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Council 'jolly' costs taxpayer almost £9k

Merton town hall

7:00am Friday 10th July 2009

An away day for top council officers to discuss Merton’s looming financial crisis cost £8,750.

Hooray for 'hero' milkman

Grant Ramsay with his wife Linda photographed at St Mary's Church by Georgia Perkins from Burntwood School

6:50am Friday 10th July 2009

A small Balham community has united in declaring their milkman of 16 years a “local hero” after beginning his tough battle with leukaemia.

Duo to tackle every tube station in London

Duo to tackle every tube station in London: Simone Handy and Kobie Child

6:50am Friday 10th July 2009

A Sutton woman will attempt to travel to all 313 London Underground stations in 24 hours to raise money for charity.

Cherry Orchard Road development may be refused by planning committee

An impression of what the Menta development will look like

6:40am Friday 10th July 2009

A major investor may pull out of Croydon if the planning committee rejects its £500million development deal next week.

MPs: 'Kingston needs three new primary schools'

6:40am Friday 10th July 2009

Kingston needs to build three new primary schools to cope with the huge demand expected for reception class places by 2012, according to local MPs Susan Kramer and Edward Davey.

Prosecution for 45 benefits cheats

6:40am Friday 10th July 2009

Forty-five benefits cheats, who wrongly claimed a whopping £75,000 between them, were detected and had legal action taken against them by Reigate and Banstead Council’s benefit fraud team, during the last financial year.

Lambeth school space crisis

6:50am Thursday 9th July 2009

A primary school space crisis has left every school in south Lambeth completely full for the fifth consecutive year.

Gang shooting in Woodside Green

Update: Woman quizzed over ex-boyfriend's death

9:50am Thursday 9th July 2009

Police are appealing for witnesses after a man was shot in South Norwood last night.

Attacker drinks on after assault in Wimbledon pub

Matthew Knowles required stitches after the attack

4:10pm Thursday 9th July 2009

A man assaulted in a Wimbledon pub was left to stand in a corner, dripping in blood, as his attacker was allowed to finish his drink.

Shotgun blast victim hid in shop from attackers

The Croydon shotgun attackers tried to shot out a CCTV camera

4:21pm Thursday 9th July 2009

The 21-year-old victim of a gangland shooting cowered in a kebab shop as a shotgun-wielding man hunted him down in South Norwood.

Would-be buyers flock to Cobham death house

2:40pm Thursday 9th July 2009

The Cobham house where a woman’s decomposed body was found in a wheelie bin just a month ago has seen a flurry of potential buyers visit, according to neighbours.

Twenty dogs seized in Lambeth dawn raids

STREAT Twenty dogs seized in Lambeth dawn raids

1:10pm Thursday 9th July 2009

Police officers seized 20 animals in dawn raids this morning as part of an operation to tackle dangerous dogs.


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