A 15-year-old boy from Sutton has been missing since yesterday...
A 15-year-old from Sutton has been missing since yesterday afternoon (April 29).Edvinas Jankevicius was last seen at 4.20pm in Albion Road.Edvinas is a white boy, 6ft 1ins tall, of a medium build and...
View Article5 reasons why Sutton is just about worth a visit
Ask anyone who lives in Croydon whether they think their borough is better than neighbouring Sutton and we would hope the response would be almost unanimous. With better shops, better nightlife, better...
View ArticleSomeone has sprayed graffiti on one of the Crystal Palace Park...
Graffiti has been sprayed on one of the Crystal Palace Park sphinxes.Carol Keenan-pillai, 51, who lives in Anerly and walks through the park every morning, noticed the graffiti on one of the two...
View ArticleMay Bank Holiday opening times for IKEA Purley Way, plus Croydon...
Is today the day when you can no longer put off the DIY tasks such as painting the spare room, or venturing out to start shopping for a new kitchen or replacing the annoyingly squeaky windscreen wiper...
View ArticlePaedophile who raped 4-year-old girl jailed after 19-year quest...
A paedophile who raped and sexually abused a four-year-old girl, making her promise not to tell anyone "their secret", has been jailed.Mark Mansell, 43, would sneak into the girl's bedroom at night and...
View ArticleNHS urge parents to stop using 'willy' or 'front bottom' when...
A NHS group is encouraging parents to stop using stop terms such as "willy" and "front bottom" when referring to their children's private parts — because it is too confusing for toddlers to understand...
View ArticleCroydon Central set for General Election rematch as Labour...
The contest for Croydon Central in the 2017 General Election will be a rematch of the battle between the same Labour and Conservative candidates as two years ago, it has been confirmed. Labour has...
View ArticleNew smoking rules will ban types of cigarettes and tobacco by the...
New smoking laws are being introduced this month in a bid to cut down on the number of smokers.By the end of May a number of new rules and changes will have come into effect.As part of this result you...
View ArticleHow a hospice's new virtual reality treatment has a striking...
Fans of Charlie Brooker's Black Mirror are likely to recognise similarities in how a hospice has taken on a new approach to caring for terminally ill patients to an episode of the famous sci-fi series....
View ArticleWhy do pilots say 'Mayday, Mayday, Mayday' when disaster strikes?
It's May Day - or International Day of the Worker, depending on your politics - but did you know that the distress call of the same name, "Mayday, Mayday, Mayday" was actually invented in Croydon?The...
View ArticleFamily of missing New Addington teenager who has special needs...
The family of a teenage boy from New Addington with special needs who went missing two days ago are "very worried" for his safety because he left home with very little money and no phone to get back in...
View ArticleDisruption on trains between East Croydon and Gatwick due to...
Trains running through East Croydon and Gatwick Airport will be delayed or cancelled until 4pm today (May 1) due to engineering works not being finished on time.Planned overnight engineering work in...
View ArticleAmbulances turned away from Croydon University Hospital due to...
Ambulances had to be turned away from Croydon University Hospital on Monday night, due to a power failure at the hospital.Emergency generators had to be used in parts of the London Road hospital, and a...
View ArticleHunt for driver who failed to stop after crashing into horse near...
Police are searching for the driver of a car which hit a young woman riding her horse just outside New Addington on Sunday morning (April 30), injuring both horse and rider.Zoë Bullas, 21, was riding...
View ArticlePurley Way landmark store Wing Yip is about to nearly double in...
Work on a £15 million expansion to nearly double the size of Purley Way superstore Wing Yip has begun.As part of the work, a new cold warehouse, entrance lobby, larger shop floor and extra parking will...
View ArticleDriver of tram which derailed killing seven people has been...
A tram driver arrested after a tram derailed and killed seven people in Croydon last year has been rebailed by police.Alfred Dorris, 43, was arrested on suspicion of manslaughter when the tram he was...
View ArticleCroydon's Dingwall Road Job Centre evacuated after reports of a...
Up to 50 people were evacuated from the job centre in Dingwall Road this morning after reports of a nearby gas leak.Staff and visitors to the town centre job centre filed into the street after being...
View ArticleCroydon's Labour MP says borough should vote for the party...
A Croydon MP has said Labour "will endure" regardless of Jeremy Corbyn being in charge and that the borough's residents should back the party in the upcoming General Election whatever they think of the...
View Article13 people to face trial charged with attacking teenage asylum...
A total of 13 people will face trial charged with attacking a teenage asylum seeker in Croydon who was left in hospital for more than a week. Rekar Ahmed, 17, suffered a fractured eye socket, fractured...
View ArticleCroydon Council is running out of places to bury people
Croydon Council is running out of places to bury people, and is looking to Surrey for space.While there is sufficient burial land for the next few years, that space is quickly running out. Not for the...
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