Surrey Police will demonstrate the different aspects of their work during a family fun day. The free event will include police dog trials, demonstrations from the firearms unit and musical entertainment from Surrey Police’s very own Memorial Band. Visitors
A street angels scheme is to be launched at a special church service. The Walton Street Angels will gather for the service at St Mary’s Church on Friday, June 17, before they officially start their work in the town centre. Street Angels are volunteers
A top cop has spoken out about the latest murder in Lambeth. Chief Superintendent Nick Ephgrave, Lambeth Police Borough Commander, wrote a letter to the Streatham Guardian, following the murder of 18-year-old Nana Darko-Frempong, in Tulse Hill.
Tooting & Mitcham's members' club has waived a clause enabling them to buy back the Terrors in an effort to get the club some much-needed cash. The club, made up of supporters who have paid to be members, held an emergency general meeting last Friday
A mother of two from Epsom will be signing copies of her debut children’s book, the boy who hated toothbrushes, at Waterstones this Saturday, June 11. Zehra Hicks, 39, was inspired to write her debut picture book by repeated bedtime battles
A man has been killed after being struck by a train at East Croydon station on Monday morning. The victim, believed to be a 50-year-old from Penge, was pronounced dead at the scene after being hit by the Three Bridges-bound Victoria service
A man has died after falling from a block of flats in Roehampton this morning. Police and the ambulance service were called out to the flats on Danebury Avenue and the 32-year-old man was pronounced dead at the scene. A police spokesperson
New research has shown really how popular the proposed site of a major tunnelling project is - with about 10,000 visitors every weekend. Barn Elms playing fields between Putney and Barnes is under threat after Thames Water announced in November
A man who was found dead in bushes beside Epsom Road, Ewell on June 1 has been formally identified as Daniel Hughes, 34, from Norbury. Police were called to the scene at around 11.30pm after reports that a man had collapsed in bushes.
A railway worker was left fighting for his life after being hit by a high-speed train while working on the track. The maintenance man, who is in his 30s, was left with multiple injuries after being struck by the Victoria-bound Gatwick Express
Fourteen Crystal Palace fans raised more than £3,500 last weekend by circumnavigating London on their feet. The hardy soles were raising money for the Royal Marsden Hospital and the Pulmonary Hypertension Association by taking on a circular
Households in Hammersmith and Fulham have only one more month to act if they want to be in with a chance of winning a £25,000 cash prize. All they need to do is sign up to pay their council tax bill by Direct Debit before 5pm on July 14 to be entered
Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg helped Liberal Democrats in Sutton mark 25 years at the helm of Sutton Council. Mr Clegg joined councillors past and present, activists and other Lib Dem supporters as guets of honour at a celebration dinner
An estranged wife hammered her husband to death and then put a note on his body saying ‘I love you’, a jury has heard. Office manager Sally Challen, 57, of Ashton Place, Claygate, denies murdering husband Richard Challen, 61, on Saturday, August
Tributes have been paid to a delivery driver who was mown down by his own van after trying to stop a thief stealing it. Charles Bunyasi, 49, from Mitcham, was crushed under the rear wheels of his van in Coulsdon on Saturday morning and died
Andy Turner splashed and slumped to a fourth place finish in the slippery wet conditions of Bislett Stadium track in Oslo, Norway last Thursday. The 30-year-old Sutton-based European Outdoor and Commonwealth 110m hurdles champion began strongly before
Team Bronze medal winners in the London Youth Games Floor and Vault gymnastics competition held at Goresbrook this weekend. Pictured (L-R) Holly Kilmurry (also individual all around gold medal and individual vault bronze medal); Kellie Palmer; Emily Pardoe
Another meeting will be held to discuss controversial proposals to expand Dundonald Primary School, after more than 100 people - including the MP - were shut out from the last one. Councillor Peter Walker, Merton Council's cabinet member for
Barry Aplin, the chairman of Sutton United FC Ltd, has died after a short illness. A lifelong supporter of the club, Aplin had a short spell as the club's reserve goalkeeper and was first elected as a director of the club 30 years ago.
Labour leader Ed Miliband and Streatham MP Chuka Umunna are doing a walkabout at an estate this morning. They will be talking to residents at the Blenheim Gardens estate, in Brixton Hill, from 11.30am. Mr Miliband, who has recently been
Actor John MacMillan, who is taking part in the filming of the new Batman film in Croydon, opened a new garden in a pre-school in West Norwood. The garden at Chatsworth Baptist Church School was paid for with a capital funding for schools grant
A “face-saving measure” to retain Merton’s community policing structure, but with a reduction in sergeants, will be confirmed on Thursday. The Metropolitan Police will formally unveil to the Metropolitan Police Authority its proposal to keep
Lilian, Pauline and Barbara Thomas: They used to live in Brentford. I havent seen them for 45 years, because we moved to switzerland. Their father was my mother`s brother. My mum`s name was Joan. Lynda Schaffhauser-Thomas
Three-time Wimbledon finalist Andy Roddick heads a field of highly world-ranked Wimbledon contenders in this week’s BNP Paribas Tennis Classic at Hurlingham Club, Fulham, writes Ziad Chaudry. The 29-year-old Texas based current world number 10
Police have recovered the stolen van that knocked down Mitcham father-of-three Charles Bunyasi in Coulsdon. The van driven by the Sutton Council employee was recovered in Purley on Sunday evening. Police have launched a murder investigation
It's 9.30pm on June 2. Sitting in the garden I enjoy a rare windless mild evening as the light gradually fades. At rooftop height, a flight of about fifteen swifts screams through the air at incredible speed while close by a songthrush and blackbird
A sportsman raised more than £3,000 for the National Autistic Society by taking part in a gruelling 67km race. Charley McDermott took four and a half hours to complete the Gaelforce West race in Ireland which involves cycling, running, hiking
Elmbridge Museum will soon be history when it is closed down next year. The Tory cabinet at Elmbridge Council announced the museum, in Church Street, Weybridge, which is currently open five days a week, will shut in April, in a move they
A Sutton nightclub once the scene of serious gang violence is to reopen under new owners. Kinetic, in Cheam Road, when called Love2Love, closed after a shooting in September 2008 involving two of south London's most notorious gangs.
Final lists have been announced for the forthcoming Thamesfield by-election to replace former Wandsworth Council leader Edward Lister. Four candidates are now in the running for the vacant seat which will go to vote on June 30. Marian
This was the moment unemployed cannabis farmer Robert Cox realised the game was up. The 51-year-old from South Norwood hurled himself through a skylight onto the roof of his drug factory during a police raid, causing a 30-minute standoff as
Epsom and St Helier Trust have appointed a new deputy medical director who will play a key role in engaging hospital staff to secure the trust’s uncertain future. Dr James Marsh has worked at Epsom and St Helier hospitals for the last eight
A 13-year-old girl played a pivotal role in rescuing a missing cat after a specialist team of pet detectives were called in by its owner. Emily O’Dell from Greencurve Road, Banstead came to the rescue of two-year-old tabby Foyi, after a cat fight
A free health walk scheme run by Epsom and Ewell council will soon be handed over to volunteers in an attempt to transform the group into a self-sustaining initiative. The scheme, which provides regular, informal and friendly walks, has proven
