Epsom Phab had a fantastic day on Sunday 13th June. The club were celebrating their 32nd birthday with an event called ‘PhabFest32’. This was the club’s very own festival held at the Linton Centre, Lintons Lane, Epsom. The sun shone and the rain stayed
By Community Correspondent: Hannah Davies Today there is severe starvation in Zimbabwe, exacerbated by years of economic mismanagement and a leader, Robert Mugabe, who continues to select corrupt, miscalculated and anti-white policies to meet his own
A Coombe Girls’ School teenager struck silver at the London Youth Games Regatta this month, after funding from Balfour Beatty and Capital FM Help a London Child allowed Active Kingston to take part in the water sports events. Harriet Axbey, 13, came
Streatham's young people will be hard hit by severe cuts to funding to tackle youth unemployment, the area's MP has warned. Chuka Umunna, attacked the coalition Government in parliament on Friday over its announcement it would be axeing the Future Jobs
A group of bilingual students left Croydon to take part in a joint project in France. Twenty girls and three teachers from Westwood Girls’ College for Languages and Arts set off for the College Diderot in the volcanic Puy de Dome area of France
About 4,000 north Kingston residents and businesses will have six weeks to comment on a draft planning brief for the new secondary school due to open on the North Kingston Centre site in 2015. Although a full planning application is not expect until
Swifts, swallows, house martins and sand martins flash by at astonishing speed below me as I stand on the Thames towpath at Kingston. From my elevated vantage point I look down on the super streamlined summer visitors and can easily distinguish the diagnostic
Cornwall-based Irish folk musician Sarah McQuaid performs at the Ram Folk Club on Friday, June 25. The singer and guitarist was born in Madrid and brought up in Chicago and uses the traditions of Spain, America, the UK and Ireland, in her music
A footballer who lost 15 years of memory in a brutal holiday attack has returned from a visit to the surgeons who saved his life on the two year anniversary of the assault. Robbie Hughes, of Wallington, travelled with his family to Greece to
Lambeth’s health services have been praised in a patient survey. Some 81 per cent of patients who used Lambeth Community Health (LCH) services rated their experience as good or excellent. Heather Blake, operations director for LCH, said: “These are
Grovelands Infant and Nursery School in Terrace Road, Walton, is holding a Hawaiian beach themed summer fayre on Saturday, June 26. It will be opened at noon by the school’s cheerleading group and singer stars choir. There will be a barbecue, tombolas
Homebuyers hoping to pick up an affordable home in Croydon have suffered a blow after the Government announced an end to ‘garden grabbing’ developments. About 2,000 new homes have been built on back gardens in the borough since 2003, with previous
Thursday saw the sweeping of the broom at Crystal Palace, as the new management team of George Burley and Dougie Freedman was announced. We also saw the first ever public appearance of CPFC2010 consortium directors Martin Long and Steve Parish
A man being attacked in Hersham Road, Walton, on Wednesday, June 16, was rescued when two have-a-go heroes intervened. The incident took place along the Halfway at about 5.20pm, when a 30-year-old man was accosted by two teenage boys, who began punching
Young gardeners are crossing their green fingers as they hope for success in a London-wide competition. Sacred Heart Primary School in Raynes Park has entered London in Bloom’s annual best school garden constest. A team of top horticultural
A Kingston vicar will race against the tide when he attempts to row 21 miles up hill, from Tower Bridge to Kingston Bridge, to raise money for a heritage project to transform All Saints Church in the town centre. Reverend Jonathan Wilkes was inspired
Firemen are hoping a new scheme will help them sharpen their responses to blazes on Mitcham Common this summer. Fire posts, which carry an identification number, have been installed near areas of long grass where fires are common. Anyone who
A thief described as “one of the cleverest woman criminals” was jailed for eight years in 1935 after a gruelling police hunt. Florence Page, 52, was wanted for five years while she targeted shopkeepers in every London borough, as well as towns all over
An intrepid pair of walkers put their best pair of walking shoes on to raise cash for the Alzheimer's Society. Jill Tame from Home Instead Senior Care’s Epsom office, along with her friend and neighbour Emma Lee, put their best feet forward for
Animal lovers will be able to meet Surrey Police's very own dog squad at an event tomorrow. The Surrey police dog trials will form part of a Family Day at Mount Browne, Guildford, which begins at 11am. A range of activities will be on offer to
A Tooting man who stabbed a 17-year-old boy after a racist clash in Manchester has been jailed for four-and-a-half years. Donald Williams, 33, of Crowborough Road, stabbed Michael Green in the abdomen on Easter Day 2009 in Wood Lane, Partington. The
