Man arrested on suspicion of possession and cultivation of drugs

Police carried out a drugs warrant at a house in Stoneleigh Road, Carshalton, on Tuesday, 9 August. Officers knocked on the door to gain entry. During a thorough search of the premises officers found a number of foil parcels containing suspected cannabis in a child’s lunch box inside the house and a single cannabis plant […]

Police find cannabis under the bed after search of flat

​Police carried out a drugs warrant at a flat in Woodside Road, Sutton, on Tuesday, 9 August. Officers forced entry to the address and carried out a thorough search of the premises. They seized a quantity of suspected herbal cannabis from under a bed and a bag of suspected heroin hidden near a window. A […]

Don’t miss the chance of a free guided history walk of town centre

Last summer a series of guided history walks of Sutton Town Centre proved very popular with residents, visitors and businesses. This year Enjoy Sutton is giving people another chance to find out about the fascinating history of the town centre by offering the walk again. The award winning historic walks will cover the origins and […]

Imagine yourself as a volunteer in this year’s festival of arts

Imagine Festival of the Arts returns to Sutton, south west London, during October 2016 with a range of great events and shows that are certain to delight audiences. Between 15 and 30 October 2016 the borough will play host to the terrific BrickBox time-travel disco, a scintillating new sound installation from Output Arts, and Pint […]

Mental health trusts will be rated on the quality of the care

​​Every mental health trust will soon be rated as CQC completes first inspections People will soon have access to detailed information about the quality and safety of every NHS mental health trust in England, including where improvements are needed, as the regulator announces that it has now inspected all of them using it new regulatory […]

Mental health trusts will be rated on the quality of the care

​​Every mental health trust will soon be rated as CQC completes first inspections People will soon have access to detailed information about the quality and safety of every NHS mental health trust in England, including where improvements are needed, as the regulator announces that it has now inspected all of them using it new regulatory […]

Are you an IMPACT award winner – you could win £40,000

The GSK IMPACT Awards (in partnership with the Kings Fund) rewards charities doing excellent work to improve people’s health. up to ten winders will receive £30,000 plus an overall winner will receive an extra £40,000 up to ten runners-up will receive £3,000. Award winners will also be offered free training and development valued at up […]

Lottery Fund will support work on final tranche of glass plates

​Thousands of photographic glass-plate negatives of Edwardian women from the early 1900s are to be conserved after Sutton Council secured a grant of £95,500 from the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF). Thanks to National Lottery players, the final tranche of more than 10,000 images of Edwardian women will be cleaned, digitised, researched, catalogued and made available […]

Top comic Andrew to perform at The Backdoor at The Secombe

Andrew Lawrence is coming to Sutton with his latest tour entitled The Hate Speech Tour. A regular on the UK comedy scene’s is, back with an all new show full of morally repugnant, borderline criminal material in the very poorest taste. No laugh too cheap. ‘With every passing minute of his set, ‘Uncensored’, you marvel […]

Top UK comic Jeremy Hardy on the road into Sutton

Jeremy Hardy is in his 4th decade as a stand-up this year. That’s a more dramatic way of saying he started 32 years ago and, without a lottery win, probably has at least another 32 years to go. In 2014, the tenth series of Jeremy Hardy Speaks to the Nation was broadcast on Radio 4. […]