltd just seven months ago, will close if a buyer

  • UPDATE: Neighbours shocked at Good Friday double stabbing

    Neighbours have spoken about their shock at a double stabbing on Good Friday as the air ambulance service released more details of the victims' injuries. Kent Sussex and Surrey Air Ambulance was called to the incident, in Hook Road, Epsom, at 4.36am

  • Easter Bunny visits Leatherhead

    Alice left Wonderland to team up with the Easter Bunny and deliver Easter eggs to youngsters on Saturday. The characters made a special appearance in Leatherhead’s Swan shopping centre, where fun, games and activities were taking place throughout

  • AFC Wimbledon face points deduction for ineligible player

    AFC Wimbledon could be deducted points by the Football League after fielding an ineligible player, the club has announced. The club has been called to appear before a Football Disciplinary Committee (FDC) on 28 April in relation to fielding an

  • Bank workers stop a woman from being conned out of £1,000

    Two quick-thinking bank workers stopped an elderly customer falling victim to a scammer who demanded £1,000 for unnecessary work at her home. Staff at Barclays in Wrythe Lane, Carshalton, became suspicious when the woman, in her 70s, came

  • New tube strike dates announced for May

    Two new tube strike dates have been announced after talks broke down again between London Underground and the Rail and Maritime Union (RMT). Over the weekend the union confirmed five days of strike action after talks concerning the closure of ticket

  • Toddler's head stuck in toilet seat

    Toilet training is a challenge for many youngsters, but few get into such problems as a two-year-old girl who got trapped in a toilet seat on Sunday. Firefighters from Epsom were called out at 6.20pm to a home in Longfield Crescent in Tadworth

  • Mitcham standstill after car smashes into lamp post

    Mitcham town centre was shut down yesterday morning after a car struck a lamp post. Police were called to London Road, at the junction with Lower Green West just before 7am on Easter Monday where a Silver Seat Ibiza had hit a lamppost, causing

  • Two escape fire above shop in Streatham High Road

    Two people escaped from a fire in a flat above a shop on Streatham High Road yesterday evening. Firefighters were called to the shop at 8.22pm on Monday, April 21, where the third floor of the property was damaged, as well as a section of the roof

  • Hundreds left without water on Easter Monday

    Hundreds of people were left for 12 hours without water in Wandsworth Road. Two pipes burst in blocks of flats at about 8pm, on Sunday, leaving residents without water. The pipes burst inside a Lambeth Council controlled area but affected

  • Tree Comes Down on Sutton Court

    After a couple of days and nights of heavy rainfall, a small apple tree on Sutton Court has come out of the ground. It appears that part of the root has come out too. No strong winds were noticed and all other trees on the estate are undamaged

  • Free Haircut In Covent

    A question that has popped into many a student’s mind, when their hair is growing long but their money is running short, is whether to risk a free haircut. You might have seen posters plastered around campus advertising free male haircuts and shaves

  • All of the Time - How West Ham was won and where it got us

    In my last column after the Aston Villa game I nervously reflected that I should not have gotten so carried away. I had no idea that two games later, two WINS later, it would be a mathematical done deal: we’ve survived! With three games to spare

  • Two stabbed in Epsom - man held under Mental Health Act

    A man has been arrested on suspicion of attempted murder after two people were stabbed in the early hours of Good Friday. Surrey Police were called to the attack, in Hook Road, Epsom, at 4.35am, on April 18, following reports of a serious assault

  • Mob bay for blood at Good Friday crucifixion reenactment

    Hundreds of churchgoers took to Epsom’s streets on Good Friday as part of a rowdy re-enactment of Jesus’s trial, crucifixion and resurrection. To shouts of "crucify him, crucify him", Jesus was roped to a cross and followed

  • Do Sutton politicians never consider facts?

    In a propaganda sheet from prospective Wallington local government candidates I read, “cutting income tax has only been possible because we have made the difficult decisions to bring public finances under control”. Do politicians never

  • Self-motivated young person flying the flag for Sutton

    I was delighted to read the story of ‘Young Person of the Year’ Aidan McNulty who set up the website TalkEasy that enables young people suffering from stress to find ways of coping with their problems. 18 year old Aidan was motivated to use his own

  • Ryman League Round Up - Week 35

    Ryman Premier Kingstonian cemented their spot in the play-offs with a 5-1 hammering of Carshalton Athletic at Kingsmeadow on Monday. Two goals apiece from Ryan Moss and Andre McCollin, plus a Sam Akinde strike, crushed the Robins – for who

  • Thornton Heath stab victim recovers in hospital

    A stab victim is recovering in hospital after being knifed in a fight in Thornton Heath Members of the public alerted police on patrol to the fight between a group of men in Brigstock Road at about 8pm on Saturday. When officers arrived at

  • Woman hit by bus in Battersea

    A 34-year-old woman is in a critical condition after being hit by a bus in Battersea. The woman suffered serious head and foot injuries when she was hit by the 156 bus, in Battersea Park Road, at 10.50pm on Wednesday. She was taken to

  • Man dies in Norbury house fire

    A man has died after a house fire in Norbury. Firefighters rescued the elderly victim from a first-floor bedroom in the house in Norbury Crescent in the early hours of Saturday. He died later in hospital. Four engines and 21 firefighters

  • 'Heaven is for real' hits the big screen

    ‘Heaven is for real’ is the remarkable true story of Colton Burpo who claims to have visited heaven during surgery for a life-threatening appendectomy. The novel is written by his father Todd Burpo, a pastor in a close-knit, rural town in Nebraska. When

  • Brentford will be motivated for final fortnight

    Brentford boss Mark Warburton has insisted his men will not lack motivation over the last two games of the season.   The Bees drew 2-2 at MK Dons on Monday after letting a 2-0 lead – given to them by James Tarkowski and Clayton Donaldson – slip

  • Good Friday delight as rescue dogs arrive from Romania

    Despite cancelled travel documents and a day-long delay in Calais, a lorry-load of Romanian dogs finally arrived in the UK on Good Friday to the delight of their new owners. Jennifer Gilbert, 36, of West Hill, Epsom, who helped organise the rescue

  • Nature Notes: Green and pleasant?

    Last year I expressed dismay over the crazy proposal by the government and DEFRA to destroy a centuries old prime Kent woodland nightingale habitat and 'move' the birds to a newly planted wooded alternative site a couple of miles away. What utter

  • Brian Friel's classic play Translations set for Rose Theatre

    It has delighted audiences in steely Sheffield for weeks already, and now this joint production of a well-loved play is making its way down to Kingston. Brian Friel’s Translations, set in rural 19th century Ireland, is a story about love complicated

  • Don't blame hard-working council staff

    The Labour Party Action Team in Ashburton have been talking to residents on the doorstep, the phone and at public meetings for over three years. As you can imagine in that time many people have asked us for help with council issues, especially when

  • Large-scale operation targets Sutton's rogue traders

    Rogue traders and fraudsters were targeted during a week-long operation. Operation Rogue Trader involved officers from Sutton police, trading standards, the UK Border Agency and Sutton Council hunting down the con-artists. The fraudsters target

  • Question Esher and Walton MP at meeting tonight

    Esher and Walton MP Dominic Raab will hold a public meeting for constituents. Residents can ask questions and air their grievances from 7.30pm at the Vera Fletcher Hall, Embercourt Road, Thames Ditton, on Tuesday, April 22. The meeting is Mr

  • Tooting Common to get £273,200 boost

    Plans to restore some of Tooting Common’s most prominent features have received a £273,200 boost. The Heritage Lottery Fund awarded the borough’s parks team the money to develop a blueprint for initiatives celebrating the common.

  • Residents put up banner against new road plan

    Latchmere Lane residents have placed a banner reading No Road Through Here on the perimeter fence of Latchmere House, writes Ben Naylor. The protest is in response to Berkley Homes’ plans to build a road for new houses on the site. A petition

  • Student sets sail on dream job adventure

    A sailing student has landed his dream job at sea on a 56m yacht cruising the Mediterranean as part of an apprenticeship. Sean Nathan, of Whitethorn Avenue, Coulsdon, began his training last October after being selected for a cadetship by the youth

  • Return of the Grumpy Old Women

    Back on Tuesday 20 May to knock some sense back into the nation with their brand new show, The Grumpy Old Women return to the Epsom Playhouse for one night only. Perrier Award winning comedian, writer and original star of Grumpy Old Women JENNY ECLAIR

  • Jongleurs comedy back in Epsom

    Jongleurs have brought of a variety of popular comedians to the Epsom Playhouse for over two years now and on Thursday 1 May back by public demand they will return to the theatre with some of the UK’s best stand up artists. Each time the line up is

  • Primary school children get creative at Easter camp

    Primary school pupils enjoyed an array of activities at an Easter camp designed to build up their confidence. The Year 6 pupils got their paint brushes out to make rain cylinders out of cardboard and beans which sound like the sea when turned upside

  • Suspects sought after mobile phone robbery

    Police have released images of three men they want to speak to in connection with a robbery in East Molesey in February. A man was robbed of his mobile phone in the robbery between 10.30pm and 11pm on Friday, February 28. Two men came at him

  • Coulsdon Celebrates Green Opening

    On 19th April, several hundred Croydon residents - and quite a few from further afield – turned out to celebrate the reopening of the bowling green in Coulsdon Memorial Ground. The event was organised by the Friends of Marlpit Lane Bowling Green