Diabetes UK is due to visit Croydon at the end of the month, offering face-to-face advice to people with the condition, their families and friends. The charity will be in High Street on Thursday September 27 and 28 with a mobile unit. They will be talking
An address in north Croydon was among a number of residential properties being searched by police as part of a massive anti-terror inquiry. The home was one of 17 addresses across the capital being searched after the arrests of 14 men by the Met's anti-terror
Croydon Council is no longer clamping vehicles parked illegally in the borough's streets - they are being removed and taken to the pound instead in a move that is costing drivers hundreds of thousands of pounds a year. Vehicles lifted from the streets
CROYDON HF RAMBLING CLUB: Walks every Sunday, meet at East Croydon Railway Station, 9.30am for travel by train or car. Rambles are 10-12 miles in length with lunch stop at a pub. Enjoy the fresh air, explore your local countryside and meet new people.
POETS ANONYMOUS: Poetry in the Primary Room, United Reformed Church, Addiscombe Grove, Croydon. Bring your poetry to read and share, September 9. 8645 9956. POETS ANONYMOUS: Poetry at the Dog and Bull, Surrey Street, Croydon. 8645 9956. TEA DANCE:
FAIRFIELD: The Maple Room, Park Lane, Croydon. Different Strokes by Ian Hamilton, until September 9. Kaleidoscope Art Exhibition - Cocktail, September 11 - 23. CROYDON WRITERS' CIRCLE: Croydon Clocktower, Katherine Street, Croydon. Every 2nd Monday
SCREAMING BLUE MURDER COMEDY CLUB: Dorking Halls, Reigate Road, Dorking. 01306 881717. UP FRONT COMEDY CLUB: Croydon Clocktower, Katharine Street, Croydon. SWG: Sisters Wid Gags, September 7. 8253 1030. WAREHOUSE THEATRE: Dingwall Road, Croydon. 8680
ASHCROFT THEATRE: The Fairfield, Park Lane, Croydon. Tony Benn, September 6. 8688 9291. CONCERT HALL: The Fairfield, Park Lane, Croydon. An Audience with Colin Fry, September 8. WAREHOUSE THEATRE: Dingwall Road, Croydon. 8680 4060. CROYDON CLOCKTOWER
FAIRFIELD CONCERT HALL: Park Lane, Croydon. Lunchtime Concert: Crispian Steele-Perkins - Trumpet, Ian Le Grice - Organ, September 12. 8688 9291 ASHCROFT THEATRE: Park Lane, Croydon. Voices from Zion, September 9. THE CARTOON: 179/183 London Road, Croydon
Newlywed Steve Brookstein has just got back from his honeymoon in Rome when we speak, after marrying his long-term girlfriend two weeks ago. Yet I still do not escape the trademark flirtation which made him so memorable on the X Factor two years ago.
The days may be getting shorter but the comedy will be lighting up the evenings at the Esporta Health Club in Croydon this month. On Saturday, September 23 the club will be hosting three of the top acts from the UK Comedy Circuit, specially selected
The smash-hit pheno-menon that is The Vagina Monologues comes to Fairfield, Croydon, on Thursday, September 21, at 7.45pm. The ultimate girl's night out, sex has never been funnier or more poignant than in this collection of highly original stories gathered
A noisy neighbour has been fined £1,000 and ordered to pay Elmbridge Council £1,500. Anthony Oakley, 37, of Vicarage Fields, Walton, was convicted at Staines Magistrates Court on Wednesday, August 23 of breaching a noise abatement order. Elmbridge Council
Croydon Athletic 4 Arundel 2 Croydon Athletic safely made their way through the first of the FA Cup preliminary rounds on Saturday with a comfortable win over Sussex County league side Arundel, writes Rob Cavallini. The Rams did not have it all their
Croydon FC chairman Dickson Gill's tenure as manager got off to the best possible start with two wins out of his first two games in charge. The Trams parted company with first team manager Russell Harmsworth and his assistant Mark Hudson last Friday
Old Whitgiftians 241 Old Mid-Whitgiftians 155-7 Stewart Sales hit an unbeaten 63 in semi-darkness as Old Mid-Whitgiftians sealed the Surrey Championship Division Two title by narrowly securing a winning draw against Old Whitgiftians on Saturday.
Addiscombe 139-5 Carshalton and Croygas 138 Addiscombe finished their Surrey Championship Division Five season with a win against Carshalton and Croygas on Saturday. After winning the toss, Addiscombe put the hosts into bat and Mohammed and Crowie
Purley John Fisher had a rewarding weekend as they won the Combined London Old Boys trophy for the second successive year. The event pitted them against KCS (lost 12-10), Paulines (won 27-0), Amplefordians (won 22-0) and Cobham (won 25-0). With Cobham
Croydon Schools' U12s rounded off a successful season for the borough sides when they pulled off a well-earned victory by 16 runs over South London Schools in the final of the Surrey Schools' Cricket Association's Nescafe Trophy. Croydon's man of the
Croydon Harriers' season has come to an end and they can be justifiably proud or their achievements. Pride of place must go to 19-year-old 400m star Martyn Rooney, who rides highest at the head of the World Junior rankings with his UK U20 record run
So the wait for a big money striker signing has come to an end with the arrival of Shefki Kuqi from Blackburn in a £2.5million deal. He may not have been the name you were expecting and perhaps the price tag was a little pricey considering his age, but
This Saturday's match against Luton Town at Kenilworth Road has now sold out for Palace fans. If you do not have a ticket please do not make the journey to Bedfordshire. Palace legend Jim Cannon will be hosting next Tuesday's hospitality at Selhurst
It's taken over a year to sign him but Crystal Palace will hope Shefki Kuqi will be well worth the wait following his £2.5million move from Blackburn Rovers last Thursday. The 29-year-old put pen to paper on a three-year deal at Selhurst Park last Thursday
Peter Taylor's search for a centre back continues following unsuccessful attempts in the later stages of the transfer window. The Palace boss and director of football Bob Dowie were busy trying to sign players right up until the deadline and will now
Jon Macken's proposed loan move to Ipswich Town was finally completed on deadline day following the arrival of Shefki Kuqi. Palace boss Peter Taylor hoped to put Macken out on loan in the bid to give him a run of games following a spate of injuries,
The grandson of a man in this picture hopes Heritage readers will be able to tell him more about it. The picture appears to depict a group of day-trippers in Scarbrook Road, Croydon, and shows Baden Wright - grandfather of reader John Wright - sitting
Crystal Palace boss Peter Taylor is set to make another attempt to bring ex-Eagles wideman Julian Gray back to Selhurst Park after having a £1million bid turned down for the Birmingham City winger on deadline day. Taylor hoped to capitalise on Gray's
When Kris Stewart resigned as chairman of AFC Wimbledon yesterday, the fans' internet forums were awash with an equal number of well wishes and conspiracy theories. Why has he stepped down? Why now? Is his decision linked with other resignations at the
Leatherhead reached the first qualifying round of the FA Cup on Saturday - but neighbours Epsom & Ewell gave them a tougher game than they might have expected. Epsom were still seeking their first win of the season and with caretaker-manager Peter Augustine
Croydon has been included in plans to create a new London orbital rail line, the mayor of London announced yesterday. The new route will be known as London Overground and will operate on the North London Railway line from November next year when Transport
Hampton returned from the South Coast with a point from a 1-1 league draw at Worthing, a decent result to be sure but, given the first-half display, Beavers should have netted all three. Worthing, yet to win this season, coming back strongly in the second
Half-time on Sunday and Dulwich fans watching their heroes take on Three Bridges in the FA Cup Preliminary Round adjourned to the clubhouse bar, not for the usual larynx loosener but to pay tribute to one of their own. Now in his 50th season of supporting
FA Cup preliminary round Alea iacta est; the die is cast, proclaimed Caesar as he crossed the Rubicon to provoke a sea change in the history of the Roman Empire. Less portentous a moment this Sunday, except to those for whom Champion Hill is their
