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The Chairman of Croydon Athletic football club has been found dead with a bullet wound to the head. The body of David Le Cluse, age 44, was discovered on Saturday in a Sutton garage. The Isthmian League club is struggling for financial survival, and was …

New – Street-View-Kew. Now we know where Alastair Campbell gets his one liners from…. Meet the Camden doctor fined for parking on his own land. Art or cricket? Michael Vaughan has a new exhibition at Harrods. Climate camp is coming back to town this weekend. …

After promising that the ground’s name won’t be changing, MCC have released pictures of what the £400 million redevelopment of Lord’s cricket ground will look like. A series of plans (PDF) depict new stands that mesh nicely with the UFO-like Media Centre, increasing the capacity …

The mania for re-naming stadia after corporate sponsors (cf: the new Spurs ground, Stamford Bridge, sportsdirect.com@St James’ Park) won’t spread to the verdant greens of Lord’s cricket ground. Despite needing to raise hundreds of million of pounds for a refurbishment of the ground, owner MCC …

In search of London’s best sandwich since sliced bread Having Haddin-uff of Cook-ing for ourselves and eating nothing but straightforward sandwiches, we decided to celebrate England’s victory over Australia in the Ashes by Broad-ening our horizons and having a bash at a burger instead, rather …

For those unable to get a ticket for The Oval, it was the next best thing: the crowds descended upon Regent’s Park on Saturday to watch the tail end of the final Ashes series of 2009 on a giant video screen. A sense of optimism …

Stormy days at The Oval by The Kruger Kid Wanna watch the final Ashes Test at the Oval but don’t fancy forking out for a Sky Sports subscription? The three London locations that have broadcast every ball of the 2009 series thus far will be …

View from Lord’s media centre by the payne The first Ashes test begins today, but what with television rights to the series now gobbled up entirely by Sky, those without a subscription to Murdoch’s empire are sh*t out of luck when it comes to watching …

Picture via manuel | MC’s Flickrstream These days the back pages of newspapers are as likely to be full of stories about anti-doping measures, sponsorship, lottery funding, event bidding, video streaming, third party player ownership and points deductions as they are about sporting events themselves …

This Week In London’s History Monday – 8th September 1915: During the first bombing raid on London of the First World War, a Zeppelin drops incendiary bombs near Fenchurch Street. Tuesday – 9th September 1960: Hugh John Mungo Grant is born in Hammersmith. He would …