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Motorist branded 'menace' after totting up 44 years in driving bans

Motorist branded 'menace' after totting up 44 years in driving bans

6:40am Friday 3rd July 2009

A motorist was branded “a menace” after notching up an incredible total of 44 years of driving bans.

Antisocial tenant becomes second to be locked out under new laws

Sutton Central PC Lee Wollaston with Sarah Clavey, Anti-Social Behaviour Officer, with Sutton Housing Partnership

4:31pm Friday 3rd July 2009

A tenant who drove neighbours mad with antisocial behaviour returned home to find himself evicted as Sutton police became the second force in the country to make use of tough new powers

Last steam train driver's career makes final stop

Donald Sewell from Sanderstead has retired after driving trains for the past 48 years

8:50am Friday 3rd July 2009

The last steam train driver has just retired after 48 years working on the railway.

Boy charged with murdering teen is remanded

Maleha Masud died last week

4:30pm Thursday 2nd July 2009

A 14-year-old boy has appeared in court charged with murdering a teenage girl who died following an arson attack.

Cops drive car filled with explosives into HQ

3:14pm Thursday 2nd July 2009

Croydon Police headquarter's car park was closed after cops drove in a car stuffed with explosives.

Drug smugglers jailed for £1.5m cocaine haul

CROY: Drug smuggler jailed for £1.5m cocaine haul

2:00pm Thursday 2nd July 2009

Two unemployed men have been jailed for their part in a £1.5m cocaine smuggling ring.

TB and swine flu alert at Morden school

Bishopsford School

12:10pm Thursday 2nd July 2009

Doctors and school authorities have moved to reassure parents at Bishopsford school, after alerts about two serious illnesses were sent to parents in the space of 24 hours.

Two pupils in Trinity School confirmed with swine flu

11:56am Thursday 2nd July 2009

Two boys from independent school Trinity in Croydon have been diagnosed with swine flu.

Child found on railway track after train hits great-grandmother at Hampton Wick

11:30am Thursday 2nd July 2009

A child was found wandering on the train tracks at Hampton Wick after her great-grandmother was hit by a train on Wednesday, July 1.

Teenager to appear in court after Tooting arson attack

Maleha Masud died last week

11:00am Thursday 2nd July 2009

A 14-year-old boy will appear at Balham Youth Court today (July 2), accused of the murder of a 15-year-old girl and the attempted murder of four members of her family.

Man fighting for his life after van smashes into cafe

Crash: The van finished inside the cafe after the crash

11:02am Thursday 2nd July 2009

A man is fighting for his life after being hit by a van that crashed in to the front of a cafe in Crystal Palace yesterday afternoon.

Cases of council fraud rise

9:30am Thursday 2nd July 2009

The number of Lambeth Council staff fired or investigated by police for fraud increased by 400 per cent last year.




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