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  • 'El for Tel as Dons get stung

    AFC Wimbledon 1-2 Brentford Terry Brown admits he is still chasing another striker after a ghost from the Dons' Ryman League past came back to haunt them. Brentford striker Nathan Elder, a thorn in Wimbledon's side for Billericay Town in recent

  • Shipping container to make way for garden

    A communal garden that has instead been used as a builders yard will have to be cleared in Merton, the council has ordered. Councillors have ordered the removal of an industrial container on a new housing development which is being used to store building

  • Council orders demolition

    A new house that was meant to match existing properties in a terrace will have to come down after builders ignored the terms of their planning permission. The council had given permission for a three-storey house on empty land adjoining 177 Battersea

  • Police say Croydon getting safer despite 'litter attack'

    Croydon is "increasingly safer", senior police and the council say in a statement in the wake of attack on officers by a mob of youths. In the joint statement, acting borough commander Adrian Roberts and council chief executive John Rouse said: "This

  • Six convicted over fatal bashing

    Two men has been found guilty of murder and another two of manslaughter following a savage attack on a Mitcham laundry manager that left him dead. Sellathurai Balasingham died in November 2001 after being attacked as he arrived home from work in Huntington

  • Katie Price fans turn out in Croydon

    Hundreds of fans turned out to have Katie Price sign her new novel in Croydon. The glamour model, who is perhaps better known as Jordan, was at Waterstones in the Whitgift Centre from 11.30am. Young fans lined up to have their copies of Angel Uncovered

  • Police appeal after attempted abduction

    Police are appealing for witnesses following the attempted abduction of a 13-year-old girl in Croydon. The young girl was waiting at a bus stop in Homestead Way about 8.40am on Thursday when she noticed a small white pick-up truck coming from the

  • Update: Man appears charged with shooting murders

    A man has appeared in court charged with the murders of two men - including one from Croydon - who were shot dead in Southall six years ago. Mohamed Korneh, from Croydon, and Selorm Gbesemete, both 21, died from gunshot wounds in an incident at a nightclub