Residents evacuated after a gas explosion in south London which killed a four-year-old girl are being allowed to return to their homes.

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A shopping centre in Croydon has been evacuated after a car fire.

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A PERSON is in hospital and 150 others were evacuated after a car fire at a shopping centre in Croydon.

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A 23-year-old man has appeared at the Old Bailey accused of killing a man who was found collapsed in the street.

A second man has been charged with murder and another has been arrested after police discovered a body in a Croydon street.

Residents forced to evacuate from their homes following a fatal explosion in south London have claimed the local gas provider “has blood on their hands”.

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A suspected gas explosion in a London suburb that killed a four-year-old girl was “an accident waiting to happen”, neighbours have said.

The four-year-old girl who died in a gas explosion in Thornton Heath has been pictured for the first time.

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POLICE have confirmed the name of a victim who was killed after a house explosion in Thornton Heath.

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The mother of a four-year-old girl who died in a gas explosion in south London has paid tribute to her “amazing” daughter and questioned why the “gas problem has been neglected for such a long time”.

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The Met Office has issued an amber extreme heat warning with temperatures expected to hit more than 30 degrees.

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A young girl killed in a gas explosion in south London has been named locally as Sahara Salman as the community demanded answers over her “unnecessary” death.

DEVASTATING pictures show the aftermath of a gas explosion at a house in Croydon.

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A young girl killed in a gas explosion in south London has been named locally as Sahara Salman.

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A man has been charged with murder after police discovered a body in a Croydon street.

Over 115,000 Royal Mail postal workers will stage a series of strikes in the coming weeks amid a pay dispute.

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The end of this week is set to swing into another full-fledged heatwave, with a four-day amber warning for extreme temperatures from the UK Health Security Agency.

Police are concerned for the welfare of a missing 13-year-old girl who is believed to be with her mum.

The cordon near to a house that collapsed in Thornton Heath after an explosion and fire has been enlarged.

Dame Lynne Owens has been appointed the interim deputy commissioner of the Metropolitan Police.

Police say they have searched houses and parks, viewed hundreds of hours of CCTV and conducted door-to-door enquiries - but Owami Davies is still missing.

THAMES WATER has confirmed it will introduce a temporary hosepipe ban for London "in the coming weeks.”

Police are asking the public to call 999 if an 81-year-old woman missing in Croydon is seen.

Residents of a road where an explosion killed a child have described sensing a “time bomb” in the days beforehand due to the headache-inducing stench of gas in their homes.

The Met Office has issued an amber extreme heat warning with temperatures expected to build through the week.

Emergency services have stated there has been “no update” about the house explosion in Thornton Heath.

Temperatures are set to reach mid 30's towards the end of the week.

Children have written touching tributes in chalk on the ground near the scene where a young girl died following an explosion in Croydon.

The two strikes will coincide, leaving commuters to expect travel chaos across the region.