Neil Warnock has left Crystal Palace to become the new manager of Championship rivals Queens Park Rangers. Palace's administrators gave Rangers permission to speak to Warnock earlier today and the 61-year-old has signed a three-and-a-half year
From Community Correspondent Steve Wicks: Guides and their Leaders from Cheam, Worcester Park and Old Malden, marked Girlguiding UK’s Centenary World Thinking Day with a high-energy performing arts festival called One World One Beat. Across the UK
RESIDENTS of Skerne Road are increasingly concerned about the affordable housing and hotel development scheme. With the current scheme proposing the old Kingston PowerStation to be transformed into affordable housing and a hotel on Skerne Road, Kingston
By Community Correspondent Roshini Fernando For the first time in the school’s history, Lampton is sending a team to National Finals and that’s not all, right across all age groups Lampton’s basketball players are enjoying an unprecedented
From Community Correspondent Steve Wicks: Over 600 Wimbledon Division Guides, Brownies and Rainbows and guests celebrated the Centenary of Girlguiding UK with a special Thinking Day service at Sacred Heart Church on Edge Hill in Wimbledon. Among
From Community Correspondent Steve Wicks: Rainbows, Brownies, Guides and their Leaders from Richmond, Barnes, Kew and Mortlake recently celebrated the Centenary of Guiding with a special World Thinking Day service in Mortlake Parish church. This was
From Community Correspondent Steve Wicks: Rainbows, Brownies, Guides and their Leaders form Kingston and Malden and Surbiton Divisions recently celebrated their Centenary with a special World Thinking Day service in Kingston Parish Church.
From Community Correspondent Steve Wicks: The London Living Room was a splash of pink recently when the Chair of the London Assembly, Darren Johnson invited representatives of Guiding to a reception to celebrate their centenary. Members from all
By Community Correspondent Anjali Parshotam Hounslow Council has launched a £25,000 scheme known as the 10 promises to make residents “feel proud that you live and work in this borough”, ranging from keeping kids off the streets to improving the facilities
Sutton Schools U11s beat Hackney 1-0 in their Southern Counties Cup tie on Saturday. Sutton took a fifth-minute lead when Billy Morcombe headed home Ryan Healy’s corner. From then on, Sutton had to dig deep, but their defence was rarely doubled
Epsom Ladies got back to winning ways on Saturday with a 4-1 win over bottom side Rover Oxford in Women’s South Premier Division One. Fiona Bettesworth gave them a 10th-minute lead from a penalty corner and new player-coach Sue MacDonald, the former
Old Whitgiftians were narrow losers in a Surrey Shield match played on a rather waterlogged pitch at Motspur Park, writes Bob Schad. Both sides rose to the conditions for the 1pm kick with Old Blues scoring a try in the opening minutes.
Former Wimbledon champion Pat Cash expects Wimbledon tennis prodigy Laura Robson to mark the moment she stops growing by accelerating her rise towards senior success. The 16-year-old, who claimed the 2008 Junior Wimbledon crown, was defeated in the final
Hercules Wimbledon’s Liam White finished ninth out of more than 300 runners in the English national men’s U17 cross country championships at Roundhay Park, Leeds, on Saturday. White, who won the Surrey title the previous weekend, covered the testing
Two Collingwood runners ran the South Devon Coastal Marathon in cold and muddy conditions on Saturday. Dave Ross finished 10th in four hours, 24 minutes, with Mel Johnstone 90th, and 12th woman, in five hours, 43 minutes. Collingwood parkrun results
Olympic kayak champion Tim Brabants reckons the frustration of not being competitive at this year’s World Championships will be worth it providing he strikes gold in 2012. The Teddington-based 33-year-old star got back on the water last month
A 75-year-old man who fled the Nazis in the Second World War visited Saint Cecilia’s School last Wednesday to recount his experiences. More than 120 pupils listened as John Dobai told of his Jewish childhood in Budapest, Hungary, and his near
Harlequins RL's injury nightmare shows no signs of letting up with the news Ryan Esders faces up to six weeks on the sidelines with a broken hand. Esders went off during the 28-4 defeat to Hull on Friday night nursing a hand injury, and the
Crystal Palace youngster Kieran Djilali believes his loan spell at Chesterfield earlier this season made him a better player capable of performing in the Championship. The 19 year-old scored his first senior goal for the Eagles, in his first start for
Old Wimbledonians CC have kicked off their net sessions for the new season and are recruiting players for all levels. The club have five Saturday teams, with the first XI playing in Division Three of the Surrey Championship, and three Sunday social
A climber from New Malden has died in an avalanche at Glencoe in the Scottish Highlands. Northern Constabulary named Robert Pritchard, 37, as one of two men swept away on Wednesday. Mr Pritchard, and fellow climber Christopher Walker
Wimbledon probably should have emerged winners at London One South leaders Gravesend on Saturday, but finished off losing 20-15. They looked likely to claim a second big scalp in a fortnight when they led 12-10 at half-time, but a well-organised home
The new Hampton & Richmond Borough football academy will be hosting trial days for boys interested in becoming part of the first intake to the course at St Paul’s College Sunbury. Trials will take place on Wednesday, April 7, and Wednesday, April 14
Staines tightened their grip on top spot in London One North with an 18-5 victory at arch-rivals Ruislip on Saturday. The Hanworth side also had the added bonus of securing a place in the Middlesex Cup Final, a trophy they already hold. Staines
Tadworth Athletics Club’s Geoff Newton was the men’s over-60 winner at Sunday’s Tunbridge Wells Half-Marathon. He finished a superb 86th out of 1,800 runners in one hour, 30 minutes, 48 seconds. Clubmate Paul O’Callaghan finished 825th out of 1,428 runners
Sutton Runners’ Mark Wingham finished 103rd in Sunday’s Tunbridge Wells Half Marathon, clocking one hour, 31 minutes, 33 seconds. Meanwhile, 10 Sutton Runners took part in Saturday’s Banstead Woods 5km parkrun. Sutton finishers: 3 Steven Barber 18.52
AFC Rosehill FC are planning a charity match in aid of the Myeloma UK Cancer Fund and Cancer Research UK. The mark the farewell of the club’s U16s team as they venture into men’s football, the boys will face a team made up of coaching staff and volunteers
Nearly a quarter of Merton charities have fallen behind with their paperwork and risk alienating their donors as result, the Charity Commission has said. Of the 232 charities in Merton required to submit account documents to the Commission
Carshalton’s Tony Owen reckons he has plenty more still to offer after extending the unbeaten start to his career to six fights on Saturday. Lightweight Owen stopped Gavin Deacon in the fifth round of their clash in Crawley, forcing the referee to step
Wimbledon Speedway host a testiimonial fundraising night for former skipper Buzz Burrows this Saturday (7-11pm). A serious racing accident at the end of last season left him with a number of broken ribs, a punctured lung that had to be drained of blood
Having been a success in Canada, jazz singer Tammy Weis made the brave leap to move to London and build a career this side of the pond. It was a leap worth taking, for she has gone on to gain a growing reputation on the jazz scene here, highlighted
London Scottish full-back Frankie Neale scored a first-half hat-trick as England Counties pipped an AIB Ireland Club XV in an eight-try thriller at Stourton Park, Stourbridge. England raced into a 26-3 half-time lead, but Esher’s Sam Ulph’s three
With New Art Club bringing its new show, This Is Now, to Croydon Clocktower next Wednesday, GRAHAM MOODY went to Soho Theatre to check it out and could barely stop laughing. New Art Club's Tom Roden and Pete Shenton have been described as the Reeves
Mandinga Arts has been bringing a taste of Rio de Janeiro to the streets of Streatham. The company, which specialises in carnival arts, held a workshop in the craft in February. The group created masks and costumes and worked on carnival
The Pearly King of Wandsworth has hung up his buttons for the last time after decades of service to the borough. Edward Larkin, 90, retired last week having raised more £150,000 for charity over the past 30 years. In a last act of goodwill
The world’s leading airline operators today dealt a body blow to the Mayor of London over plans to replace Heathrow with a new airport in the Thames Estuary. A £40bn six-runway airport built on reclaimed land dubbed “Boris Island” would bury
Former John Fisher schoolboy Dominic Lespierre was a member of the Guyana team who reached the quarter-final of the Bowl competition at the IRB Sevens in Las Vegas. Lespierre scored a try in a 12-12 draw with France and went over again against the
Community groups, celebrities, politicians and residents gathered together on Saturday with one goal in mind - Celebrating Streatham. The event, held at Dunraven school, was organised to mark the retirement of Streatham MP Keith Hill by bringing
Florent Rossigneaux is elated Rosslyn Park have their future in their own hands after a nail-biting win at promotion rivals Ealing last weekend. Park’s 9-8 triumph, thanks to a last-gasp missed conversion by the home side, sees Rossigneaux’
A murder trial heard how a homeowner killed one man and injured another after they broke into his house armed with a pistol. Samuel Quamina, 49, is charged with the murder of 24-year-old Norbury man Perry Nelson Jr after what the defence called
A theatre group is taking a dramatic approach to road safety by teaching Surrey schoolchildren to steer clear of danger. Actors from Theatre in Education will be visiting schools throughout the county in a bid to cut down child pedestrian casualties
Three shops in Lambeth were caught selling cigarettes or alcohol to underage customers during a sting operation by police and trading standards officers. Five volunteer test purchasers aged between 14 and 15 were sent in to 76 shops across
Wimbledon-based James Feaver, the British number 21, competes at the Aegon Pro Series $15K Futures event in Tipton next week. The 23-year-old tennis star will compete in the prestigious international tennis tournament which attracts top players from
Alan Dowson has brushed off talk of a slump at Kingsmeadow by insisting his Kingstonian side were always likely to have a dip in form. Saturday’s disappointing 1-0 defeat at Tonbridge Angels, in a game that saw two Kingstonian players red-carded, made
Ealing 8 Rosslyn Park 9 In a dramatic end to a full-blooded battle in the Ealing mud, Ben Ward’s attempt to convert Phil Chesters’ last-gasp try for Ealing passed outside the far post and Rosslyn Park’s players leapt for joy. They could claim
Staines Town’s 10-match unbeaten run came to an end with a home defeat by Eastleigh. But they thought they had salvaged a point six minutes into stoppage time when Scott Taylor lashed in a volley, only for a raised linesman’s flag to spoil the celebration
Parents campaigning to save 15 desperately needed junior school places have lost their fight. Cheam Park Farm Junior School governors voted with a majority of 10:1 to stand by their decision to admit 90 children instead of 105, ignoring advice
RAMSGATE 1 METROPOLITAN POLICE 1 Metropolitan Police remain undefeated in their past seven matches but they really should have snatched an important three Ryman Division One South points in stoppage time with the opportunities they created in Kent
Brian McDermott insists he will not be tempted to dip into the loan market despite the stand-off crisis besetting his Harlequins RL side. With Luke Dorn set for another two months on the sideline with his shoulder injury and fellow number six Luke Gale
England Women overcame horrendous rain and muddy conditions to beat Ireland 22-5 at Esher on Sunday. Although the conditions dictated the run of play, England managed an impressive four tries on Sunday to make it three wins out of three in their quest
England Counties 29 AIB Ireland Club XV 25 ENGLAND COUNTIES survived a second-half fightback to record their first victory over an AIB Ireland Club XV. In a eight-try thriller at Stourbridge's Stourton Park, the Counties scored their
Richmond can count themselves unlucky not to have gained more than the two bonus points against a strong Clifton side on Saturday. Missing skipper Henry Head, Richmond were led for the day by Tom George who put his normal 100 per cent into the captaincy
An England U20 side including Harlequins’ Charlie Matthews went down to a 25-10 defeat by Ireland at Kingsholm on Friday. They dominated territory and had the opposing forwards on the rack for long spells but Ireland hung on gamely, stole the ball
Colliers Wood United 0 Chertsey Town 3 Chertsey Town’s weekend journey for their Combined Counties League match at lowly Colliers Wood United took them to Cobham’s ground on a Friday evening because the continual wet weather has put Woods' ground temporarily
Three consecutive away defeats have put a small dent in Kingstonian's play-off hopes and they will be kicking themseves they didn't get something from this Ryman Premier Leage clash at Longmead Stadium. Angels striker Paul Booth crowned his
Roy Hodgson is hoping for a March to remember as Fulham continue their unexpected progress on three fronts. An unbeaten run of eight games through the month of February has left the Cottagers facing a mouth-watering FA Cup Quarter-Final against Tottenham
Carshalton Athletic 0 Canvey Island 0 After three Ryman League Premier Division defeats on the spin, a point in any circumstances would have been welcome, but this one was the cause for some modest congratulations being achieved with only
Hampstead & Westminster Ladies 3 Surbiton Ladies 2 Surbiton Ladies clinched promotion to the England Hockey League on Saturday, but not as they intended, losing their first South Clubs’ Women’s Hockey League match in almost two years at the same time
by David Fitzpatrick Sanderstead celebrated promotion to Surrey Division One on Saturday as they comfortably beat Woking III's 4-1. The win puts them 13 points ahead of Walton & Weybridge with only three games to play and secures a top two spot, although
Chelsea star Didier Drogba has been told to pay £565 and given three penalty points at Kingston Magistrates' Court this morning after admitting driving along the A3 near Hook without a licence and insurance. Wearing jeans, a stripy blue
By community correspondent Jenny Bartlett The Stones Road pond in the centre of Epsom is a Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI). It is home to the great crested newts which are a protected species under British and European law.
Julian Speroni: Made a number of comfortable saves to keep Palace in the game though his kicking was a bit suspect again. 7 Nathaniel Clyne: Started off at right back and did well defensively and when he got forward. Switched to left back in the second
10.08.1951-23.02.2007 The years are slowly passing and we miss you so much The memories will stay with us forever, I love you, we love you. You were my life; you were part of our life. One day we will be together. Loving you forever, Terri. Loving
Kingston town centre is cleaner, safer and more vibrant, thanks to Kingston Council and town centre management, the Audit Commission has declared. The council gained praise from the government watchdog, in a national report which gave a
Firefighters were called to a suspected arson attack at midnight in Streatham last night. Three engines from Tooting and Norbury stations rushed to a block of flats in Gracefield Road. A fire had been started in one of the corridors outside the door
A man who threatened and took money off two teenagers on a train between Victoria and Clapham Junction was jailed for 36 months last week. Urim Shalah, 23, of Mitcham Road, Croydon, was sentenced at Southwark Crown Court on Monday, February
06/01/1915 - 18/02/2010 Ex Mayor of Stoke Newington & Hackney Freeman of the City of London Died peacefully in Kingston Hospital, Kingston upon Thames. He will be sadly missed by his Daughter & Son-in-law, Karen & Ken, His Grand-Children Greg
Billy Smith fears that Tooting & Mitcham may have been found out at the Ryman Premier level as the Terrors’ hopes of making the play-offs took a major knock last weekend. A 2-0 home defeat to Hendon saw Tooting slide to eighth in the table and extended
Friend to many and stalwart of Knights Youth Centre died on 15th February. A Celebration Service will be held at Streatham Baptist Church (Lewin) Friday 26th February 2.00pm
MISSING CAT Since 14.2.2010 from the garden of property near Tooting Broadway. Look into your sheds and garages. Reward offered if found. Tel: 07946 163853
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JAMES HALL is 18 on 25.2.2010Congratulations! Love Mum, Dad, Daisy, Dorothy and Thomas xxxxx
Please check sheds etc for CLEO, on left, missing from North Cheam on 9th February. Tel: 077628 46644 with any information
Lefi Ganderson the legendary goat-boy of Seething Wells was spotted yesterday as Surbiton people celebrated the made-up myth with dance, drama and song. Costumed goat-boy followers, a mechanical fish, an eight-foot high stilt walking bride
More than 100 teenagers participated in a two-on-two basketball tournament at Ernest Bevin College in Tooting last Thursday. The new style of playing, which requires just two people in each team, was invented by local sports enthusiast Joseph
Businesses and residents are being warned about a lengthy road closure for essential gas mains replacement. Southern Gas Networks (SGN) will close the High Street to traffic between Mulgrave Road and the junction with Sutton Court Road for
Brentford boss Andy Scott reckons Charlie MacDonald’s stock has risen ten-fold during his stay at Griffin Park and the challenge is finding someone to play alongside him. The 29-year-old scored his 13th and 14th goals of the season in Tuesday’s 3-2
Worcester Park racer Howard Fuller reckons podium finishes are within his grasp in his second season on the Formula Palmer Audi Championship circuit this summer. The 17-year-old, one of the youngest in the series, broke into the top ten on
Kingston Council took itself to an independent tribunal because of a £60 parking ticket issued to the driver of a council-hired car. The vehicle was on long-term hire to Kingston Council when it was caught by a parking warden on single yellow
Growing budget pressures will not derail Merton’s sixth form revolution, the council has promised. Councillor Debbie Shears, Merton Council’s cabinet member for children’s services, has pledged not to drop a long term plan to replace the
A five-year-old Jack Russell who ran away after being attacked by an Alsatian has been reunited with her family. Heidi Sanderson carried out a six-day search for Twiggy who ran away after being attacked on Shirley Hills. Heidi Sanderson
A health chief whose son was left fighting for his life as a baby when he contracted meningitis. Samantha Jones’ baby twins, Leo and Ellie, were just seven weeks old, when Leo contracted meningitis and was left fighting for his life.
Parents from across Croydon demanded they be given a voice as they descended upon Parliament to lobby against funding cuts to family support. The group handed in a manifesto on behalf of charity Parentline Plus(PLP), which called for family
A new primary school has been added to the plans for rejuvenating Surbiton Hospital. NHS Kingston and Kingston Council have drawn up a pre-planning agreement for the build, which will see the hospital demolished and rebuilt as a polyclinic
NHS Wandsworth has been criticised by the borough’s health watchdog after it watered down-plans for health services in Battersea. Plans for a new super surgery, which would have contained several GPs and out-patient services under one roof,
Kingston Hospital has been forced to spend £800,000 for IT support “floorwalkers” as NHS staff struggle to come to grips with a troubled computerised records system. Delays in implementing the £12.7bn national Care Records Service (CRS)
Illegal gates closing off Kingston’s richest and most famous residents are set to be ripped down by Kingston Council, ending a two-year residential rift. An enforcement order deadline has expired for Coombe Park ltd, an association of affluent
The six walkers were unperturbed by the cold, and dressed up warm to head down to Hersham Riverside Park. Councillor Jan Fuller said: “Hersham Centre for Retired People already has a thriving walking group and I hope that new recruits will
The Elmbridge Women in Business group will hold its next meeting on Tuesday, March 9, where delegates will learn how to make their website appear on page one of Google searches without paying for advertising. This will be just one of the
By Community Correspondent Aakash Balani. Felt lonely on the 14th of February? Tried hard not to look at the date that day? Well, if you did then the odds are that you celebrated 16th February with great gusto. Because 16th February was Pancake
By Community Correspondent Sofia Popov The sight is seen on most Friday and Saturday nights in local high streets, drunken individuals shouting and fussing infused with too much alcohol. By the time of early morning, many of these individuals
