An eyewitness has described the moment a delivery man was run over by a thief who had stolen his van. Police have launched a murder investigation after Charles Bunyasi, 49, from Mitcham, suffered fatal injuries during the incident at about
Police have launched a murder investigation after a delivery man died yesterday after apparently being run over by a thief who had just stolen his van. Police believe Charles Bunyasi, 49, from Mitcham, was making a delivery to a house in Coulsdon
A community gardening project has won a Chelsea Flower Show award. The Lodge Lane Community Garden Project in New Addington scooped the prize for succesfully getting residents interested in gardening. It was one of 11 projects across the capital
Twenty firefighters battled a blaze at a mobile phone shop. The fire at the Vodafone mobile phone shop in Tooting High Street started shortly before 6pm yesterday. The fire is understood to have started in some rubbish behind the retail unit.
A partially deaf dancer from Hackbridge lost the final of a BBC talent show last night. Kirsty Swain, 29, missed out on her dream of being crowned the winner of BBC1 prime time show So You Think You Can Dance, finishing fourth. Her story
A motorist who seriously injured a pedestrian during a dangerous overtaking manoeuvre has been jailed for six months. Christian Tabis, 20, hit the 31-year-old woman as she tried to cross Church Road, Mitcham, on September 20 last year.
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Four people were taken to hospital this morning after a collision between two cars in Clapham. The collision took place in Cavendish Road at about 7.20am. A police spokesman said four people, understood to be the occupants of the cars
Olympic champion Jonathan Edwards will leap into Merton next week to fly the flag for the London games. The gold-medal winning triple jumper, who still hold's the disciplines world record, will raise a special host borough flag featuring the 2012 Olympic
Wartime bombing raids on a Kingston aircraft factory are part of a new biography about one of Britain’s best-loved children’s authors. Ursula Moray Williams already had nine of her 68 books under her belt when she married Flight Lieutenant Peter John
A tattooed thug punched a man and smashed a bottle over his head in an early morning attack after being refused a cigarette. Police said the 27-year-old needed stitches after being assaulted outside a bar in High Street, Croydon at about 2am
Murals celebrating Sutton’s links with its continental twin towns are to get a new lease of life. Looking out from windows facing the High Street’s Cock and Bull pub, the brightly-coloured murals depict the borough alongside its four twin towns
Police have increased patrols in Putney after a spate of mobile phone snatches in the area. People talking on their phones are being targeted by bike-riding robbers, who cycle past and take the phones off the victims before speeding off, with
Thousands of fish have been killed after 450,000 tonnes of storm sewage was discharged into the River Thames. A clean up of the Thames was carried out last week between Kew Bridge and Albert Bridge, in Battersea, after large amounts of dead
Volunteer police cadets have taken part in a test purchase operation in an attempt to reduce the under age selling of knives and alcohol. The cadets volunteered their time during the recent half term school holiday to take part in test purchase
A 16-year-old boy was arrested on suspicion of burglary. Police were called to Ringstead Road, Sutton, at about 6.15pm on Wednesday to reports of a burglary in progress. The teenager was arrested nearby. He was bailed to return
The winner of a Noise Action Week Roadshow competition has been drawn from hundreds entries. Kristina Campbell, from Walton, received her prize of a portable Sony stereo system from Tony Deag, Elmbridge Council’s head of environmental health
