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  • Free home insulation scheme launched

    Residents can get free home insulation after the launch of a new council scheme. Working alongside Climate Energy, Croydon residents can benefit from free installation of cavity wall and loft insulation. All Croydon homeowners and private residents

  • Builders take note: this is what buyers really want

    Today’s homebuyers ‘need and expect’ their new property to have plenty of indoor and outdoor space, natural light and lots of storage according to a groundbreaking new report. The Royal Institute of British Architects’ survey, The Way We Live

  • Organised crime group plead guilty to bank courier scam

    Six men from Croydon are among ten people facing jail for conning elderly residents in a bank courier scam. The organised crime group pleaded guilty to conning elderly residents in Surrey, out of over £120,000 by posing as bank employees and

  • MP cousin gives Australian keeper a helping hand

    Members of Parliament do not always get good press, but MP Robert Buckland’s name will go up in lights should a football hopeful land a dream move to the Dons. Australian shotstopper Ben McNamara is currently sharing his cousin Buckland’s Westminster

  • Bryant proud of Olympic qualification

    Kingston-born judo player Karina Bryant was named in the Team GB judo squad for the London 2012 Games this week and is hoping to make it fourth time lucky. The 33-year-old, who lives in Camberley, has a host of world and European medals to her name,

  • Dairy Crest staff aim for £500k fundraising target

    Milkmen stepped out of their floats and on to their bikes to take part in the London to Brighton bike ride on June 17. A number of brave souls from Dairy Crest, an Esher company, took to their bikes to take part in Europe’s largest charity bike ride.

  • Oddsocks creates Julius Caesar with a difference for Walton

    An Olympic-themed toga-tastic Julius Caesar will provide a mix of high-energy performance and hilarity. Rome’s creaking coalition is under strain as the nation’s sporting games are held to honour Emperor Caesar. The senators are having

  • Brabants not fussed by below par Euro show

    Teddington’s Tim Brabants is confident failing to reach the K1 1,000m final at the European Championships in Croatia last weekend was no cause for concern. The 35-year-old finished fourth in his semi-final in Zagreb and had to make do with a second place

  • Sainsbury’s Balham flies the flags

    In May Sainsbury’s Balham announced a community event to run a drawing competition for the local children to help celebrate the Jubilee. All participants were provided with one A4 piece of bunting and they had to draw ‘What The Queens Jubilee Means

  • Children's Minister backs Surrey's savings scheme

    The Children’s Minister has urged other councils to follow Surrey’s lead by launching a savings scheme for children in care. Minister Tim Loughton said Surrey’s scheme that sees cash young people pay into a savings account doubled by the council as “

  • Maverick council mowers 'butcher' private garden

    A private garden is being "butchered" by council staff despite the homeowner's protestations. Homeowner Jane Ray, 51, has told Sutton Council's maverick mowers to get off her land but staff are not listening. Ms Ray, who has lived on