Green fingered community groups, residents and businesses celebrated success at the Merton in Bloom awards ceremony on 18 October 2011. Following the borough’s entry into the regional London in Bloom […]

Merton gardeners have cause for celebration as the borough achieves a silver award for London in Bloom. Accompanying the borough-wide success, special mention was given to The Paddock Allotments in […]

Four parks in Merton are among the best in the country. Colliers Wood Rec, Sir Joseph Hood Memorial Playing Field, John Innes and South Park Garden have received the Green […]

Staff and pupils gathered at Raynes Park High School last week (Friday 15 July) to witness Mayor of Merton, Councillor Gilli Lewis-Lavender launch the building works for the new Memorial […]

Olympic gold medallist Jonathan Edwards marked Merton as an official host borough of the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games yesterday (15 June) by flying the new flag. The new […]

Mitcham Carnival is all set to go dance-crazy on 11 June, the parade starts at Figges Marsh at 12.30 and arrives at Three Kings Piece at 1pm. Mitcham is gearing […]

Merton Council has been shortlisted for a public/private partnership award by the government publication Local Government Chronicle (LGC). The nomination recognises the council’s work with the Wimbledon Civic Theatre Trust […]

Merton Council is congratulating council employee John Murphy who has been awarded an MBE in the 2011 New Year’s Honour list. Announced on New Years Eve, John has been awarded […]

Merton Council has been shortlisted for a coveted London Planning Award. The council nominated its state-of-the-art St Ann’s Special educational Needs Centre of Excellence for the planning award earlier this […]

Merton Council is once again teaming up with Film London to call all young film makers for the second ‘Film Merton in 90 seconds’. Those who enter the competition could […]