50 fire fighters and ten fire engines battled a blaze at a residential tower block in Lambeth in the early hours of Friday morning, July 15. Fire fighters from Lambeth, Brixton, Clapham and Southwark were called to the 17-storey tower block
A new campaign will be launched by the borough’s safer neighbourhood team on Monday, July 18, to help drive down the number of burglaries in Epsom and Ewell. Epsom and Ewell’s safer neighbourhood team have been given £500 through the independent
Walk to School Week, held in Sutton in May, has been branded a ‘huge success’ after a 22 per cent rise in the number of children walking to school. The week long initiative saw 3,500 primary school children ditching car journeys to walk, cycle
Two men, aged 21 and 22, have been arrested on suspicion of attempted murder after an unarmed police officer was shot in the arm while chasing three men in South Croydon. A third 18-year-old man was arrested on suspicion of causing grievous
Music inspired by French can-can, a Russian Cossack dance and an Italian tarantella will feature in the Thames Youth Orchestra Summer Concert tonight, writes Clare Buchanan. The ensemble of nine professional musicians and more than 70 young players
Kingsdown Avenue in South Croydon remains closed this morning after a police officer was shot in the arm last night. (July 15) Police were called to Kingsdown Avenue just before 10pm after reports of suspicious activity. On arrival three
Two men and one woman from Wandsworth were jailed for a total of 18 years at Kingston Crown Court on Friday, July 15, for conspiracy to supply class A drugs. Nathaniel Gaynes, 19, of Elmbourne Road, SW17, Chad Burton, 21, of Fawcett Close, SW11 and
A teenager from Sutton is to undergo life-changing surgery in America, which could allow her to walk independently for the first time after a Herculean fundraising effort. Dana Johnston has Diplegia Cerebral Palsy, which affects her ability
Nearly 1,000 young people attended the annual Youth Leisure Day (YLD) Xtreme on Saturday, July 9, organised by local young people alongside Epsom & Ewell Council's leisure developments team. The event, held at Rosebery Park in Epsom, provided
A state of the art training centre and community hub in Brixton has been officially opened by the Mayor of Lambeth, Councillor Christiana Valcarcel. The MI Skills Development Centre centre, on the site of former pub, The Queen in Bellefields
Doctors at Epsom hospital are warning parents to be aware of their children’s health when visiting petting zoos and farms this school holiday. Senior microbiologist at Epsom and St Helier hospitals, Dr John Clark, said: “For many families,
The council is proposing to spend up to £60million to create more school places in the borough. Plans include spending £10.1million on building a new primary school and £14.1million on expanding six primary schools to provide more places for
Three men were arrested in Croydon last night after a police officer was shot in the arm. Police were called to Kingsdown Avenue just before 10pm on Friday, July 15, after reports of suspicious activity. On arrival three men ran off
Plans to convert a toilet block into a cafe could be saved after a mysterious landowner came forward. The Sutton Guardian appealed in November for an unknown Lord of the Manor, who has land ownership rights for land on Sutton Green, after learning
A car was embedded in the front of a bus after a head-on smash on a busy main road. The collision between the blue car and a 151 double-decker bus took place on Cheam Common Road at about 3.45pm on Monday. A woman, believed to be the
Whitton rower Jon Collins has been named in the Great Britain team for next week’s World Under 23 Championships in Holland. The 22-year-old is one a 49-strong squad of Olympic prospects heading to Amsterdam on Thursday hoping to match GB’s
Angry residents have created “uproar” over plans to house recovering addicts in their quiet Morden street. They claim Pollard Road is the wrong setting for a home offering temporary respite for former drink and drug users. But a spokeswoman
Families flocked to the riverside to celebrate the annual river festival and Kingston regatta over the weekend. Music and entertainment complemented the rowing for the festival which took place on the stretch of the Thames from Charter Quay
Surgeons have used their expertise to save the knee of a young rugby player. William Marment, who is also a keen martial arts competitor, injured his knee playing rugby in Venice, where he was on tour with his school Tiffin Boys in 2009.
A large outdoor search tent returned to Kingston town centre as part of Operation Fallon – the largest ever policing operation in the borough. The police operation on July 1 was the second one since April and designed to stamp out antisocial
A teenager accused of killing a man outside a nightclub in Margate has been given bail. Charlie McBride, 19, of Brighton Road, Sutton, is charged with the manslaughter of 25-year-old Richard Collier outside the Kabuki club in Marine Gardens
Past and present members of an ambulance division have left a gift to future members at the site of their headquarters. The St John Ambulance Cobham division created a tomb to accommodate the time capsule, which was buried at their base in
Last week, we showed you a parade of shops which still look the same to this day. Congratulations to those of you who correctly told us the picture was St Johns Hill looking towards the start of East Hill. This week, you can see a police
Girls from 5th Worcester Park Guides joined more than 4,000 other girls from across London and the South East of England as they walked across some of the world-famous bridges spanning the River Thames between Westminster and Tower Bridge last weekend
Brooklands College’s construction department dazzled Hampton Court Flower Show with an award-winning charity garden, after collaborating with gold medallist landscape architect Bill Butterworth. The garden was first put on display by the Weybridge
A Brixton teenager who was dealing drugs at 17 is set to release his debut single featuring American rapper Ghostface Killah. Josh Osho fell out with his parents and began sleeping rough aged 16, and by 17 was dealing drugs from a halfway house
A father who campaigns against domestic violence after his daughter was strangled to death, was honoured with an invite to the Queen’s garden party. Chris Phillips, 57, was honoured for his campaign work and was one of 8,000 guests invited
A flood of couples have said “I do” in an unexpected wedding stampede. But it seems Merton’s surge in the number of newlyweds is not a result of April’s royal celebrations. Instead, it has been put down to a change in the law that makes
Green-fingered residents have been nurturing everything from marrows to tulips in eager anticipation of today’s annual Claygate Flower and Village Show. The event, held on the third Saturday of July every year, has been a regular feature in Claygate
Bird lovers are invited to see rare Tree Sparrows on a tour of Beddington Farmlands as part of the RSPB led London Tree Sparrow Partnership. The event, on July 17, will start at Hackbridge Station at 1.15pm and will give the public an opportunity
A police officer has been hospitalised after being shot in Croydon. Three people have been arrested after the police officer was shot in the arm on Kingsdown Avenue after responding to a call of a man behaving suspiciously. The police
