The funeral of former heavyweight boxer James Oyebola will be held in Chiswick on Monday, September 10. The 47-year-old Commonwealth Games medallist was killed after being shot in the head and leg at London nightclub Chateau 6 on July 23. He was taken
A mum who carried out a "frenzied" knife attack on a teenage girl during a tram ride has failed in an appeal against her potentially life-long sentence. Sandra Jean Bell, 44, of Wingate Crescent, Croydon, attacked the 14-year-old with a kitchen knife
A man was left with a broken nose and five fractures to his cheek after being hit in the face with a stiletto heel. Sam Lewis, 24, of Preston Road, Wimbledon, was sat on a bench near a nightclub in Sidmouth, Devon, when he was attacked at around 3am
Flying Squad officers are searching for a suspected armed robber who fled an off license empty handed after the manager locked himself in a storeroom. Two men believed to have been armed with a long bladed knife and a black automatic handgun entered
The gloves are off, the fighters are in the ring and the battle is about to commence as two Croydon acts go head to head for a coveted Mobo award. Four Kornerz, a band of four brothers from New Addington, is battling Thornton Heath rapper Jahaziel for
A man has been killed after being hit by a train at Barnes Bridge station. It is not clear whether the man, who has not yet been identified, jumped or fell onto the track at the station. The incident occurred at around 2.20pm, just as the train pulled
Heard the one about a horse that walks into a bar and the barman says, why the long face? What about the one where a horse walks into a bar, and the barman says, "packet of cheese crisps?" If you are a regular drinker at the Woodman pub in Woodmansterne
Richmond cruised to a 48-8 success at South West One side Bournemouth to make an ideal preparation for the start of their London One season at home to Civil Service tomorrow (3pm). The match was over as a contest by half-time as Richmond raced into a
London Scottish making their return to the national league's for the first time in nine years saw off fellow new boys Luton in convincing fashion at the Athletic Ground on Saturday, writes Nick Evans. Fielding several new signings, Scottish powered
Andrew Pelling's Croydon Central seat is at risk from Tory plans to raise air travel taxes, according to a poll. FlyingMatters, a coalition of business groups, trade unions, tourism groups and the aviation industry, said the strongest opposition to
Bumbling Boris Johnson's bid to become the next Mayor of London stumbled when he was asked what he knew about Croydon. The gaff-prone MP's election battle bus rolled into Purley today for the first leg of a campaign which will take in every borough
Premier Division Surbiton lost a second successive pre-season practice game to a side from National South Division when they went down 5-3 to Indian Gymkhana at Sugden Road on Saturday, the club's training day. Surbiton, who had also lost two friendlies
Some great catches on our rivers this week and, with good sport reported from many stillwaters, there has never been a better time to get the rods out, writes Ray Robson. Frank Blair has not had a mention in my column for a few years, but he got back
Epsom golfer Henry Smart has celebrated landing a sporting scholarship at an American university by helping England lift the U18 Home Internationals title. The 18-year-old Walton Heath Golf Club member sealed the overall victory by winning his final
Drivers in the south of the borough had a nightmare 24 hours when traffic lights at a major junction blacked out. The fault, caused by a failure of the mains electricity supply, left traffic signals at the Godstone Road and Downscourt Road junction
Tram passengers are facing four days of misery with the closure of the system's central loop. Improvements being made to the track in Tamworth Road and Waddon New Road mean no trams will be running between East Croydon and Reeves Corner. Stops at
Zippo's Circus, London's largest touring circus, will be putting smiles of the faces of hundreds of disadvantaged children at a one-off beneficiary performance for hundreds of children that Capital 95.8's Help a London Child help support at Peckham Rye
A woman has admitted stealing thousands of pounds from a church's social club. Heartless Lisa Lenehan owned up to taking £2,372 from St Mary's Church Social Club in Wellesley Road. She was bailed at Croydon Crown Court and is due to be sentenced
An alcoholic jockey has begged magistrates not to tag him - because he would not be able to get his riding boots on to compete in races. Robert Miles, 26, from Kingscroft Road, Banstead, was at Redhill Magistrates' Court yesterday after assaulting
Walton Casuals boss Kim Harris is hoping his luck takes a turn for the better after an injury crisis and broken floodlight pylon left his side still looking for their first win of the season. The Stags were without four key players and forced to play
A man has died after being hit by a car on the Kingston bypass last night. The pedestrian in his early 50s was rushed by ambulance to Kingston Hospital but died from his injuries. The incident happened on the A309 by Hinchley Wood fire station around
The UK is slowly catching onto a green roof movement that has taken cities such as New York, Tokyo, Hamburg and Chicago by storm, why? Because it makes so much sense! The host of economical and aesthetic benefits a green roof offers, as well as a surprisingly
Dulwich Hamlet 2 Three Bridges 0 Dulwich made it safely through the preliminary round of the FA Cup, though Three Bridges, riding high in the Sussex County League, made sure it was not an easy passage to a home tie with Deal on the next step to Wembley
Surbiton-based 26.2 Road Runners finished runners-up behind Reading Road Runners in the Stockley Park five-mile road race on Sunday. Stragglers positions: 7 Joe Chang (30:04), 9 Dave Wilson, 13 David Maher, 18 Andrew Pengelly. Women: 3 Helena Robey (
Jo Pavey's effort of finishing just outside the medals in the 10,000m six days previously took its toll in the 5,000m final. The Teddington distance runner settled for ninth place in 15 minutes 4.77 seconds, a season's best by more than seven seconds
Records tumbled at the Veterans' Athletic Club track and field championships at Kingsmeadow Stadium. As well as winning the over-35 discus with a championship-best 31.03m, Kingston & Polytechnic's Camilla Thrush also won the shot (10.64m), hammer (37.60m
Teddington-based Australian Craig Mottram, one of the favourites for Sunday's 5,000m final at the IAAF World Championships in Osaka, has been forced to take stock after a disappointing 12th-place finish. In the lead-up to the competition, the 27-year-old
John Daniell's injury-jinxed season finally came good on Saturday as his unbeaten 57 helped Park secure their first winning draw of the season at Warlingham on Saturday, writes Oli Burley. The spinning all-rounder, who has taken 90 wickets over
Carshalton Athletic are looking for players to complete their U12 squad to play in the Tandridge Youth League. Home matches will be played next to the main stadium on Colston Avenue and junior section players get the chance to be ball boys at first team
Substitute Jerson dos Santos scored twice as Sutton United's youth team won 3-0 at Mole Valley Predators last Thursday. Bentley Graham got Sutton's other goal to make it two Southern Youth League wins out of two.
Carshalton Athletic will visit Thamesmead Town in the first qualifying round of the FA Cup on Saturday, September 15. Town beat Whitstable Town 3-1 in on Saturday to secure the tie. Meanwhile, the Robins have been drawn at home to Corinthian Casuals
Former Richmond resident Mara Yamauchi finished a fine ninth in Sunday's women's marathon final at the IAAF World Championships. Yamauchi, 34, who lives with her Japanese husband in Tokyo, made a bold bid for glory from the outset. She led after 30km
Sutton & Epsom RFC back in London Division 1 after two seasons came successfully through a tough test on Saturday when they took on the Esher 2nd team and came away winners. Sutton's forwards were particularly impressive dominating the visitors in both
Sutton-based Andy Turner believes he gave himself plenty to work with ahead of next year's Olympics in Beijing despite missing out on a place in the the 110m hurdles final in Osaka. After clocking a lifetime best 13.27 in his first round heat - lifting
Staines Town 0 Wealdstone 1 After the high of last Friday, Staines came down to earth with a bump at Wheatsheaf Park on a cool Tuesday evening. Fielding an unchanged eleven, Steve Cordery's squad fell to their first defeat of the season to unfancied
Harlequins number eight Nick Easter has missed out on a starting birth for England's opening World Cup clash with the USA on Saturday, a month after scoring four tries against Wales at Twickenham. The 29-year-old has paid the price for a low-key performance
Harlequins RL second row Lee Hopkins believes this season's injury crisis may have cost them a shot at the Super League play-offs, but could set them up for a crack at glory in 2008. Quins succumbed 32-10 to defending champions St Helens at Knowsley
Harlequins are set to start the season without a recognised hooker after Tani Fuga was called up to the Manu Samoa World Cup squad this week. The 34-year-old was one of three players drafted in by Samoa - one of England's group opponents in France -
How the Dons rated against Boreham Wood. Andy Little - Should have dealt with Ofori's opener. Is his place under threat? 5. Luke Garrard - His usual energetic self - but should tried to get forward a little more. 6. Mike Haswell - Not his usual
Tooting & Mitcham boss Billy Smith has blasted his players for showing a lack of respect for the FA Cup after his side crashed out against Cray Wanderers on Saturday. Smith's side slumped to their first defeat of the season against the Kent side, despite
Merton began their 50th anniversary celebrations with a 62-5 win over Old Beccehamians in a replica of their first match in 1957, writes Jack Canniff. With Head Coach Dave Burford away on holiday, assistant Ciaan Badenhorst took charge of the squad,
Surrey spinner Chris Schofield bagged his first five-wicket County Championship haul in eight years to help ease his side's relegation fears and give him the perfect fillip ahead of the inaugural Twenty20 world championship. The 28-year-old Balham-based
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Boss Ian Hazel believes the best is yet to come from Ross Montague, whose double strike kick-started United's season on Saturday. Montague struck twice as United notched their first Blue Square South victory of the season at the sixth attempt with a
AFC Wimbledon boss Terry Brown has hinted he could delve into the transfer market in a bid to solve his side's goalscoring problems after the Dons' 1-0 defeat at Boreham Wood on Tuesday. Eugene Ofori's first-half header was enough to consign the Dons
Hercules Wimbledon's double British Masters champion Geoff Walcott is challenging for world honours when he competes in the World Masters track and field championships which started in Riccione, Italy, on Tuesday. Walcott, the British over-55 200m
An MEP jailed for nine months after being found guilty of fraudulently obtaining more than £65,000 will be able to keep his seat in Europe. Ashley Mote, 71, a Member of European Parliament (MEP) for Spelthorne and Runnymede, was sentenced at Portsmouth
Carshalton Athletic boss Dave Garland has blasted Simon Cooper and Moses Spencer after the duo booked holidays ruling them out of two games. Cooper and Spencer featured in Saturday's 4-1 defeat at the hands of Horsham, but missed last night's clash with
Corinthian Casuals manager Brian Adamson blamed the referee's refusal to award an injury-time penalty to his captain Chris Horwood's dismissal in a 2-1 FA Cup defeat to Deal Town on Saturday. And he shared his players' fury about the incident, which
Hampton & Richmond Borough boss Alan Devonshire has backed strikers Ian Hodges and Lawrence Yaku to recapture the form that fired his side to Ryman League Premier Division glory last season. The pair terrorised defences to the tune of 42 goals last year
AFC Wimbledon left-back Michael Haswell has revealed his number one priority over the summer was to remain a Dons player. Dave Anderson's sacking after his failure to guide the Dons into the Blue Square South last season and Terry Brown's subsequent
Carshalton Athletic 0 Harlow Town 2 Carshalton Athletic's run of defeats was extended to a third game with a demoralising defeat home defeat against newly promoted Harlow Town. The game was a personal nightmare for the Robins' young goalkeeper Aaron
Despite winning their penultimate game by beating vistors Chertsey by 75 runs on Saturday, Ashford Cricket Club's faint promotion hopes vanished due to other results going against them and they now face another season in Division Four. Third-placed Ashford
A Putney pub once known for drug dealers and violence has been awarded Greater London Pub of the Year. The Bricklayer's Arms in Waterman Street beat thousands of pubs across the capital to scoop the prize in the Campaign for Real Ale (CAMRA)'s annual
Kingstonian boss Alan Dowson has made the first steps in overhauling his squad four games into the new league season after Saturday's 2-1 FA Cup preliminary round exit at Eastbourne Town. The 37-year-old Geordie was this week planning a loan signing
Staines & Laleham's home defeat to Sinjuns Grammarians last weekend leaves them needing to beat bottom side Ripley at home this Saturday - and hoping that Addiscombe don't win - to avoid relegation. Skipper Brett Archer said: "All we can do is win and
Esher director of rugby Mike Schmid is hoping an elusive bonus point does not come back to haunt his side after Saturday's 25-16 opening day defeat to Plymouth Albion. A packed Pillar Data Arena watched the visitors take advantage of some individual
Teddington's Mo Farah insists the lessons taught in Japan will be valuable come next year's big examination, the Beijing Olympics, writes James Toney. The 24-year-old finished sixth in Sunday's 5,000m World Championships final, but claimed the scalps
London mayoral hopeful Boris Johnson will be parking his battle bus in Purley later today. The Tory MP for Henley officially launched his campaign to win his party's nomination as their candidate in the mayoral election on Monday. As part of his
Welsh international Rhoys Wiggins is ready to put his injury nightmare behind him and challenge for a place in Crystal Palace's first team. More than 12 months after being called into the full Wales squad for a World Cup warm-up against Trinidad & Tobago
Four babies and their mums are being offered tuberculosis screening after coming into contact with a woman at Mayday Hospital who was later diagnosed with the infectious disease. The women and children affected were on Mary ward between April 2 and
A suspected drink driver, who refused to stop for police, was finally caught after he smashed into a row of parked cars in Battersea. Police spotted a silver Mazda speeding along Balham Hill towards Clapham South Tube Station, just before 4am on Saturday
Amy Winehouse may not have won but she stole the show with her performance at last night's Mercury Music Prize ceremony. It was the first time the troubled singer has performed live since pulling out of a number of shows earlier this summer to go into
The mum of Sally Anne Bowman has penned an emotional poem to her daughter in the week she would have celebrated her 20th birthday. Linda Bowman paid tribute to her daughter who was stabbed to death outside her house days after her 18th birthday in
Neil Warnock has distanced himself from reports that he is about to take Peter Taylor's job as Crystal Palace boss. Newspaper claims that he was about to be replaced have understandably upset Taylor. But the manager has received assurances from chairman
The Tube strike which brought the network to a standstill has been suspended but passengers are being warned to expect severe delays today. The RMT union suspended its 72-hour strike late last night after nine hours of talks between Transport for London
