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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

More than four years after the brutal murder of Lavaun Witter, who was killed with a Samurai sword, the men responsible have been sentenced. On February 5 2021, 22-year-old Lavaun Witter was fatally ...

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NON-LEAGUE NEWS: Both local clubs are onto their fourth managers of the season, which at Mayfield Road has signalled a chance for consolidation, while at Croydon Arena there’s still all to play for in ...

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The fix is in. Council planning officials who describe the ‘harm’ that 220 retirement flats would do to Purley have still recommended approval ahead of a committee meeting next week. And there could ...

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.