John Buchan would probably be shocked at the way his classic The 39 Steps has been lampooned in the adaption by Patrick Barlow at the Criterion Theatre, but it is all good knockabout fun. The gripping story of how innocent murder suspect Richard Hannay
Cards and floral tributes have been left at Raynes Park station where a 24-year-old man was found dead on a bench on Monday. The man has been formally identified as Daniel Connell, of Worcester Park, in a post mortem held this afternoon. The cause of
CROYDON COUNCIL ROAD TRAFFIC REGULATION ACT 1984, AS AMENDED BY THE ROAD TRAFFIC ACT, 1991 NOTICE OF VARIATION OF ON-STREET AND OFF-STREET PARKING CHARGES IN THE CROYDON CONTROLLED PARKING ZONES AND OFF STREET PARKING PLACES NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN
Sutton Schools' Borough U11s had to show all their fighting spirit to overcome previously unbeaten Waltham Forest 2-1 in the London Shield semi-final on Saturday, writes Roger Easthope. In the opening minutes the visitors looked lively and the Sutton
A man has denied assaulting a 96-year-old pensioner on a tram. Steven Gordan, 43, pleaded not guilty to causing grievous bodily harm at Croydon Magistrates' Court today. Mr Gordan, of Academy Gardens, was charged after an alleged assault on a tram
CROYDON COUNCIL ROAD TRAFFIC REGULATION ACT, 1984, SECTION 14 AS AMENDED BY SECTION 4(7) OF SCHEDULE 5 TO THE LOCAL GOVERNMENT ACT 1985 AND THE ROAD TRAFFIC (TEMPORARY RESTRICTIONS) ACT 1991 BEDFORD PARK, BEDFORD PLACE, DINGWALL ROAD, LANSDOWNE ROAD
Recently, an obese eight-year-old boy narrowly avoided being taken into care, amid pledges from his mother that she would do her very best to bring her son's weight to a safer level. A similar story can be found on this very website, about a nine year
Disaster was narrowly averted on Tuesday night at the New Wimbledon Theatre when part of the set fell down with a crash during the performance of the Awful Egyptians, but the cast coped magnificently. The show, one of the latest in the Horrible Histories
A young Tory from Croydon is joining a former drug addict and a lap dancer in a BBC reality show. Clare Hilley will be joining 12 other contestants on the show Castaway where they will be cut-off from the rest of the world on an island near the Great
My second appointment with Kev! This time I bring my £90 Nike trainers with me. Within seconds they’ve been retired from the marathon and they’ve never even been within a mile of Blackheath. Kev suggest some new shoes and gets his magic hands to work
My second appointment with Kev! This time I bring my £90 Nike trainers with me. Within seconds they’ve been retired from the marathon and they’ve never even been within a mile of Blackheath. Kev suggest some new shoes and gets his magic hands to work
A woman in her 20s was left bruised and shocked after she was attacked from behind on her way home from Wallington train station. Sutton police said she may have been followed for 200 yards before she was grabbed in Ross Road, near the junction with
A £20,000 reward for information has been posted one year after an Upper Norwood couple were gunned down in their home. Jordan Jackson, 20, and his girlfriend of almost five years, Leyla Djemal-Northcott, 21, were murdered when two masked gunmen stormed
It all started with Anne Frank. I first heard the story of her short life during a school assembly at the age of five. Fascinated by the story, I begged my headmistress to let me see the book she had been reading from, so I could see the story for myself
Claygate's Sam Bird headed the time sheets on the second day of official testing at Snetterton, Norfolk, on Tuesday. In a field of 25 drivers, the 20-year-old posted a best time of 1.02.298 in a late run in the afternoon. "We had been testing different
Sutton & Epsom have been crowned London Two South champions with three matches to spare. Their 29-23 success at Maidstone on Saturday saw them make it 18 wins out of 19 to return to London Division One at the second attempt. They may consider it their
An £800,000 car which can reach speeds in excess of 250mph collided with a van and crashed into trees in Shepperton. The rare Bugatti Veyron, which can accelerate from 0 to 60mph in 2.5 seconds, collided with a Vauxhall Astra van in heavy rain on a 40mph
Leatherhead's push for promotion took a heavy knock with Saturday's 3-1 home defeat by Horsham YMCA. The Tanners started brightly enough. Within the first few minutes a long throw unsettled the visiting defence and an Iain Hendry header was just scrambled
CROYDON COUNCIL ROAD TRAFFIC REGULATION ACT, 1984, SECTION 14 AS AMENDED BY SECTION 4(7) OF SCHEDULE 5 TO THE LOCAL GOVERNMENT ACT 1985 AND THE ROAD TRAFFIC (TEMPORARY RESTRICTIONS) ACT 1991 ADDISCOMBE COURT ROAD, ALPHA ROAD, CEDAR ROAD, CHERRY ORCHARD
Who were AFC Wimbledon's star players in Tuesday night's 2-0 victory over Carshalton Athletic? Ratings Paul Smith - Replacing injured Andy Little and didn't let anyone down. Good handling all night. 7. Jermaine Darlington - Another impressive
AFC Wimbledon 2 Carshalton Athletic 0 AFC Wimbledon boss Dave Anderson admitted he was never at ease despite beating Carshalton Athletic to go back to the top of the table. A fortunate header from Roscoe Dsane and a curling effort from Steve Ferguson
Naomi Boyle, 25, from Old Lodge Lane in Purley, is fighting a late-night parking ticket she was given at 11.07pm. She was issued with the PCN on Friday, February 23, for having one or more wheels on a kerb in a quiet residential street with no yellow
Forty years ago Yorkshireman Neal Hattersley visited Kingston on his way down to Dover for a summer holiday. He was so impressed by the beauty of the light around Kingston Bridge that he now wants to bring an innovative art project to this stretch of
A disabled Thorton Heath pensioner has thanked the Croydon Guardian for helping him win his battle against a parking fine - issued because his blue badge was covered by snow. Colin Hayes, who has arthritic knees and needs a walking stick, woke up on
The council has made almost £5.5million since last April, from fines given to motorists who drove in bus lanes. Figures obtained under the Freedom of Information Act reveal £5,479,000 was made from penalties for bus lane and bus route contraventions
Local Wandsworth movers and shakers will be celebrating this Wednesday as many of our most well known residents have taken to the road on two wheels as part of the Wandsworth Cycling Campaign's Movers and Shakers' Project. With MPs Sadiq Khan and Justine
London's 13,500 hotels and restaurants can now identify significant cost and water savings in a new initiative launched this week by Envirowise, a Government-funded programme that offers free, practical, environmental advice to business. A range
E.ON, the company that owns Powergen, and the world's number one lighting specialist, Philips, have embarked on a national campaign with Morrisons to raise awareness of low energy light bulbs to help UK households drive down their energy consumption,
An angel for Croydon (Welcome, Croydon Guardian, February 28)? What an absurd idea. I hate to think how big the CO2 footprint would be in the manufacture of such a steel sculpture, but Croydon, being a green aware community, should perhaps think of something
The Chair of the London Energy Partnership, David Green, and the Chair of the London Energy Partnership Task Group, Michael King, today launched the Making Energy Service Companies (ESCOs) Work: Guidance and Advice on Setting Up and Delivering an Energy
Do we really need anything more than a sign saying welcome to Coulsdon' or welcome to London' (Welcome, Croydon Guardian, February 28)? After all, drivers who use our road know where they are. If the picture in the Croydon Guardian is representative
I also had a similar story to the man whose Ferrari was clamped (Ferrari furore at fine, Croydon Guardian, February 28). I pay £140 a quarter for a parking space behind my company in East Croydon. I have a permit which had fallen into the foot well and
I read in the Croydon Guardian the council plans to put up council tax in April. I am writing to tell you that it will cause a lot of hardship, especially to poor pensioners like myself. The problem is the large amount that is added every year. My monthly
I write about Rachel Morgan's letter (Letters, February 28) about Labour's record on council tax increases. Surely the most cynical act of all was the referendums, before the 2002 local election, which invited council taxpayers to say what level of increases
I was sitting reading a copy of the Croydon Guardian when I was jolted out of my chair. In two days the exhibition Sunshine in Suburbia at the Clocktower was to close. I could not believe it, to coin a phrase. It is quite amazing how time flies when
An international charity set up by a Croydon family has raised enough money to pay for research into a rare disease. Lisa and Tony Flint, from South Croydon, were instrumental in raising awareness for aromatic amino acid decarboxylase deficiency (AADC
AFC Wimbledon centre-back Antony Howard put his nose on the line as his side beat Carshalton Athletic to go back to the top of the Ryman Premier Division table. With injuries to central defenders Paul Lorraine, Lee Kersey and Steve Watson, Dons boss
Dulwich Hamlet hotshot Chris Dickson made a dream debut for Charlton Athletic reserves on Tuesday night with a brace inside the opening 15 minutes in his side's 5-1 win at Fulham. The 22-year-old scored with almost his first touch on nine minutes following
The death knell was sounded for Croydon's St George's Walk shopping centre as Government officials gave the go-ahead for it to be bulldozed last night. The 1960s retail arcade will make way for a new multi-million pound centre with a major department
I've noticed since the last local elections your letters page appears to have an almost addictive quality for Croydon's publicity hungry councillors. To be frank, I find all of them, from whatever party, a disingenuous bunch. However, I'm starting to
When the Conservative council was elected last May we promised to take early steps to make Croydon safer and tackle the disproportionate fear of crime among residents. Now that we've been able to sort out the financial mess we inherited, we've been able
I was interested to read the article about fly-tipping, car break-ins and poor lighting in Warren Road (Fly-typical round our way, Croydon Guardian, February 14). As a woman who commutes into London and then walks back along Warren Road after dark, I
The recent byelection was not, as you reported, the third byelection in Bensham Manor ward (although it was the third one I have contested there), it was in fact the eleventh byelection in the same ward since 1924. The fact that I only managed to get
The OWs were not over-awed in taking on London Three South-West leaders Chobham, writes Kevin Donovan. They kept up a gritty showing for more than an hour but a sudden surge, in typical Chobham style, took the home side to a deserved victory. The final
Dave Garland's game plan of packing the midfield and leaving Luke Fontana as the lone striker to deny AFC space and time on the ball unravelled as early as the twelth minute when the home team took the lead from their first corner of the game with Robins
Police arrested 22 suspected foreign criminals yesterday in an operation to extradite people wanted for crimes abroad. Among those arrested by officers from the Metropolitan Police's extradition unit were a 24-year-old man from Norwood wanted for robbery
Croydon's Primary Care Trust is slashing the number of minor operations it carries out in a bid to save money and resources. Surgical procedures such as hysterectomies, grommet installation and varicose vein treatments have been reduced by the PCT.
Around 200 people were evacuated from Streatham this morning following a fire and explosion at a set of workshops. Police say they were alerted to the fire at about 3.45am. According to London Fire Brigade (LFB) about 50 per cent of the first floor
A Norwood man accused of robbing brothels across south London claims he was trying to stop Albanian gangsters forcing a young Asian girl into prostitution. Kingston Crown Court heard last week that Daniel Fuller, 25, from Clifton Road, Norwood, was a
An 18-year-old who terrorised a Sutton neighbourhood over a two-year period has received an Anti Social Behaviour Order (ASBO). Nathan Savage, of St Alban's Grove, waged an ongoing campaign against a family in Peterborough Road. He is banned from
