I would like to be emailed about offers, event and updates from Evening Standard. Read our privacy notice. The London suburb once mocked for being ugly is enjoying a surprising property boom. Balham ...

Once rough and ready, a couple of decades of property price rises and a ripple of affluent family buyers fleeing more expensive parts of south-west London have transformed Balham into a middle-class ...

When Peter Sellers said Balham was the “Gateway to the South” he was poking fun at the fact that nothing of note ever happened there. A semi-suburban no man’s land at the bottom of the Northern Line, ...

Balham's community of city types and young parents means it boasts a nourishing mix of hip bars and suburban restaurants. There are unassuming family pubs sat right next to pop-up joints serving ...

There are loads of green spaces and places to hang out (Picture: Facebook/Flickr) Balham – or ‘The Gateway to the South’ if you’re a Peter Sellers fan or aged 50+ – is the best place to live in London ...

Police have launched a murder investigation after a man was shot dead in south-east London. The Metropolitan Police and London Ambulance Service were called to a residential street, where a man was ...

Aldi promises its not planning to move into corner shops as it tests a new Aldi Local site in Balham, south London FORGET Tesco Express or Sainsbury’s Local – Aldi is testing its own mini supermarket ...

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