Dozens of worried residents have gathered beside a police cordon at Thornton Heath in Croydon after a gas explosion destroyed at least one home.People who had been evacuated from Galpin's Road in their pyjamas told the PA news agency their windows had shattered early on Monday morning from the force of the explosion.

Dozens of worried residents have gathered beside a police cordon at Thornton Heath in Croydon after a gas explosion destroyed at least one home.People who had been evacuated from Galpin's Road in their pyjamas told the PA news agency their windows had shattered early on Monday morning from the force of the explosion.