The cause of a fire in a Norbury takeaway is under investigation after the kitchen was partly destroyed by the blaze. Firefighters were called to London Road in Norbury at 5.30pm yesterday (April 17) ...

Retail staff on a South London high street say shoplifting is worse than it’s ever been, saying they don’t even bother calling police sometimes because they feel nothing will be done. Workers in a ...

Born the youngest of three boys, sons of a single parent, a mother who had lost a fourth son (from meningitis) and a husband (from tuberculosis), I was just eight when the war started. We were what ...

The fire spread to the gardens of some nearby houses Police have said they are treating a large fire in south London as arson and have released images of a man they want to talk to. Dozens of homes ...

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