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• Cockroaches, rats and mouse droppings in rice: Full horror of...

  06-10-2015 18:12 via croydonadvertiser.co.uk
  
  THE grim hygiene conditions at a town centre all-you-can-eat buffet restaurant where health inspectors found a rodent infestation, live cockroaches and mouse droppings in a bag of rice, can be revealed after one of the operators was found guilty of breaching 19 food hygiene regulations.Hend Hamude and Mardan Mahmood, the operators of North End's Babylon Inn, were charged with a host of food hygiene breaches at Camberwell Green Magistrates' Court on September 23.Hamude, who denied 19 charges,...
  
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• 'Unloved' Colonnades leisure park set for new lease of life after sale to property firm

  06-10-2015 17:03
  
  An "unloved" leisure park is set for a fresh lease of life after being sold to a new owner.
  
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• 'Unloved' Colonnades leisure park set for new lease of life after sale agreed

  06-10-2015 17:03
  
  Property firm promises to breathe fresh life into the Purley Way entertainment and food complex, more than half of which has been vacant for five years.
  
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• Tributes after New Addington 'best dad in the world', dies in...

  06-10-2015 16:47 via croydonadvertiser.co.uk
  
  FRIENDS and family have paid tribute to a father of two from New Addington who died in a motorbike crash.Liam Barden, 24, died after his motorcycle hit a tree in Downe Road, Keston, Bromley last Wednesday, September 30.His fiancee Kirsty Rose said Liam, father of two girls aged two and three, was "the best dad in the world".A tribute page set up online to help Liam's young family has so far raised more than £700.Julie Wilson-Morley wrote: "Words cannot express what the...
  
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• Croydon cancer sufferers bare all for calendar with a difference - Croydon Advertiser

  06-10-2015 15:57
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  Croydon cancer sufferers bare all for calendar with a difference
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  BRAVE Croydon cancer suffers have been stripping off in a topless photo shoot with a difference. Sheila Maisey, from Mansfield Road in South Croydon, had a mastectomy in 2011 after a routine scan showed pre-cancerous cells in her breast. So when friend ...
  

• Croydon cancer sufferers bare all for calendar with a difference

  06-10-2015 15:19 via croydonadvertiser.co.uk
  
  BRAVE Croydon cancer suffers have been stripping off in a topless photo shoot with a difference.Sheila Maisey, from Mansfield Road in South Croydon, had a mastectomy in 2011 after a routine scan showed pre-cancerous cells in her breast.So when friend Sally Russell decided to make a calendar for the support centre they both visited – South East Cancer Help Centre (SECHC) in Purley – she knew how she wanted to do it: "As I am now."Sadly Sally died aged 52 before she could see...
  
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• AFC Croydon crush Hollands & Blair in FA Vase to set up Beckenham Town tie - Croydon Advertiser

  06-10-2015 15:15
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  AFC Croydon crush Hollands & Blair in FA Vase to set up Beckenham Town tie
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  AFC Croydon Athletic made light work of what, on paper, looked a very difficult tie in the 2nd Qualifying Round of the FA Vase at Hollands & Blair. Not only did they have to visit Southern Counties East League leaders but were also hit by several late ...
  

• 17 words and phrases Croydon people wouldn't have heard of in...

  06-10-2015 14:43 via croydonadvertiser.co.uk
  
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• Croydon father, 24, killed in motorcycle crash described as 'the best dad in ... - Evening Standard

  06-10-2015 13:16
  Croydon father, 24, killed in motorcycle crash described as 'the best dad in ...
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  The fiancée of a young father killed when his motorbike smashed into a tree today said he was “the best dad in the world”. Liam Barden, 24, died while riding with friends in the suburb of Keston, Bromley, last Wednesday evening. Witnesses said the ...
  

• MAPPED: Your guide to Halloween and half term fun in south London

  06-10-2015 13:10
  
  Halloween and half term coincide this month, meaning there’s lots of wicked fun to be had for children, families and adults. Vibe picked out some of the top creepy fun this October.
  
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• Amazon expands Prime Now two-hour delivery service to Croydon - Croydon Advertiser

  06-10-2015 13:00
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  Amazon expands Prime Now two-hour delivery service to Croydon
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  CROYDON'S shopaholics can get online shopping delivered to their door within hours after Amazon extended its Prime Now service to the borough. The online retailer today announced that the service, which launched in June and was previously only ...and more »
  

• Tesco strips shelves of underweight garlic bread after Trading...

  06-10-2015 12:36 via croydonadvertiser.co.uk
  
  SUPERMARKET giant Tesco has removed thousands of packets of garlic bread from its shelves - worth £93,000 - after Trading Standards officers found some were far lighter than advertised.The company, which has a number of Express stores in Croydon including George Street, South End, Lower Addiscombe Road, Whitehorse Road and London Road, has withdrawn 66,000 packs of its own brand garlic bread after consumer watchdogs uncovered packs up to a fifth lighter than they should be.During two visit
  
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• Woman's relief as her Wang is found up a tree in New Addington

  06-10-2015 12:24 via croydonadvertiser.co.uk
  
  JUST when its distraught owner feared her pet was gone for good, Wang the cat emerged - five weeks later and four miles away.Mystery surrounds what happened to the meandering moggy, who was found up a tree in New Addington after going missing from its Warlingham home.Owner Lindsey Kent delivered 1,600 leaflets to houses in Warlingham after Wang disappeared from his home in Limpsfield Road on August 19.She also made an appeal via Facebook as her search grew more desperate.Eventually, on September
  
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• Amazon expands Prime Now two-hour delivery service to Croydon

  06-10-2015 12:04 via croydonadvertiser.co.uk
  
  CROYDON'S shopaholics can get online shopping delivered to their door within hours after Amazon extended its Prime Now service to the borough.The online retailer today announced that the service, which launched in June and was previously only available in central London and Birmingham, would be expanded to three times the number of postcodes, including all of Croydon.Prime Now, which allows shoppers to pick two-hour delivery windows the same day, meaning shopping can be delivered in as little as
  
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• Smugglers jailed after hiding millions of cigarettes among frozen chicken - Croydon Advertiser

  06-10-2015 11:16
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  Smugglers jailed after hiding millions of cigarettes among frozen chicken
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  Two men who helped smuggle more than a million cigarettes and over 774kg of tobacco into the UK, hidden in a cover load of frozen chicken, have been jailed. Maruisz Dudek and Miroslaw Rogalski were part of gang of four men who plotted to illegally ...
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• Smugglers jailed after hiding millions of cigarettes among frozen...

  06-10-2015 10:30 via croydonadvertiser.co.uk
  
  Two men who helped smuggle more than a million cigarettes and over 774kg of tobacco into the UK, hidden in a cover load of frozen chicken, have been jailed.Maruisz Dudek and Miroslaw Rogalski were part of gang of four men who plotted to illegally import tobacco into the UK.On May 14, 2013, HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) officers stopped a refrigerated lorry at a yard belonging to RBC Scaffolding in Mitcham Road, Croydon, which had arrived in the country through Killingholme Port in North...
  
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• 'Horror' as human remains are found at house after doctor flees with his lover

  06-10-2015 10:00
  
  Who was the murderous London doctor who fled with his lover after his wife’s disappearance?
  
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• Chancellor's devolution plan could be poisoned chalice, says Labour council leader

  06-10-2015 06:10
  
  George Osborne announced plans yesterday that would allow councils to keep 100 per cent of local tax receipts by 2020, and give them powers to cut business rates.
  
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