On a cold winter’s night on the 5th of December, Elliott Secondary School hosted the 2011 carol concert. The concert was a showcase of the musical talent of borough of Wandsworth. The main age group of the performers was KS1-3 (With the expectation of
The inevitable snowy weather, that has haunted this country in the past, is likely to come back again this month and show us exactly how awful we are when it comes to dealing with the situation. It has to be said that we cannot possibly cope with such
Brentford came into the match as strong favourites already leading by example holding onto a 7th place position in League One against a struggling Barnet side who have found their current season ranked 19th in League Two to be an upward journey. Although
Brooklands College has received a national award for its diversity scheme. The college, which has a campus in Weybridge, won the Investors in Diversity (IID) award after a team of staff and students spent six months working on a project to ensure that
A water leak will close one lane of the A3 tonight while it is repaired. The southbound lane of the Kingston bypass will be closed by Tolworth Rise South from 8pm while engineers work. Both lanes of Tolworth Rise South will be closed as well.
There are 49 schools and nurseries in Lambeth within 150 metres of London’s busiest roads, statistics have shown. The figures, uncovered by the Green Party, show the schools and nurseries lie close to roads carrying 10,000 or more vehicles
A mother-of-four who acted as a getaway driver during August's riots has dodged jail because she has four children. Jobless Atasha Leacock, from Elms Crescent, Clapham, was filmed parking her Ford Focus behind Curry's in New Cross, south-east
New Malden station has reopened following the death of a person hit by a train this afternoon. Police and ambulance crews who attended the incident, in which a person was hit by the 1.11pm Waterloo to Shepperton train on platform four, have
A man has been arrested after three homes were raided across Kingston in the early hours of this morning. Police arrested a 52-year-old man on suspicion of common assault on his partner, one of a series of dawn raids across the capital as part
By Steve from Trinity ward, Wimbledon The discussion of the proposed boundary changes is not showing the local Labour party in a good light. Don’t they want to get voted in? Surely the new boundaries mean that the Labour supporters in
Beg, borrow or steal a child – find any excuse to get down to Fairfield Halls for this year’s brilliant pantomime Aladdin. Evolution Pantomimes has pulled together the perfect mix of bawdy innuendo, cracker-joke style one liners and traditional
A woman is calling for foxes to be culled after they twice gnawed through the brake lines on her car. Erica Kirkpatrick, 54, from Ardrossan Gardens in Worcester Park wrote to the Epsom Guardian about the incidents following the debate about urban
Pupils at Danetree Junior School in West Ewell have been entertaining Christmas Shoppers this week for charity. The school’s choir raised £223.51 on Monday, December 5, by singing to shoppers at the Ashley Centre in support of the Epsom Medical
Wandsworth residents can question key decision makers on the Thames Tunnel project at a public meeting in Putney this week. Thames Water has recently launched its phase two consultation on the ‘super sewer’ scheme which includes several major
Commuters should have a bit more breathing space from next week as extra District Line services will be added to relieve rush-hour pressure. An extra five trains will run during the morning peak times from Wimbledon Station into central London
Croydon Council is inviting bids from not-for-profit organisations to provide services for carers. Details about the fund can be found on the council's website, and the deadline for submitting application forms and all accompanying documents
A City trader who blew millions in risky investments has been jailed for five years after admitting two counts of fraud. South Africa-born Shaun Oates, 31, of Bothwell Road, New Addington, appeared at The old Bailey on Friday (December 2) after
BT has confirmed this morning that all copper cabling cut at the weekend has been repaired and it believes all its customers should now be reconnected. Phone lines were dead and screens went blank in hundreds of homes on Sunday after thieves
Private investigator Glenn Mulcaire has been arrested today in connection with phone hacking and perverting the course of justice, according to reports. The private investigator, who lives in Cheam, has previously served time in jail for hacking
Two reindeer and six Ferrari supercars arrived at The Children’s Trust in Tadworth last week bearing Christmas presents for children and staff. Dreamer and Rudy, provided by Ice Queen, visited the trust on Friday, December 2, followed by the
A leading music shop in Croydon, has won Best Specialist Retailer award at the prestigious MIA (Music Industries Association) Awards in London. Jonathan Myall Music, in South End, beat stiff competition from retailers across the UK in the national
Two men who dragged a 60-year-old women out of her car as they stole it in Croydon have been jailed. The victim was sitting in her car in her driveway in Princess Avenue when Kevin Da Silva and Gracia Muakana approached the vehicle on March
Celebrations to mark the 20th anniversary of the Kingston University of the Third Age are drawing to a close. Members of the voluntary organisation, which is open to anyone in the ‘third stage’ of their lives, enjoyed a penultimate event to
Older people have been warned to check their electric blankets after a recent survey found half of those tested could start a fire. In a joint initiative with Age Concern Merton and the London Fire Brigade, Merton Council’s trading standards
'So I may soon join the forum of the failed fosterers club!' No, fortunately Toni Whitehouse is not talking about failing to adequately provide for a child in her care; she is discussing the beautiful, if slightly peculiar, world of pet fostering and
To begin with, I am not ashamed to say that I have always been a big fan of theatre and musical productions. There's something quite brilliant about watching a live performance on a stage and my definition of good piece is something that wouldn't work
A mother and daughter from Warlingham who saved the life of a badly wounded man are to receive a lifesaving award. Shirley Ferguson and her daughter Caroline Steward of Gladeside Court, Succombs Hill, have each been awarded a Royal Humane Society
I seem to have an issue and it's rather apparent that it's starting to dominate my life. A while back, a friend introduced me to the unimaginably addictive world of online blogs and forums. It started with following my personal favourites, roughly once
Croydon’s fire chief described how bricks rained down on firefighters as they tried to put out the blaze at House of Reeves during the August riots. Borough Commander Chris Bigland was speaking at the council’s riot inquiry panel yesterday
A lecturer has penned a new book about the influence the moon has on human behaviour. Niall McCrae, a lecturer in mental health at Kings College London, has released The Moon and Madness through Imprint Academic. The former psychiatric
Services on the Southern train networks are experiencing delays after a vehicle struck a bridge in Balham. A spokesperson for Southern trains said some services were experiencing delays of up to 15 minutes after the incident, which occurred
Traffic was heavy on the A23 in Croydon after a collision between a car and a truck. The incident occurred at about 9.35am this morning at Purley Cross in Purley. Police and London Ambulance Service were called to the scene. A
British Transport Police are appealing for information after a man with an invalid Oyster card attacked a ticket inspector. The man attacked the inspector after being asked to leave an East Croydon to Selhurst service, on October 18.
A road was ripped up twice in two weeks after bungling contractors failed the job first time round. Kingston Council contracted Aggregate Industries to resurface The Roystons, in Surbiton Hill Park to The Byeways, in mid November, after residents
A pensioner has spoken out to warn others after being targeted by conmen posing as her bank yesterday. The 70-year-old woman from Stoneleigh, received a phone call on the afternoon of Tuesday, December 6, from a man claiming to be from her
The festive spirit of giving has hit Kingston with two good causes sharing more than £7,000 in grants from the Surrey Comet. Through the Gannett Foundation, the charity arm of the newspaper’s parent company, the Comet is donating cash to the
Goldeneeeeye, it's got some weaknesses... Ahem. This is interesting – a remake that's not a remake, but more of a... re-imagining of an old, much-loved classic. Every gamer remembers Goldeneye 007 on the Nintendo 64, by Rare – is anyone going to
Police were called to reports of an armed robbery in Wallington at around 5.40pm last night. Officers arrived at Buy & XChange on Stafford Road to find a victim with a cut to his head. A police spokesman said the injury is not thought
A police officer faces jail after he admitted downloading thousands of images of child sex images. Darren Dearling, 42, of Bramblewood Close, Carshalton, pleaded guilty at Isleworth Crown Court last week to downloading the images. The
Campaigners fighting to prevent construction of an incinerator are planning more direct action after handcuffing themselves to council chamber railings at a meeting last night. In a show of defiance against the secretive plans for a new waste
A popular teacher found hanged in her home months after hitting her head in a fall at school, left a suicide note saying she "was not the same" since her accident. Cover supervisor Anne Davies was discovered in her home in Primrose Lane, Shirley
Around a thousand screaming girls visited Centrale shopping centre to see TOWIE star Joey Essex officially open the grown up grotto. The Only Way is Essex star, who changed his name to Joey Croydon for the launch, gave shoppers makeovers in
Sutton’s High Street shops are trying to make the town centre more accessible. The new Sit Stop scheme, run by a partnership between Sutton Council and Sutton's Seniors Forum, sees companies including Starbucks, The Body Shop, Millets and
Adoption rules should be relaxed to allow black couples to adopt white children and vice versa, it was argued, after figures revealed Merton was languishing in adoption tables. Merton Council has pledged to improve adoption timescales and allow
A bus driver suspended for sending inappropriate ‘sex text’ messages to two teenage passengers has been allowed to return to work on the same route. The man, who is in his 40s and works for Epsom Coaches, sent the messages to the girls, aged
Dancing dogs were not enough to lift pop star Will Young into the top 40. The singer’s new track, Come On – which is accompanied by a dog show-themed video shot at Wimbledon Studios – entered the charts at number 83, in the first week of its
Police hunting a man they believe tried to abduct a young woman have released a photofit picture of the suspect. The man, driving a new-looking black Range Rover Sport car with a cream interior, pulled over in Orchard Road, Kingston, at about
Residents were left in the dark last week after the borough’s Christmas lights switch on ceremony was blighted with an electrical fault. Crowds gathered in Windrush Square in Brixton on Friday (December 2) for the annual ritual but were denied
A Croydon leukaemia charity dedicated its latest recruitment drive to the memory of a former supporter. The African Caribbean Leukaemia Trust (ACLT) held several recruitment drives in a bid to find a life saving matched donor for Kye Carpenter-Mark
Convicted burglars will be getting an unwelcome Christmas card this year - from Surrey Police. The move is one of a series of initiatives to drive down burglaries this festive season which normally sees a 33 per cent increase in domestic burglaries
A big friendly dinosaur met young fans in Carshalton on Saturday. Children’s TV favourite Barney attended a free family activity day at the opening of the Tweeddale Centre. Visitors enjoyed face painting, arts and crafts, circus skills
A community group got their hands dirty this week as they planted bulbs with some similarly green-fingered schoolchildren. Members of the Friends of Streatham Green (FSOG) were joined by pupils from St Leonards C of E Primary School in Streatham
1970, the year the death sentence was abolished in the UK. Since then there have been conflicting opinions on whether or not to bring back the ultimate penalty. UK's dominant neighbour, USA still uses the sentence, though very sparsely. Indeed the sentence
