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A businessman dubbed the Wolf of Essex has been jailed for masterminding a £1.3million Ponzi fraud in which a gang posed as TV characters to con scores of victims of their life savings.

Acclaimed chef Scott Hallsworth brings Joe’s Oriental Diner back to London this week, opening at 1 Ramsden Road, Balham, in the former home of his cult restaurant Freak Scene.

The local policing team is inviting residents and interested parties to join them at their next Ward Panel Meeting at the beginning of October.

A Croydon councillor has called on the Labour government to “do the right thing” and act urgently against addictive adult gambling centres, after the council’s licensing sub-committee granted an application for a slot machine shop on Westow Hill in the Crystal Palace Triangle to stay open 24 hour

That confidence-shaker forms much of the basis of his current stand-up tour Tilting at Windmills, as does the TS Eliot poem The Wasteland, which came about as a theme after he joined a less than wonderful walking tour based on the epic, but maybe bonkers, work of 434 lines.

This afternoon (Sat 19th Sept) there’s a mini market stall event taking place at the Brixton Streetwear unit in Brixton Village/Granville Arcade.

The market gives the opportunity for young artists to sell their streetwear pieces that they’ve been working on for the past few weeks.

If you want to give your pooch a fun-packed day of splashing about in the water, sniffing other dogs’ nether regions while listening to – and we kid you not – ‘dog friendly DJs’ – then check out the upcoming Doggy Splash Days at Streatham Common Paddling Pool.

The bookseller has announced plans to open a new store in the Broadway Shopping Centre, located at 72-73 Broadway, this autumn, expanding its presence across south London.

Inderjeet Singh, from Streatham, has spent years hoping to land his dream car and has now won a Mercedes-AMG G63 and a cash prize courtesy of BOTB's weekly online Dream Car Competition.