A drunken row over page three girls ended in a Sanderstead man setting fire to his home while his wife and daughter were asleep upstairs. Jonathan Walker, 39, of Princes Avenue, pleaded guilty to arson at Croydon Crown Court last Friday. Prosecutor
A BUS driver was repeatedly branded with an iron and forced to play Russian roulette during a 'merciless' five-day kidnap ordeal, a court heard. Gabriel Dugbo's family were made to listen to his screams of agony over the telephone while the gang demanded
Asda has been fined almost £18,000 after pleading guilty to selling food contaminated by mice at its store in Beddington Lane, south London. The supermarket chain admitted three food law offences at a hearing at Sutton Magistrates' Court last Thursday
Police are appealing for witnesses after a pedestrian was hit by a van in Leatherhead after the driver deliberately tried to spray the victim with water from a puddle. The victim, a 45-year-old man, was standing with a friend at a mini roundabout at
A gang of five gunmen fired at another car in a high-speed shoot-out along the A1 in Mill Hill last Saturday night. At around 10.10pm, shots were fired from an Audi A4 estate at a blue BMW 3 Series saloon as the two cars dodged traffic in the main road
A South Croydon pub regular fed up with jibes about his sexuality ran after a barmaid and hit her with a piece of wood. Croydon Crown Court heard last Friday that Philip McHugo, who has been a regular at the Folly pub since the 1970s, caused serious
It smells awful and may even frighten your pet moggy, but Chessington World of Adventures is already attracting interest by auctioning off a year's supply of tiger poo. Excrement from the zoo's two tigers is on sale on the ebay internet auction site
A FATHER-OF-FOUR from Amersham has been named as one of 14 military men killed in the RAF Nimrod aircrash in Afghanistan. Flight Sergeant Adrian "Ady" Davies, 49, was killed when the plane crashed on Saturday near Kandahar. In a statement from the Ministry
