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From 7 am this morning East London Lines voters decide who will be the next Mayor of London and the political make-up of the Greater London Assembl...

Local businesses that suffered from the disturbances during the riots in August will have until the new year to claim emergency funding. Communitie...

A new organisation in Croydon that collects food waste will allow thousands of pumpkins to be recycled after the upcoming Halloween festivities thi...

A man who lied to be a qualified doctor and has been working for the NHS in Lewisham for nearly a decade has been sentenced to 27 months imprisonme...

As the Olympics are approaching, a plaque has been unveiled this week, in an honour of a past hero Olympic silver medallist and five-time record ho...

Croydon locals are getting increasingly frustrated with the council’s rubbish and recycling schedule. Following the schedule change from weekly t...

TV personality Kirstie Allsopp was picking up litter in Croydon yesterday as part of the Love Where You Live (LWYL) campaign. The LWYL campaign, st...

One week after the vandalization of the £10.000 street art project at Norwood Junction, two local artists reveal a new art project in what is loca...

Boy band ‘The Risk’ have made it through to the next round of the X Factor and are now the bookie’s favourites to win after a well re...

Sherlock Holmes author, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, lived and worked in  Norwood.  Now a book about this period of his life has  won a literary priz...

Two young men from South East London are rising to fame after making it through to ‘The X Factor’s’ final 12. Ashley John-Baptiste, 22, f...

  Street art at Norwood Junction Station underpass was vandalised last week, just after a £10.000 makeover. Last week vandals ripped and tagg...

Lesbian campaigner, Sue Sanders, is encouraging schools in Croydon to promote gay and lesbian rights in order to combat the issue of homophobia and...

Brighton road in  the centre of  Coulsdon has been named by charity, Living Streets, as one of the most improved streets in London. This will be ...

Carol Overington and Angelia Jordan. Photo: Sophia Ignatidou Gary Cansell continues his report on life behind the scenes in a south London funeral ...

Gary Cansell continues his report on life behind the scenes in a south London funeral directors Perched on high heels, Jordan and Overington both w...

An 18-year-old looter from Croydon who admitted to the City of Westminster Magistrates breaking into a Crystal Palace jewellery shop during Augus...

“People think you’ve either got to be sick or not all there to work with dead people,” says Carol Overington. “As soon as you say you’re ...

Almost two months after the disturbances that wreaked havoc in various London boroughs, a former judge leading the inquiry into the Croydon riots, ...

UPDATED: 12.06pm With yesterday’s tyre factory fire still smoking, motorists in Croydon face another day of disruption due to a huge oil spi...

UPDATED: 10.27am Firefighters have been tackling a blaze at a tyre factory on Purley Way, Croydon, since the early hours of this morning (September...

The new borough commander for Croydon has been named as Chief Superintendant Dave Musker. Musker’s predecessor, Chief Superintendant Adrian Rob...

 A missing woman from Croydon has been found today. Sarah Lloyd, 37, from Purley, had been missing since August 30. Officers yesterday appeale...

Police in Croydon have issued an appeal about a missing Croydon woman. Sarah Lloyd, 37, from Purley, has been missing since August 30, and was last...

After carrying out a series of dawn raids on Thursday last week, police in Croydon have arrested five men between the ages of 16 and 26 on the susp...

After nine years and four planning applications, permission has been given for a controversial housing development in Croydon against the wishes of...

The mother of a footballer from Croydon who was brutally attacked in Greece three years ago is continuing her campaign for victims’ rights in Eur...

A police officer has been sentenced to a year and a half in prison for the assault on a man in Croydon, over two years ago. Police Constable Edward...

A man appeared at Croydon Magistrates Court, on September 3, charged with the murder of Jonathan Barnes from Lewisham. Daniel Tesfay, 25, of no fix...

Malcolm Wicks, MP for Croydon North, has called for an enquiry into the riots which engulfed the borough and other parts of London earlier this mon...