Croydon

LOOK: Couple Sit Down To Eat Dinner In Middle Of London Road

Huffington Post UK | Posted 27.04.2013 | UK

A video of a couple sitting down to eat their evening meal in the middle of a busy road in Thornton Heath, South London has been viewed thousands of t...

PICTURE: Police Appeal For Missing 12-Year-Old Girl

PA | Posted 05.04.2013 | UK

Police have released a CCTV image of a 12-year-old girl who has been missing since Tuesday. Suada Gashi, of Lewisham, south London, was last seen l...

Man Accused Of Murdering Tia Sharp To Appear In Court

PA/The Huffington Post UK | Posted 08.03.2013 | UK

Stuart Hazell, the man accused of murdering 12-year-old Tia Sharp, will appear at the Old Bailey on Friday. The 37-year-old is due to appear in Cou...

Boris Pictured Walking Past Homeless Man As He Talks Of 'Vibrance And Glory' Of Croydon

PA/Huffington Post UK | Posted 30.01.2013 | UK Politics

Boris Johnson announced that £1bn will be pumped into Croydon on Thursday, in a redevelopment plan that will see a new Westfield set up in the South ...

'They'll Be No Christmas Without You'

PA | Posted 13.12.2012 | UK

The parents of a teenage girl who has been missing for five weeks have begged her to come home in time for Christmas. Lisa and Tony Pratt said ther...

Plea For Missing Teen Shelley Who Vanished Three Weeks Ago

PA/ The Huffington Post UK | Posted 30.11.2012 | UK

Parents of a 14-year-old girl missing for three weeks have begged her to come home, after it emerged she had previously been abducted for three days l...

Labour Wins By-Elections.. But Ukip Sees Jump In Votes

PA/The Huffington Post UK | Posted 30.11.2012 | UK Politics

Labour is celebrating a clean sweep in three parliamentary by-elections in Rotherham, Middlesbrough and Croydon North. But the celebrations were ma...

Cross Party Unity Sees Mental Health Bill Clear Critical Commons Stage

The Huffington Post UK | PA/The Huffington Post | Posted 14.09.2012 | UK Politics

A Bill which would outlaw MPs being disqualified from parliament if they are sectioned under the Mental Health Act has cleared a critical stage of the...

Family 'In Bits' Without Missing 12-Year-Old Schoolgirl

PA/The Huffington Post UK | Posted 09.08.2012 | UK

The uncle of missing schoolgirl Tia Sharp urged her to come home on Thursday and said her family was "in bits". David Sharp was speaking outside Ti...

Police Search Bins For Missing Schoolgirl Tia Sharp

PA/The Huffington Post UK | Posted 09.08.2012 | UK

Police were searching bins outside Tia Sharp's grandmother's house on Thursday as the hunt for the missing schoolgirl continues. It came as the Met...

Olympic Resources Diverted To Look For Missing 12-Year-Old

Posted 08.08.2012 | UK

Police said they had 80 officers trying to find missing Tia Sharp, as they revealed they had diverted Olympic resources to search for the 12-year-old....

London Riots One Year On - The 'Affluent' Areas And Their Tory MPs

The Huffington Post UK | Chris Wimpress | Posted 09.08.2012 | UK Politics

One aspect of the riots in London in August 2011 which made them distinct from previous moments of unrest was how they happened not just in poor inner...

Croydon - A Year On From the Riots

Gavin Barwell | Posted 06.10.2012 | UK Politics
Gavin Barwell

The world's attention is on London at the moment, as it was a year ago but for very different reasons. But how much has really changed since the riots that disfigured my town and other parts of the capital last August?

Just Find My Little Girl': Stepfather Of Missing 12-Year-Old's Plea

PA | Posted 07.08.2012 | UK

The stepfather of missing Tia Sharp screamed with emotion today: "Just find my little girl." David Niles, 29, said the family were "in bits" as the...

'Come Home. You're Not In Trouble': Family Search For Missing 12-Year-Old

PA | Posted 08.08.2012 | UK

The family of missing schoolgirl Tia Sharp have made an emotional plea for her to return home as the hunt for the youngster stretches into its fourth ...

PICTURES: Message Of Hope Covers Riot-Hit Shop

PA | Posted 06.08.2012 | UK

A furniture store which was fire-damaged in last year's riots has been covered in more than 4,000 images of young people holding positive statements. ...

Police Scour CCTV Tapes In Hunt For Clues Over Missing Girl

PA | Posted 05.10.2012 | UK

Detectives hunting for a missing 12-year-old girl are continuing to sift through hours of CCTV footage for a clue to her location. Tia Sharp, who h...

Disastrous Coach Trip Ends In POOnami After Excrement And Urine Floods Bus

Huffington Post UK | Felicity Morse | Posted 06.07.2012 | UK

A trip back from Weston-Super-Mare turned into a journey from hell for one Croydon family after the on-board toilet on the coach overflowed, flooding ...

Asylum Seeker Sparks Row After Council Claims 'Boy' Is An Adult

The Huffington Post UK | Lucy Sherriff | Posted 24.04.2012 | UK Universities & Education

An Afghan asylum seeker was taken out of his Croydon school and removed from his foster family after Italian authorities claimed the 15-year-old boy w...

Four Hurt In Explosion At Croydon Police Station (PICTURES)

PA | Posted 20.03.2012 | UK

Four builders were injured today in a "non-terrorist" explosion at a police station. The building in Croydon, south London, was evacuated after the...

'I Did It': Man Admits Starting Fire That Destroyed Family Business

PA/The Huffington Post UK | Posted 24.02.2012 | UK

Gordon Thompson has admitted starting a massive fire which destroyed a family-run furniture shop during the riots in London last summer. The 33-yea...

Alleged Arsonist Gordon Thompson 'Boasted He Set Fire to Furniture Store'

PA/Huffington Post UK | Posted 23.02.2012 | UK

Gordon Thompson, accused of starting a "catastrophic" fire at a 144-year-old furniture shop, allegedly boasted about causing the blaze, which was so f...

Man In Court Over Riots Blaze That Destroyed Family Furniture Shop

PA | Posted 22.02.2012 | UK

A man appeared in court on Wednesday accused of starting a fire that destroyed a family furniture shop during the riots last year. Gordon Thompson,...

Janitor Suspended Over 'School Sex Pictures'

Huffington Post UK | Lucy Sherriff | Posted 16.02.2012 | UK Universities & Education

A school caretaker has been suspended from his job after explicit sex pictures involving a former colleague were reportedly found on a school computer...

Diane Abbott Is Innocent

David Schneider | Posted 06.03.2012 | UK Comedy
David Schneider

Three reasons why Diane Abbott's tweet was not racist...