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Tag Archives: Streatham
Police make murder case appeal: Where is Jordan Vincent?
‘We just want justice for Rijkaard’ says mother of the victim of brutal gang attack on Surrey Street Market two years ago It was on this day two years ago that Rijkaard Siafa was the target of a vicious knife … Continue reading
Posted in Crime, Knife crime, London-wide issues, Policing, Surrey Street
Tagged Croydon, David Walcott, Drug gangs, Fellmongers Yard, Guinness, Jordan Vincent, knife crime, Machete murder, Metropolitan Police, murder, Norbury, Rammon Mali, Rijkaard Salu Siafa, Rijkaard Siafa, spread eagle, Streatham, Surrey Street, Surrey Street Market, youth knife crime
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Streatham Common Kite Day is coming back on May 10
After a hiatus in 2025, the Streatham Kite Day is back in 2026, this year being staged on Sunday, May 10, from 11am to 5pm. The event is London’s only free family-friendly kite festival, and combines world-class kite displays with … Continue reading
TfL to begin 18-month road works on Streatham Hill from Aug 4
TfL is due to begin major road works on a scheme intended to make the A23 Streatham Hill “safer and better for residents and visitors”, the transport authority said today. The scheme will create new pedestrian crossings, a protected cycling route and … Continue reading
Posted in Commuting, Cycling, Lambeth Council, Streatham and Croydon North, TfL, Transport
Tagged A23, Brixton Bus Garage, Brixton Hill, Lambeth council, South Circular, Streatham, Streatham High Road, Streatham Hill, Streatham Hill Station, Streatham Wells LTN, TfL, Transport for London, Will Norman
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Water supplies returning to normal after Mitcham burst main
Thames Water say that supplies to households affected by yesterday’s burst water main in Mitcham should be back to normal today. Thousands of homes and businesses in postcodes CR0, CR2, CR4, CR7 and SW16 were affected by the supply outage … Continue reading
Posted in Mitcham, Thames Water
Tagged Croydon, Mitcham, Norbury, Streatham, Thames Water, Thornton Heath
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Five postcodes affected by burst water main in Mitcham
A burst water main in Mitcham this morning disrupted water supplies to households across five postcodes in Croydon and Streatham. Croydon Council described the burst main as “a major incident”. The water main burst was on Commonside East, near Mitcham … Continue reading
Police search continues for third man at Surrey Street killing
A £10,000 reward is on offer for information that leads to the conviction of Jordan Vincent, after two of the killers of Rijkaard Siafa are handed life sentences for murder Two of the three men accused of the vicious murder … Continue reading
Posted in Crime, Knife crime, London-wide issues, Policing, Surrey Street
Tagged Croydon, David Walcott, Drug gangs, Fellmongers Yard, Guinness, knife crime, Machete murder, Metropolitan Police, murder, Norbury, Rammon Mali, Rijkaard Salu Siafa, Rijkaard Siafa, spread eagle, Streatham, Surrey Street, Surrey Street Market, youth knife crime
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Hills and history around the margins of the parish of Streatham
That august group of people, the Streatham Society, is staging a Beating the Bounds walk on Saturday May 24, which promises to be full of history, and some hills. “Beating the Bounds” an ancient custom that involves walking the boundaries … Continue reading
Posted in Education, History, Norbury, Streatham and Croydon North, Walks
Tagged Beating the Bounds, History, Norbury, River Graveney, Streatham, Streatham Society
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Labour polling shows MP Reed more unpopular than Starmer
A survey published this week shows that the Streatham and Croydon North MP is one of the least popular figures in the government – and that’s among his own party’s supporters. By WALTER CRONXITE, Political Editor Bad news for Steve … Continue reading
They stabbed Siafa 13 times and then strolled off to the pub
Late on a sunny April afternoon last year, David Walcott and Rammon Mali, together with a third man, strolled down Surrey Street, still busy at the end of the market day, then crossed Croydon High Street and popped into the … Continue reading
Posted in Crime, Knife crime, London-wide issues, Policing, Surrey Street
Tagged Croydon, David Walcott, Drug gangs, Fellmongers Yard, Guinness, knife crime, Machete murder, Metropolitan Police, murder, Norbury, Rammon Mali, Rijkaard Salu Siafa, Rijkaard Siafa, spread eagle, Streatham, Surrey Street, Surrey Street Market, youth knife crime
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Third day of water shortages after Crystal Palace burst main
Thousands of homes and businesses, including 11 care homes and 29 schools, in the Streatham, Penge and Sydenham areas are without water or enduring low water pressure for a third day today, following a burst water main in Crystal Palace … Continue reading
Streatham drug dealers jailed for importing gun from Florida
Drug dealers McNeil Colly and Keston Redhead, who tried to buy a handgun by mail order, have been jailed following a National Crime Agency investigation. The Taurus self-loading pistol was seized by Border Force officers at Stansted Airport in July … Continue reading
Posted in Crime, Knife crime
Tagged Cocaine, Drugs gangs, Gun crime, knife crime, marijuana, McNeil Colly, Metropolitan Police, National Crime Agency, NCA, Streatham
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TfL confirms it will axe 118 bus route despite public opposition
From February, Transport for London will be withdrawing the 118 route, which runs from Brixton to Morden via Streatham, Streatham Park and Mitcham. The decision has been made following a public consultation in which, even TfL admits, there was overwhelming … Continue reading
Posted in Commuting, TfL, Transport
Tagged 118 bus route, 45 bus route, 59 bus route, Brixton, Camberwell Green, Elephant and Castle, Mitcham, Morden, Streatham, TfL, Transport for London
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Streatham Common’s protected view under threat from tower
Activists in Norbury and Streatham are halfway to a fund-raising target to meet legal costs to consider a possible challenge to planning permission for a 14-storey tower which locals fear will destroy forever one of the finest views in all … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Community associations, Environment, Housing, Lambeth Council, London-wide issues, Norbury, Planning, Sadiq Khan, Streatham and Croydon North
Tagged Friends of Streatham Common, Lambeth, Lambeth council, Streatham, Streatham and Croydon North, Streatham Common, Woodgate Tower
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Catch an early glimpse of rally’s veteran cars on Pall Mall
It’s the annual London to Brighton veteran car rally this Sunday morning, when more than 100 old bangers set off from Hyde Park heading for the coast at Brighton, passing through Streatham, Norbury and Thornton Heath, trundling under the Croydon … Continue reading
Railway lines closed across south London for signalling works
There will be significant disruption to rail services across south London, starting this weekend and continuing through to November 1, for engineering works. There will be no Southern, Thameslink or London Overground trains in the Peckham Rye, Tulse Hill, Crystal … Continue reading
Posted in Commuting, East Croydon, Norwood Junction, TfL, Transport, West Croydon
Tagged Crystal Palace, London Overground, Network Rail, Southern, Southern Rail, Streatham, Thameslink
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Kaba’s gang past revealed after officer ‘not guilty’ of murder
One thing that the not-guilty verdict, delivered by an Old Bailey jury yesterday in the controversial case of the police shooting of Chris Kaba, failed to provide was any clarity. For while Kaba’s grieving family and friends protested last night … Continue reading
All change! TfL to axe 118 Streatham to Morden bus route
Transport for London has today started a consultation on three bus routes, which is likely to affect journeys in and around Streatham and Morden, and will see the end of the 118.
Posted in Commuting, Streatham and Croydon North, TfL, Transport
Tagged 118 bus route, 45 bus route, Morden, Streatham, Streatham Vale, TfL, Transport for London
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Tracks works will see 9 days of disruption near Crystal Palace
Network Rail is to carry out track repair works in the Crystal Palace area for nine days from August 24 until September 1, with Thameslink and Southern disrupted. Passengers are being advised to “plan ahead” during the “major track upgrade”, … Continue reading
Posted in Commuting, Norwood Junction, Transport, West Croydon
Tagged Crystal Palace, Network Rail, Norwood Junction, Southern, Streatham, Streatham Hill, Thameslink, West Croydon
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Streatham sex offender jailed for importing banned drug GBL
A man from Streatham has been jailed for seven years after an investigation into the importation and distribution online of gamma-Butyrolactone, the drug GBL. Ricardo MacQueen De Aguiar, 36, of Hopton Road, Streatham, was sentenced at Croydon Crown Court last … Continue reading
Posted in Crime
Tagged gamma-Butyrolactone, GBL, Metropolitan Police, Ricardo MacQueen De Aguiar, Streatham
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Three people rescued from house in Streatham Park blaze
Three people trapped by fire were rescued to safety from a house in Streatham Park in the early hours of this morning – the Fire Brigade remarking at the difficulty of their operation because of the way the three-storey building … Continue reading
Picnics, beer and flying: Streatham Common Kite Day is back
The 23rd Streatham Common Kite Day will take place on Sunday May 12. From 11am to 5pm, London’s only free family-friendly kite festival combines world-class kite displays with the opportunity to fly your own.
Raman Subba Row: OW who saved Surrey and changed cricket
There will be a strange, sad, empty space on a bench near the boundary of the Old Whitgiftians’ Croham Road cricket ground in South Croydon this summer. It is a spot where Raman Subba Row used to sit in the … Continue reading
Posted in Cricket, Surrey CCC, Whitgift School
Tagged cricket, Croham Road, ECB, Jim Laker, Lord's, MCC, Old Whitgiftians, OWs, Peter May, Raman Subba Row, South Croydon, Streatham, Surrey, Surrey CCC, Surrey County Cricket Club, TCCB, Test and County Cricket Board, The Oval, Whitgift School
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