NEWS Shopper has teamed up with Ellen Kent and Opera International to give readers the chance to win some fabulous prizes to celebrate their latest lavish productions. Strauss's Die Fledermaus is being staged at Croydon's Fairfield Halls on October 6
PEOPLE will either love or hate The Puppini Sisters' debut album, Betcha Bottom Dollar. What the Mediaeval Baebes do with early music and the Opera Babes do with, well, opera, the Puppinis do with songs from the 1940s by the likes of the Andrews Sisters
A CARER who suffers from depression has gone missing, leaving his disabled wife on her own. Police are growing increasingly concerned for the welfare of Steven Paul Barrett, 59, from Perivale, who disappeared on Sunday, September 10. His relatives last
TWO men have been arrested after a sex attack in Gravesend. Police are appealing for witnesses after a 34-year-old woman was attacked in Milton Park yesterday evening. The woman was walking her dog through the park at 8.30pm when she saw two men sitting
POLICE are appealing for witnesses to a shooting in the early hours of Monday morning. The incident took place at around 1am outside an address in Palace Grove, Bromley. A white male, aged about 30 years, with a gunshot wound was taken to the Princess
A BUS ploughed into a wall outside Dartford Magistrates' Court yesterday afternoon. The Arriva bus crashed into a wall surrounding a block of flats outside Dartford Magistrates' Court. The smash happened at 2pm just after the bus pulled away from its
POLICE have found the missing kitchen knife that killed special constable Nisha Patel-Nasri, complete with DNA of the killer on it. Mrs Patel-Nasri, 29, was alone, in her night dress and carrying a torch when she was stabbed to death outside her Wembley
SERVICES were disrupted today after a man was struck and killed by a train. The man is thought to have jumped in front of a train from a platform at Beckenham Junction station at 6.19am. British Transport Police attended the incident and are treating
TUBE passengers have been left frustrated after the Waterloo and City line was suspended this morning - just a day after re-opening following five months of upgrade works. Line operators Metronot promised the £40 million works would mean a more reliable
This is your last chance to see the critically acclaimed The Voysey Inheritance at the National Theatre. A thoroughly modern, compelling story of greed and corruption. Bursting with fine performances, this is a hugely satisfying play which has much to
THE number of people diagnosed with asthma has almost doubled in the past year. A total of 970 patients have been diagnosed with the respiratory condition in the past two years. From August 2004 to July last year, there were 327 new cases discovered
THE extent of criminal activity in and around a notorious nightclub has been laid bare in a police report. Between March and August this year 324 crimes were recorded within a 250m radius of the Venue Nightclub, Clifton Rise, New Cross, of which 52 were
A "MANIAC" who broke into a house and stabbed two people in a fit of jealous rage has escaped a life sentence. Instead, Martin Walker, 27, of Allingham Close, Hanwell, was jailed for ten years at Harrow Crown Court after he climbed through a window of
IF London's suburbs were apples, many of them would be bruised and past their sell-by date, a leading consultant in urban studies has warned. Speaking at a London Assembly meeting, Dr Nicholas Falk, director of the Urban and Economic Development Group
A father of three is recovering in hospital after being stabbed on his doorstep as he tried to protect his son from a gang. Andrew Gayfer, 46, is in Darent Valley Hospital, Dartford, following the attack in the early hours of yesterday. His wife
CRASH investigators are probing the cause of a bus accident in Barnehurst on Monday in which six passengers were injured. The 229 bus was travelling along Erith Road towards Erith, at about 2.40pm when it crashed into a lamppost near the junction of
The cash fare for a single zone 1 Tube trip will soar from £3 to £4 next year, while the cash fare for a single bus will rise to £2 - a 33 per cent increase. In a move designed to let people switch from cash to the Oyster smartcard, Oyster fares for
In a step that made legal history, four men have faced charges over a suspected attempt to recruit a cell of British suicide bombers. One of the men, 22-year-old Yassin Mutegombwa, is accused of "receiving training for terrorism" - a UK first. Prosecutors
