The new process will allow critical workers to carry on with their jobs even if identified as a contact of a coronavirus case.

Families of the seven killed in the Croydon tram crash have branded the ruling an “absolute farce”.

Eight barber shops in Croydon will offer free blood pressure tests to their clientele in the hopes of diagnosing high blood pressure among men in the borough.

Parents who allow their kids to get sunburnt should be fined, one expert has told Good Morning Britain viewers.

There are delays on trains from East Croydon today after a person was hit.

Tyler Cruickshank joined Love Island as a bombshell, but where is he from, what’s his job and how old is he?

A charity for blind people has called for the sale of e-scooters to be banned in London after a three-year-old suffered life changing injuries, a day after the death of a Bromley teen.

Retailers are under “increasing pressure” to keep shelves fully stocked amid staff shortages, industry bosses have warned.

Horsefly season is here - here's what to do if you get bitten.

Forecasters correctly predicted the heatwave in July which forced Public Health England to issue a heat health alert this week.

Met Police reveal London's most wanted people.

Experts have said face masks and working from home could return by mid August after warning of another deadly pandemic peak.

Lambeth Council has hired a firm that was fined £250,000 for failing to protect an employee.

A seven-year-old brought a knife into a Croydon primary school because he “wanted to stab another boy at an after-school club”, according to reports.

A Croydon estate agent has joined the Love Island villa, hoping to find love and possibly Reality TV fame on the hit show.

The Croydon tram crash inquest has seen a jury return a verdict of accident.

Plans to demolish a Home Office immigration centre and transform it into a 27-storey office block have been approved.

A man has died after a stabbing incident near Brixton tube station in south London.

Sadiq Khan will provide additional funding to revitalise London’s high streets in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic.

A Croydon man has been named locally as the victim of a fatal stabbing in Brixton on Wednesday (July 21).

Police in Surrey have renewed their appeal for information after a man attempted to abduct a school girl in Addlestone last month.

WITH most legal restrictions on social contact being lifted in England, we visited a supermarket on Sutton High Street to see whether people were still following restrictions.

Firefighters were called to a house fire on Moffat Road in Thornton Heath in the early hours of this morning.

A single mum has told how water runs down the walls of her Croydon flat when it rains.

With this year’s summer of sport in full swing, a Croydon social enterprise is supporting the borough’s next generation of athlete talent. 

Parkside Private Hospital in Wimbledon has launched a new Post-Covid Service to assess and diagnose patients suffering long-term effects from the coronavirus disease.

A fire has broken out in London Road, Mitcham this morning. Follow the blog for live updates.

Four fire engines and around 25 firefighters were called to a flat fire on Devonshire Avenue in Sutton.

Nearly 1,000 people in Sutton are owed a council tax refund.

No 10 have issued an update after a minister said it was a decision for individuals whether they should isolate after a “ping” from the app.

Another weather warning has been issued across south London as heavy thunderstorms are forecast to break up the heatwave this weekend.

A fake gem expert swapped diamonds worth £4.2 million for garden pebbles using "sleight of hand" in a theft from a luxury jewellers, a court has heard.

Market traders in Croydon will have to pay 30 per cent more to operate at Surrey Street Market.

A branch of the Nationwide building society in Streatham has been closed to the public this week amid an allegation of a staff member testing positive for Covid-19.

An estate agent from Croydon has been announced as one of the three new contestants for ITV2's hit Love Island show.

The US Special Envoy for Climate John Kerry gave a dire warning to the world over the urgency of addressing the climate crisis in a speech at Kew Gardens yesterday (Tuesday, July 20).

AN urgent warning to holidaymakers who have passports due to expire has been issued - as passengers fall foul of changes to the rules.

Sutton Council have agreed to carry out an independent review of the Sutton Decentralised Energy Network (SDEN) following claims about its financial sustainability.

A MIDWIFE from Sutton has been gifted with a free cruise following her 'extraordinary' work during the coronavirus crisis.

Seven people have been arrested in an operation that police think may have “significantly disrupted” a people smuggling network.

Rotherhithe Tunnel and Vauxhall Bridge need “urgent” upgrades in the next five years.

Firefighters were called out to more fires in Croydon last year, figures reveal.

The Met Office issued its first “amber extreme heat warning” as parts of the UK reached sizzling temperatures and now dog owners are being warned.

A golf course and scout hut are set to be sold off by Croydon Council in a bid to save money.

A motorist has pleaded not guilty to causing the death of a young mother who was knocked down while on a “rare night out”.

What are the rules on sunbathing naked in your own garden?

More flood alerts have been issued across south London amid expected thunderstorms just eight days after previous flooding hit the capital.

We're currently in the midst of a baking spell of weather, with London blessed with some scorching temperatures over the weekend and into the week, but when is this hot streak going to end.

A yellow warning is in place across south London, with thunderstorms forecast as sweltering temperatures continue to climb.

Supermarket chains Tesco, Sainsbury's, Asda, Lidl and Aldi have provided an update on the face mask rules for shoppers.