A free woodland activity and forest school session is taking place for anybody wanting to get to grips with nature. Wild Wood Activities are offering the session to teachers and parents interested in creative outdoor activities. The business
A vicar will cycle across Europe in a bid to raise thousands for an anti-slavery charity. Rev Gav Murray, minister of Morden Baptist Church, in Crown Lane, Morden, will be pedalling 2,500km across mainland Europe for the Zoe Challenge. The
The Mayor of London is meeting people at a community reception this week. Businesses, voluntary organisations and faith groups from Croydon and Sutton will be at the reception which is taking place in City Hall, in central London. Minority
A research company has developed a method to detect horse meat in food. Leatherhead Food Research, based in Randalls Way, Leatherhead, has been advising food companies since the start of the scandal. A team of scientists have developed a new
A charity that runs the country’s largest rehabilitation centre for children with acquired brain injuries was visited by a health minister last week. Dan Poulter, MP for central Suffolk and north Ipswich, talked to staff and patients during a walkabout
Volunteers are invited to help clean up the River Wandle today. The clean up is being organised by the Wandle Trust, a charity dedicated to restoring the health of the river. A health and safety briefing will be given before the clean up starts
A neighbourhood watch is hosting a family picnic next weekend. Stonecot Neighbourhood Watch have organised the event set to take place in Sutton Common Park, in Sutton Common Road, on Saturday. Visitors can meet the Safer Neighbourhood Police
Hundreds of people visited an Alzheimer's disease charity roadshow for advice and support. The Alzheimer's Society Dementia Community Roadshow stopped at Tesco, in Oldfield Road, Sutton as part of its current tour of London. Staff and volunteers
A man needed hospital treatment after being hit by a train in a busy station. The commuter, believed to be in his 30s, was in Clapham Junction Station, St John's Hill, when he was struck by the train at about 7pm yesterday. Paramedics treated
Hampton & Richmond Borough co-manager Paul Barry said he and Darren Powell took on the role after being assured there would be no further cuts to the player budget. The duo took the reins on a permanent basis following an hour-long meeting
Had it have been a photo finish Sutton United's mascot Jenny the Giraffe would have definitely won this year's mascot race by a neck, but unfortunately, it was never that close. Last weekend mascots from around the country galloped down the final
A new website has launched with the aim of promoting a Wimbledon industrial estate as a major hub for businesses. The South Wimbledon Business Area (SWBA) launched its new site last week (May 2) at an event at the Wimbledon Studios in Deer Park
Cyclists in Elmbridge are hopping on their bikes more than the rest of the county. Statistics from the Department of Transport have shown that 20 per cent of people in Surrey ride a bicycle at least once a month, more than the national average
Princess Alice Hospice will transform and extend its ground floor space after receiving a grant for nearly £500,000 from the Department of Health. Planning officers approved the project on Wednesday to extend, redesign and refurbish the West End
A school in Banstead has got a deal with Waitrose to sell vegetables that it is growing in its new greenhouse made out of plastic bottles. Banstead Community Junior School, in the Horseshoe, has teamed up with its local branch of the posh supermarket
A Croydon brewery successfully launched a series of new beers last week. The Cronx Brewery, run by Mark Russell and Simon Dale, launched a new pale ale and a I.P.A at the Half and Half Bar and Green Dragon Pub last Wednesday. Mark Russell said
Kids’ favourite Dora the Explorer is set to take Wimbledon by storm when her live musical stage show rolls into town later this year. Following successful shows in London’s West End last year, Dora the Explorer Live! Search for the City of Lost
The Town Hall clock is being refurbished as part of ongoing maintenance work. Work needs to carried out on the surface and the glazing of the clock. This means the bells need to be turned off for roughly eight weeks between May and July.
Racegoers at Sandown Park can enjoy a summer’s evening swinging back to 1960s America with a live theatrical performance by a rat pack tribute band. Rat Pack Vegas Spectacular will be performing some of the most well known American classics such
A hallway, living room and dining room can all be found in the middle of a busy high street. The Home Sweet Home pop up art commission, by architects Dallas Pierce Quintero, have built the domestic spaces in public areas across Balham. It aims
An award-winning landlady is swapping pints for plimsolls and running the Great Wall of China. Becky Newman, landlady of The Bricklayer's Arms, in Waterman Street, Putney, is taking on the challenge to raise money in memory of her sister. The
An “inspirational” 91-year-old volunteer at Kingston Hospital who greets people in their hour of need has been nominated as an unsung hero. Florence Powell, from Surbiton, has been welcoming patients at the hospital for more than 15 years.
I love my neighbours and this week I had a catch up with one of them while sitting on her porch in the sun. She was telling me about her mother and how she is a remarkable woman and does not think she has much longer to live. We both shed a
So did we all enjoy the baking hot bank holiday last weekend? Makes a change to have a bit of nice weather, eh. Have you noticed though, whenever there is a smidgen of hot weather, that the “annoy-ometer” gets cranked up to 11? Yep, a chink
