Firefighters have issued a smoking safety reminder following a fire at a shop with flats on Brighton Road in Coulsdon yesterday. Half of the roof of the building was damaged by fire. Three people left ...

Since Croydon’s Conservative Mayor Jason Perry was elected in 2022, there have been just four successful prosecutions brought by the council for criminal fly-tipping in the borough. That’s according ...

SUNDAY SUPPLEMENT: One of the foremost British writers of the 20th Century enjoyed his most productive period when living in Croydon. You never know what gems or treasures you might find browsing in ...

CROYDON COMMENTARY: Ahead of the council’s more-heat-than-light annual Budget meetings that begin this week, PETER UNDERWOOD highlights how the councillors of one party at the Town Hall have ...

An MP has been joined by an organisation representing 150 voluntary groups and a rivers charity in calling for punitive “polluter pays” fines for whoever was responsible for this week’s massively ...

CROYDON IN CRISIS: As government bails out cash-strapped council with record amount as part of £1.5bn provided across 30 local authorities in England, the borough’s elected Mayor was out on the piss.

INSIDE SUTTON: It was only a matter of time before Sutton’s incinerator supporters tried to make capital out of a rival party’s councillor’s wanderlust. By our political correspondent, BELLE MONT ...

Sixth formers at St Mark’s Church of England Academy in Mitcham achieved well above expectations in their A-levels last year, according to statistics released by the Department for Education. The ...

Housing correspondent, BARRATT HOLMES, looks at a planning application for a £75m scheme that the developers hoped you might never notice What do you mean, you had no idea that there have been plans ...

Jeremy Corbyn says rapper’s ads are allowing McDonald’s to ‘culture-wash their reputation as caterers of genocide in Gaza’ Stormzy is facing a backlash from fans, and Jeremy Corbyn, all over a box of ...

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More than a decade after the German supermarket chain paid £2million for the Good Companions pub at Hamsey Green, Lidl are primed to submit a revised planning application for the long-derelict site at ...