Wandsworth Guardian: Local news from Wandsworth, Putney, Clapham, Tooting, Balham and Battersea

4:01pm Tuesday 22nd May 2012

Human rights judges have given David Cameron six months to honour the coalition Government's pledge to give prisoners the vote.

3:57pm Tuesday 22nd May 2012

Government plans to enable residents to force police to take action over anti-social behaviour after three separate incidents or five complaints are not good enough, a victims' group has said.

3:24pm Tuesday 22nd May 2012

A mother who murdered her two young children and placed their bodies in holdalls in the boot of her car has lost her appeal against her sentence.

1:50pm Tuesday 22nd May 2012

A seven-year-old boy has died after being rescued from a house fire.

1:39pm Tuesday 22nd May 2012

The father of a young soldier who was accidentally shot dead by a comrade while on active service in Afghanistan has called for "lessons to be learned" from the tragedy.

12:52pm Tuesday 22nd May 2012

An anti-paedophile vigilante who murdered a gay man he wrongly believed to be a child molester has been told he may never be released from prison.

12:47pm Tuesday 22nd May 2012

Reforms to the UK's electricity market which aim to drive billions of pounds of investment into new nuclear plants and renewables have been published by the Government.

12:38pm Tuesday 22nd May 2012

The Government should prepare a Plan B, featuring temporary tax cuts and increased spending on infrastructure, to support the UK economy in the case of a collapse in the eurozone or the failure of recovery to take off, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has said.

12:32pm Tuesday 22nd May 2012

The threat of a strike by BBC journalists and technicians over the Diamond Jubilee weekend has been removed after talks over pay.

12:09pm Tuesday 22nd May 2012

A judge told a young man who strangled his aspiring model girlfriend in a jealous rage to put away thoughts of "champagne, Bentleys and girls" as she sentenced him to at least 16 years in jail.