Fears Croydon University Hospital would lose its Accident and Emergency (A&E) and maternity department have been allayed this evening, after it was recommended St Helier Hospital in Sutton should be the one to face the cuts. As part of the NHS Better
Kingston Hospital's accident and emergency services looks to be safe after an NHS review panel said St Helier should lose out instead. Today a panel of 60 representatives made up from south west London hospital trusts, council members and community
Click here for the story regarding the recommendation Members of the Better Services, Better Value review panel have released statements regarding the recommendation to axe A&E and maternity services at St Helier. Dr Howard Freeman, local GP and
Police are appealing for help to trace a missing Kingston man. Martin Ratner was last seen at his home address in Kingston, at 9.15am, on Tuesday, May 8, but police enquiries suggest that he may now have left the area. The 67-year-old
Public sector workers are set to go on strike tomorrow in a national row over pensions and pay. Staff in South Thames College, Wandsworth High Street, Wandsworth and the Tooting campus, in Tooting High Street, will be picketing and handing
Paramedics are treating patients at a busy junction where a car hit a pedestrian in Streatham. Traffic is blocked both ways on Mitcham Lane following the incident at 3.30pm at the junction with Babington Road. There is also congestion
St Helier Hospital faces its darkest day after an NHS review panel recommended it lose its Accident and Emergency and maternity departments. Hospital staff could lose their jobs, while more lives in Sutton could be lost as critically ill residents
Extending your search for somewhere to rent by as little as half a mile can either dramatically increase, or reduce, the amount you might have to pay in rent. Andrew Hodgson, lettings director of Keys Residential in New Malden, recommends prospective
Hot off the success of it's off-West End run, Comedienne Angie Le Mar is back with her new comedy In My Shoes. Inspired by her previous comedy creations including Funny Black Women on the Edge and play The Brothers. In My Shoes sees
The Temperance Seven promise to provide a night of great tunes and unique humour when they perform in Croydon. Who would have predicted a band which topped the charts back in 1961 with a song and style already 40 years out of date, would still be around
Prosecutors offered no evidence and abandoned the trial of a man accused of kidnapping a taxi driver at knife point. Harry Mackay, 22, of Queens Road, Thames Ditton, was at Kingston Crown Court for the start of his trial on May 8, after pleading not
Footballer Lee Hughes has denied sexually assaulting a woman at a hotel in Purley. Notts County player Mr Hughes, 35, is accused of sexually touching a woman at the Aerodrome Hotel on December 3 last year, the night before his team's FA Cup
A football coach who is retiring after teaching pupils for 17 years, has been nominated for the Croydon Champion sporting award. Arthur Green voluntarily coaches the school team at St James the Great School in Thornton Heath, as well as running
Historic Hever Castle will celebrate the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee with its very own “Tudor Queen” presiding over a spectacular holiday weekend of entertainment. The childhood home of Anne Boleyn, the second of Henry VIII’s six wives, is staging a programme
Two men accused of stabbing a Mitcham teenager to death in Oxford Street on Boxing Day last year will face trial in October. Jermaine Joseph, 23, of Conway Road, Haringey, and Thulani Khumalo, 20, of Etherley Road, Haringey, are charged with
Old schools friends are joining together to raise money for a fellow student who was paralysed for life in an accident in Morocco. Suzanne Edwards, 25, who lived in Oakfield Road, Ashtead, before moving to West Sussex, was a pupil at Rosebery
The first stage of auditions for cast members of a new Croydon-based reality show took place last week. More than 5,000 people applied to be on Surrey Heights, after the Croydon Guardian broke the story that a new reality show was to be based
Terry Brown gave his AFC Wimbledon squad a spring clean on Tuesday by wielding the axe on nine more Dons careers. Jamie Stuart, Brett Johnson, Chris Bush, Gareth Gwillim, Keiran Djilali, Jack Turner, Ricky Wellard, Fraser Franks and Reece Jones were
Police are offering a £20,000 reward for help with their hunt for a lone gunman who shot a man dead while he sat in the driver’s seat of a parked car. Randy Osei-Boateng, of Leigham Avenue, Streatham, was hit by a single bullet to the chest
This atmospheric image of the Crystal Palace transmitter switching over to a digital TV signal is the winner of our competition. Upper Norwood snapper Fiona Elkins is the winner of a widescreen digital TV courtesy of Arqiva, the company behind
A schoolgirl from Sanderstead is to star in new Hollywood sci-fi blockbuster Prometheus. Lucy Hutchinson plays the main character, Elizabeth Shaw, as a child in the sci-fi blockbuster, due to be released next month. The eight-year-old
The memories of a WW2 evacuee are being brought to life through an original piece of work. Savvy’s Family Fun Night Out will feature an original play, The Girl on the Platform, fresh from its appearance at Brighton Fringe festival. The
Paul Doswell has admitted Woking have set the benchmark for success very high, but is determined his Sutton United men will match them - but it won't happen overnight. United lost 3-1 to the Cards in Tuesday's Surrey Senior Cup final meaning
An car crash involving four vehicles caused tailbacks on Carshalton Road this morning. Police described it as a minor incident which happened at around 9.40am. The London Ambulance Service said it attended the scene and checked over
Police have not yet formally identified a man found with stab wounds to the heart in a Weybridge flat. The man in his 40s is believed to be a foreign national and arrangements have been made for his next of kin to come to the England and identify the
Today is decision day for three hospitals in south west London as a panel meets to recommend which should lose its vital services. As part of the NHS Better Services Better Value (BSBV) review, either St Helier, Croydon University or Kingston
The sister of a mentally-ill Surbiton man who killed himself by setting fire to his flat has blasted Kingston Council for sitting on a report into her brother’s death. Council chiefs told Gillian Hall they would review mental health strategy
The sister of a disabled woman killed in a Tooting flat fire on Friday has told how she received a letter from her sibling two days after her death. Linda Wyatt, 55, died in a blaze in her ground floor flat in Huron Road on Friday afternoon
By Roy Vickery, Green Party; Terrapin Road, Tooting Thank you to the thousands of people who voted for the Green Party in the GLA elections. Although in Merton and Wandsworth our share of the poll dropped slightly since 2008, we feel
Formula One World Champion Damon Hill cycled 250 miles over the weekend through cold and rain to help people with learning difficulties. The former Williams driver set off from Putney Bridge on Friday morning with 40 fellow cyclists to take
An innocent father was stabbed to death by a teenager after he walked into a street fight over stolen drugs, a court has heard. Dwayne Roberts, 18, is accused of murdering Sri Lankan Tamil family man Akilankumar Kanthasamy, who was said to be “
Anti-terror cops swooped on the home of a Croydon couple suspected of bankrolling terrorists through the illegal sale of an East African stimulant. A married couple from Pitt Road, Thornton Heath, were arrested on suspicion of funding terrorism
The long-awaited winners of our South London Guardian Child of the Year competition have been announced. Dozens of children took part in our competition across Sutton, Croydon and Wimbledon in the first year of the competition which were then displayed
A 23-year-old man was taken to hospital after he was left trapped in a car following a collision. Firefighters from Woodside fire station were called to Clifton Road, Thornton Heath, at about 3.30am this morning. Two cars were involved
Two men forced a busy train to stop between stations before jumping out of it on to the tracks, police said. The two men were arrested after an emergency air ambulance had to be flown in near Mitcham Junction station, where the train had been
Students at Thames Ditton Junior School, Mercer Close held their own Olympic event on Thursday, May 3, ahead of the Games this summer. The day included a guest appearance from Olympic athlete, Josh Swaray. The British sprint champion
A 25-year-old man has been arrested in connection with the theft of bay trees. The trees were stolen from homes around Clapham Common West Side and Broxash Road, Battersea, on April 27. The man has been released on bail pending further
Lecturers at Croydon College will be on Strike on Thursday 10 May to demonstrate our opposition to the Government’s theft of £2.8 Billion from public sector pensions. We will be joining hundreds of thousands of other workers in national strike action
Conservative Steve O’Connell was re-elected to represent Croydon and Sutton at the London Assembly last week, but saw his majority cut considerably. At the elections for the London Assembly on Thursday, Councillor O'Connell won 60,152 votes
By Doug Scorgie; Hartfield Road, Wimbledon I refer to your article (‘Homeless banned after living in car park’). These two people are, according to the article, suffering from mental health problems which, I could imagine, can only
