After the late Whitney Houston passed away on February 11th 2012, her songs have received the highest amount of views on YouTube than ever before. Doesn’t this happen with all legends after death or is it just me? After Michael Jackson died in 2009
The 29th of February - a day that only happens every four years? What a peculiar concept! It is due to the fact that a whole year is not 365 days long, but actually 365 and a quarter days, meaning that every four years, the four quarters make a whole
On the week of 28th January – 4th February, I was very lucky to be in Germany as part of the Year 10 Tiffin School German Exchange program. Having already hosted our partners from the Rhein-Wied-Gymnasium last November, it was our turn to visit their
With the results for the Tiffin 11+ exam coming out on Thursday, the problem of allocating everyone a place at a local school comes to our attention again. The main problem which surrounds Tiffin is the system of allocating places, whereby it is done
The number of adults in Britain who have numeracy skills no more than an 11-year old has risen from 15 million to an astonishing 17 million. It has become common, even acceptable or fashionable to declare that one ‘can’t do maths’. As a student
A former News of the World journalist, linked to the Daniel Morgan murder during a parliamentary debate, has denied he had any dealings with the private investigator prior to his death. Responding to questions from the Press Gazette, Mr Marunchak
At Surbiton High School there is an exciting project currently undergoing. Lead by the enthusiastic and passionate English teacher Miss Suzy Pett, the Ghana Book Project, is entitled Akenkan. The name Akenkan for the series, which means ‘read along’ in
Richard Brady has labelled Leatherhead’s crunch game with Harrow Borough on Saturday as their biggest of the season, writes James Dickenson. The Tanners are embroiled in a relegation battle in the Ryman Premier League having failed to escape
A man who strangled his wife to death after she admitted she was having an affair, thought he had released his grip from her throat. Gary Brockwell, 48, is accused of murdering his wife Gaynor 46, at their Forestdale home on October 7 last
Carshalton and Wallington MP Tom Brake has said he will up his fight to save services at St Helier Hospital, as he admitted he feared its maternity services were most at risk from major service cuts in south west London. One of south west
A 40th minute goal from Carshalton’s Luke Pigden sent Leatherhead to their 18th defeat of the season on Tuesday as they lost 1-0. In a game with few clear cut chances at either end, the former Leatherhead midfielder headed home from under the bar to
Three Carshalton boxers step into the ring again tomorrow night. Ricky Boylan, right, and Lee Owen are fighting at light welterweight at the Troxy in Limehouse, with Boylan up against Ben Zarakani as he looks for his fourth professional win, while Owen
Undefeated Sutton & Cheam U12s romped to the Water Polo Winter League title on Sunday after a flawless campaign. The team made it 12 wins out of 12 as they beat Basildon 5-0, Beckenham 7-1, Watford 5-1 and Ealing 4-2 in their final round of matches at
Carshalton Athletic recorded their second win in four days with a 1-0 victory over struggling Leatherhead on Tuesday night, writes James Barrett. Midfielder Luke Pigden hit the winner five minutes before half-time which, coupled with a rare clean sheet
Sutton Runners and Collingwood AC both sent men’s teams to the English National Cross Country Championships at Parliament Hill Fields on Saturday. Neither team managed to trouble the higher ends of the field though as Sutton came 77th out of 125 and
People living near Putney’s Elliott School will be invited to comment on plans to fund its conversion into an academy by selling its playing fields. Proposals are being put together by the school's governors, Wandsworth Council and education charity
If AFC Wimbledon are to avoid getting embroiled in the League Two relegation battle, then the next two weeks are vital. That is the message Terry Brown and Stuart Cash have given to the Dons squad as they go into a run of four games in 11 days all against
A new-look five-day refuse collection service will see fewer lorries on the roads, a return of free garden waste collections and produce savings to local council taxpayers of nearly £1m a year. From April 1, Wandsworth's refuse service will see an
Croydon police have released images of recovered items they believe to have been stolen, in a bid to reunite them with their owners. The items were all recovered from an address in Stanford Road, Norbury, last October. Officers executed
Kenny Brown has told his Tooting & Mitcham squad they must beat whipping boys Horsham this Saturday to get their survival hopes back on track. The Terrors lost 1-0 at home to Canvey Island on Saturday and remain third bottom of the Ryman Premier League
A man has died after falling from one of the borough's tallest buildings this morning. Police were called to Neville Gill Close this morning at about 8am after passers-by spotted a man's body lying in the street. Ambulance crews arrived shortly after
An older person’s information and advice day will be held on Friday, March 16. The organiser and sponsor, Tony Ward, of Home Instead Senior Care, is calling on local seniors to attend the event which offers a helping hand to elderly members
Chanting protesters were thrown out of the Guildhall last night as councillors gathered to approve £9m of cuts to public services in next year’s budget. Kingston’s mayor Councillor Patrick Codd was forced to retire and pause the meeting as
A man is due in court charged with robbing a friend of Prince Harry as he chatted to him on the phone in a Battersea street. The Prince drove to help Thomas van Straubenzee, after receiving a call from his friend, following the incident in Albert Bridge
Doctors calling for A&E and maternity unit closures in south west London hospitals have predicted public campaigns against their plans. One of St Helier, St George's in Tooting, Kingston and Mayday in Croydon is set to be downgraded over the
A British rock band, Martin Turner’s Wishbone Ash is coming to a club in Sutton. The band owes its heritage to Wishbone Ash, a West Country band which achieved success in the 1970s. As the original bassist, lead vocalist and songwriter Martin
Devoted foodies who want a taste of the exotic are invited to attend a new Mauritian supper club starting in Croydon. Supper clubs are the latest culinary phenomenon which sees secret dinner parties hosted in people's home but with a twist,
A Cheam primary school has become one of the first schools to be inspected under new Ofsted arrangements. Cuddington Croft Primary School in West Drive was rated as a good under the revised Ofsted criteria which came into force in January.
Merton Park Bowling Club are on the lookout for new members after being saved from closure this season. The 86-year-old club, based in Jon Innes Park and Recreation Ground in Mostyn Road, feared before Christmas they would be forced to close due to cuts
Ruth Clifton, Liam White and Emma Headley all claimed top 50 finishes at the National Cross Country Championships last Saturday. Clifton, below, is a Hercules Wimbledon athlete but ran for Thames Hare & Hounds at Parliament Hill Fields and finished 24th
One of south west London's four accident and emergency departments (A&E) faces closure, after an NHS review recommended the number of A&Es in the region is reduced. The future of the emergency care at St Helier, St George's, Kingston, and Croydon
Earlsfield ABC have a national schoolboy champion in Patrick Ward. He beat Runcorn’s Jadzimir Duniak in the class one, 48 kg category at the national amateur boxing finals in Mansfield last weekend Earlsfield’s Gary Hearne fought well in the class three
The Croydon Stagers are back for a one-off matinee performance of Music Hall. Experience an afternoon of escapism, extravagance and excellence, as war-time classics combine with comedy, song and dance for a step back in time to the tradition of the British
Ola Afolabi wants to regain his WBO world cruiserweight title in Germany this Saturday. The 31-year-old former Battersea Amateur Boxing Club representative, who now lives in America, meets Russia’s Valery Brudov at the Espirit Arena in Dusseldorf for
A riding centre for the disabled has been awarded £80,000 to improve their service and maintain their accessibility. The Diamond Centre in Carshalton was awarded the money over three years by the City of London’s City Bridge Trust. The
A war hero who died in a plane crash more than fifty years ago is to be given a full burial after his remains, found in dense Malaysian rainforest, were formally identified. RAF navigator Geoff Carpenter, from Roxburgh Road, West Norwood was
A major hotel chain has announced it plans to open five new hotels in Croydon by 2025 creating 150 new jobs. Travelodge, today said it wanted to open the hotels across the borough with sites in: Coulsdon - 70 beds Norbury - 80
Purley chef Kevin Boyle ordered an internet suicide kit which was delivered on the day he disappeared, his mother has revealed. The 26-year-old of Old Lodge Lane went missing last October and his body was found on January 23, at the bottom
Two teenagers from Wandsworth Swimming Club will mix it with the best at the British National Swimming Championships this week. Tim Robinson and Archie Mitchell are both only 15 years old but qualified as two of the 30 competitors in the men’s 1,500m
Streatham-Croydon’s young players are to train with the stars of Premiership leaders Harlequins after winning a national competition. The club’s mini side were one of 12 grassroots clubs to be awarded a training session with top Premiership players and
Herne Hill Harriers’ Saskia Millard capped off a successful season with a superb sixth place at the National Cross Country Championships at Parliament Hill on Saturday. The young athlete, who won bronze at the South of England Championships last month
Luol Deng’s debut appearance in the NBA’s annual All-Star game on Saturday may have been short, but it still made history. The 26-year-old Chicago Bulls forward, who spent a large part of his teenage years in Norwood, lasted just five minutes 51 seconds
TV personality Michael Aspel is compering a concert for Weybridge Male Voice Choir. The spring concert will also feature Treble Clef Ladies Choir and A Touch of Brass. The choirs will sing from their vast repertoire of classical and light music to raise
The MP for North Croydon, one of the worst affected areas by the August Riots, has called a report from a public enquiry into the disorder “extraordinarily brief...and somewhat shallow.” Malcolm Wick MP has questioned the lack of witness testimony
South London Harriers and Croydon Harriers enjoyed encouraging results at the National Cross Country Championships on Saturday. Held at Parliament Hill Fields and featuring 4,624 runners, South London took the bragging rights in the senior races but
You would be hard pressed to find a happier football club than Crystal Palace right now. On the pitch, the Eagles are five games unbeaten and outplayed then league leaders West Ham United on Saturday as they gained a credible 0-0 draw at Upton Park.
Another Wimbledon football legend has come forward in support of our campaign for sporting justice. John Scales, who played 240 games for Wimbledon FC, including during the club’s historic 1988 FA Cup win over the mighty Liverpool, said he owed it
Colleagues have remembered a leading Sutton magistrate who who died suddenly this month. Paul Anderson, 54, suffered a heart attack while in his car a short distance from his home in Carshalton Beeches on February 15. The father-of-two
A mother in training to run a marathon in support of her four-year-old epileptic son has held an event to raise funds. Lisa Gill, 27, from Sutton, will be running the Brighton marathon in April in support of the Epilepsy Society, a disorder her son
Plans to build a separate memorial for Carshalton’s WWII dead have been shelved, after the council claimed it was too expensive. War veteran William Quattrucci, 84, has been campaigning for more than 10 years to see the names of the fallen
Merton’s schools are institutionally racist, a councillor has suggested – sparking anger from teachers, unions and the community. Councillor Agatha Akyigyina, a Labour member for Cricket Green ward, said schools “may unwittingly be institutionally
A 19-year-old shop assistant has made it to the regional finals of the UK's biggest national competition for unsigned artists. Ashton Forde, of Tooting, will be performing in the next stage of the finals of Live and Unsigned in Camden after impressing
A golf club is celebrating its centenary with a Titanic Ball. Woodcote Park Golf Club was opened in the same year the ill-fated liner sank on its maiden voyage. But the club has survived two World Wars and is still going strong.
Friends have praised a husband and car fanatic killed in a road accident. Darren Green, 35, from Carshalton, died on Tuesday morning after the silver Peugeot he was driving was involved in a crash with a refrigerated lorry in Mitcham.
An investigation has been launched into how a mum ran off with her baby during a supervised care visit. Lauryn Bateman, 28, went missing with her 14-month-old son, Terry John Lee, at about 2pm during a visit at the Sutton Family Centre in Robin
A bedroom fire at a care home was well attended by firefighters following the devastating consequences of last year’s fire in sheltered accommodation at Gibson Court. Esher firefighters took extra precautions when they were called to Linwood House, Thames
The family of a man who went missing after attending a rave in a disused car showroom almost three weeks ago have asked other clubbers to help find him. The family of Andrew Cooke, 29, are becoming increasingly concerned as they face an agonising
Police had to talk down a man threatening to jump from scaffolding in Church Street this morning. The man who had climbed onto the scaffold at 2.40am has been taken to hospital after officers spent two and a half hours persuading him not to
Spurs and England striker Jermain Defoe met children from St Andrew’s Catholic Primary to collect a £500 cheque for a hurricane-hit school in his native St Lucia. Defoe, who is a sports ambassador for St Andrews, in Streatham, and his mother
Police officers in Lambeth called in sick almost 30 per cent more than the average worker last year, new figures show. The data, revealed as part of an Freedom of Information (FoI) request by the Streatham Guardian, highlights an increasing
Fly-tippers who dumped one to two tonnes of rubbish in a residential street have been dubbed vandals by a councillor. Coun Ken Smith was leaving home for an evening meeting when he was faced with the discarded carpet, wood and plastic bin bags
A six-year-old girl has written an impassioned letter to the leader of the council to save one of Croydon's libraries. The Cypress Junior School pupil took it upon herself to write the letter to save her library after learning both Croydon
A second kitten has been mauled to death in a West Ewell road sparking fears that rogue foxes are developing a taste for family pets. Seven-month-old George was torn apart in his next door neighbour’s garden in Pam’s Way in West Ewell on November
People have the chance to have a one-to-one chat with the council leader this afternoon. Council leader Ravi Govindia will be answering questions from 2pm to 3pm today on community website Streetlife. Coun Govindia wants to find out
Residents evacuated from their homes after a fire ripped through a nearby timber warehouse have called for an investigation into the blaze. About 20 people living in Elgar Avenue and King Charles Road met with Kingston councillors to discuss the fallout
Ambulances are being tied up with record numbers of patients causing long waits for beds at St Peter’s Hospital. That is the message from people who have fought hard for more beds in community hospitals in the past few years. Thursday
HOW many of us have an old pair of specs lying around in a draw or cupboard and have no idea what to do with them? Specsavers in Croydon, decided to help highlight this locally for Vision Aid Overseas. The store, located at 19 Church Street, called
When you open our student planners, the first page you will see is SCHOOL UNIFORM POLICY, which speaks clearly for one of our school's key philosophies. We have had quite a few whole-school assemblies concerning our skirt lengths, dress lengths, the specific
Sunday 26th February saw the launch of News internationals latest project, the Sun on Sunday, after allegations of misconduct and the demise of The News of The World. Many have dubbed Murdoch’s newest venture as a way to ‘fill the hole left by’ the
In recent months, a younger sibling of mine decided to engage in the local Army Cadets. He has an aspiring passion for the military industry and wishes to express his pride in the United Kingdom by serving for the military in his future. At the end
As I made myself comfortable in the lush seats of the University of Surrey’s Lecture Theatre No.3 this afternoon of the 29th of February, I didn’t know quite what to expect. My schoolmates and I had been told no more than the title of the lecture that
What was once a secluded jazz club situated down High Street in Streatham, has now exploded into a full bar, restaurant and club that is attracting vast numbers of customers with it's sharp bold theme colors and top - quality jazz acts such as the legendary
The question that is asked to everyone when they are little is now harder to answer than ever, simply saying ‘a princess’ or an ‘astronaut’ doesn’t cut it anymore. Unless of course you’re a member of the royal family, and in which case you probably already
When I woke up this morning all was good. I took a shower, got dressed and went downstairs to eat some breakfast. I poured a bowl of cereal, poured in the milk and went over to the television. I turned it on and... static. A loud screech and fuzzy image
It’s that time of year, where after a couple of months of cold, bleak weather; we all fancy a bit of snow. Hundreds of thousands of people it seemed had booked their week off for skiing in some fresh snow this half term. Just a week before my departure
As I arrived at Shepard’s Bush Empire on a surprisingly warm Sunday evening in February, I did not know what to expect from Marina "and the Diamonds" Diamandis, the glamourous yet rather eccentric 26 year old from Wales obsessed with all things America
As a student in any educational facility you can expect some sort of examination albeit oral, written or through other means and they become not only a right of passage but also a normality. So why is it that they, 'they' being exams, can cause us so
Lovers everywhere, let us unite for the 2012 leap year on the 29th of February where love blossoms even more than on Valentine’s Day. Today is a day where old folk traditions rule the pathways of love. Hoverer it is also a day that leads to successful
Following it’s early days in the 1970s as a feature on the news programme Nationwide, the first Brit Awards show was broadcast in 1977. Each year the show has grown in publicity, with live broadcasting beginning in 2007, since which it has moved to the
With everyone looking forward to the host of events being held in London this summer, including, amongst others, the Diamond Jubilee celebrations, the series of Hyde Park concerts and the Olympics, it can be easily forgotten that this year is also important
The search for an authentic Italian restaurant that provides the total Italian experience has never been fully achieved. Until now. Located some two hundred meters from Clapham Junction Railway station, the unsuspecting authentic Italian restaurant, Donna
RAG stands for raising and giving. RAG week is a week where students organise several events to raise money for charity. The concept of RAG week originated from South Africa, at the University of Pretoria in 1925. The students of Pretoria, paraded down
