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• £298000 for a one-bed flat? New 'affordable luxury' homes in Croydon town ... - Croydon Guardian

  30-11-2015 22:06
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  £298000 for a one-bed flat? New 'affordable luxury' homes in Croydon town ...
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  It is marketed as "affordable luxury" - an office-to-residential conversion in Croydon town centre that promises a "new model of sophisticated urban living", with flats stuffed full of granite work surfaces, Bosch appliances, and "hyperoptic broadband ...and more »
  

• 'Possibility' all Croydon libraries could close 'apart from statutory ones ... - Croydon Advertiser

  30-11-2015 19:45
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  'Possibility' all Croydon libraries could close 'apart from statutory ones ...
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  ALL but one of Croydon's 13 libraries could close as part of the council's attempts to balance the books following further cuts in government funding. That is the stark admission of Timothy Godfrey, cabinet member for culture, leisure and sport ...
  

• 'Possibility' all Croydon libraries could close 'apart from...

  30-11-2015 19:27 via croydonadvertiser.co.uk
  
  ALL but one of Croydon's 13 libraries could close as part of the council's attempts to balance the books following further cuts in government funding. That is the stark admission of Tim Godfrey, cabinet member for culture, leisure and sport, following Chancellor George Osborne's spending review last Wednesday. Cllr Godfrey said the Labour-run council is "committed" to "proper coverage across the borough" but added that extensive cuts were possible after the grant given to...
  
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• £298,000 for a one-bed flat? New 'affordable luxury' homes in Croydon town centre's Impact House

  30-11-2015 19:07
  
  The first tenants are expected to move into Impact House in 2017, but the cheapest home will cost more than 10 times Croydon's average annual wage.
  
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• Paralympic sport wheelchair rugby comes to Croydon in taster session - Croydon Advertiser

  30-11-2015 18:32
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  Paralympic sport wheelchair rugby comes to Croydon in taster session
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  WHEELCHAIR rugby will be coming to Croydon for a taster session to mark International Day for Persons with a Disability on Thursday. Anyone over the age of 18 with a disability is invited to try out the sport for the first time. The session, co ...
  

• Paralympic sport wheelchair rugby comes to Croydon in taster...

  30-11-2015 18:11 via croydonadvertiser.co.uk
  
  WHEELCHAIR rugby will be coming to Croydon for a taster session to mark International Day for Persons with a Disability on Thursday.Anyone over the age of 18 with a disability is invited to try out the sport for the first time.The session, co-organised with Fusion Lifestyle, will take place between 9 and 11.30am at the Waddon Leisure Centre, in Purley Way on December 3.Entry is free and open to all sporting levels. Rugby chairs and training will be provided.For more details visit www.gbwr.org.uk
  
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• Crystal Palace paid £4.7m to players' agents, new Premier League figures show

  30-11-2015 18:08
  
  Palace's nearest neighbours in mid-table were Aston Villa, who paid £4.9m to agents, and Everton, who paid £4.5m.
  
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• Crisps sticky with urine and poo on shelves: 99p Stores fined for...

  30-11-2015 17:42 via croydonadvertiser.co.uk
  
  THE company which runs two 99p stores in Croydon has been fined £154,000 after food hygiene inspectors found crisps "sticky" with mouse urine, rodent poo on shelves and food boxes "gnawed through". Croydon Council inspectors found food "not fit for human consumption" at the two rodent-infested town centre branches of 99p Stores in North End and Crown Hill last year after tip-offs from members of the public who spotted rodents while shopping. The company...
  
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• New Addington family brand arsonists 'cowards' for attack on car...

  30-11-2015 17:08 via croydonadvertiser.co.uk
  
  EARLY morning arsonists who "threw a can full of petrol" at a car on a driveway in New Addington have been branded "cowards" by the family who were sleeping in the home.Jacqueline Bolton was asleep with her husband, Michael, in Salcot Crescent when their 19-year-old son George came home and woke them after seeing his brother's car on fire at around 2.15am on Saturday.Their four-year-old grandson, Frankie, was asleep in the front upstairs bedroom, metres away from the...
  
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• Eagles supremo Steve Parish: Crystal Palace can win the Premier League - Croydon Advertiser

  30-11-2015 16:57
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  Eagles supremo Steve Parish: Crystal Palace can win the Premier League
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  CRYSTAL Palace co-owner Steve Parish believes the club can win the Premier League title in the next 15 years. The Eagles are on the verge of making the next step up in their history by taking on extra investment from American billionaire duo Josh ...and more »
  

• Convicted match-fixer who used to own Croydon Athletic FC jailed for tax fraud - Your Local Guardian

  30-11-2015 16:45
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  Convicted match-fixer who used to own Croydon Athletic FC jailed for tax fraud
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  A convicted match-fixer who used to own Croydon Athletic FC has been jailed for tax fraud, more than five years after his arrest. Mazhar Majeed, 40, purposefully under-declared income from his development and rental businesses by £259,000 in an attempt ...and more »
  

• Convicted match-fixer who used to own Croydon Athletic FC jailed for tax fraud

  30-11-2015 16:40
  
  Mazhar Majeed, 40, purposefully under-declared income from his development and rental businesses by £259,000 in an attempt to avoid paying tax, an investigation by HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) found.
  
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• 'We need to stop this atrocity': Croydon medical student backs junior doctor ... - South West Londoner

  30-11-2015 16:32
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  'We need to stop this atrocity': Croydon medical student backs junior doctor ...
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  A Croydon trainee doctor has branded the proposed changes to junior doctors' contracts as a matter of 'life or death'. On the eve of strike action St George's University Hospital student Agnes Okanlawon and her trainee doctor boyfriend Matthew Dawson ...
  

• 'Songs helped me cope with parents' break up' - Ben Haenow at...

  30-11-2015 16:08 via croydonadvertiser.co.uk
  
  X FACTOR winner Ben Haenow said music helped him cope with his parents' break-up – and last week he saw how it is aiding others in Croydon. The X Factor winner - who still lives at home with his mum, Rosanna Ward, and brother, Alex, in Shirley – was just four when his parents split and said growing up he began to "question why". "Listening to music and hearing people singing songs about my life was a great way to get that emotion out," the 30-year-old...
  
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• Line your stomach and drink less, London Ambulance Service pleads ahead of busy Christmas season

  30-11-2015 16:08
  
  London Ambulance Service bosses begged drinkers to line their stomachs and plan a route home to keep themselves safe over the holidays.
  
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• Family sue NHS trusts over prison death of man arrested for stealing gingerbread during London riots

  30-11-2015 16:00
  
  The London Ambulance Service and St George's Healthcare will face a civil trial at the High Court this week following James Best's death at HMP Wandsworth four years ago.
  
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• Cricket fixer Mazhar Majeed admitted tax fraud months after...

  30-11-2015 14:16 via croydonadvertiser.co.uk
  
  CRICKET fixer Mazhar Majeed admitted tax fraud months after asking the Advertiser to remove an article about his crimes so he could "start a new life".The disgraced former Croydon Athletic chairman emailed the paper in July last year to request we delete a storyfrom this website about him helping to fix aspects of the England versus Pakistan match at Lords in 2010.Majeed, 40, who was jailed for two years and eight months for masterminding the scam, said: "I'm not here to argue...
  
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• Government's benefit cap unlawfully discriminated against Croydon carer and ... - Croydon Guardian

  30-11-2015 14:07
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  Government's benefit cap unlawfully discriminated against Croydon carer and ...
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  The Government unlawfully discriminated against a Croydon carer by failing to exempt her from the benefits cap, a High Court judge has ruled. Ashley Hurley, 26, a single mother who looks after her severely disabled grandmother Mary Jarrett, 72, was ...
  

• Government's benefit cap unlawfully discriminated against Croydon carer and mum-of-four, High Court judge rules

  30-11-2015 14:00
  
  The Government unlawfully discriminated against a Croydon carer by failing to exempt her from the benefits cap, a High Court judge has ruled.
  
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• Container crates, Croydon and me, by Mr Boxpark - The Croydon Citizen

  30-11-2015 14:00
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  Container crates, Croydon and me, by Mr Boxpark
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  Arriving at Boxpark Croydon's marketing suite was like stepping into a wrapped up Christmas present. You shouldn't peek, but it's exciting. It was here I met Boxpark's mastermind and CEO, Roger Wade, to hear what Croydon can expect from its new Boxpark ...
  

• Warning for Christmas shoppers as detectives crack down on sale of stolen goods

  30-11-2015 13:41
  
  Police visiting second-hand shops and stalls warned shoppers to be on the lookout for dodgy cut-price goods in the run-up to Christmas.
  
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• Warning for Christmas shoppers across south London as detectives crack down on sale of stolen goods

  30-11-2015 13:41
  
  Police visiting second-hand shops and stalls warned shoppers to be on the lookout for dodgy cut-price goods in the run-up to Christmas.
  
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• Uber driver 'punched and racially abused' Croydon mother on way home from ... - Croydon Guardian

  30-11-2015 12:38
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  Uber driver 'punched and racially abused' Croydon mother on way home from ...
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  A Croydon mother has accused an Uber driver of punching and racially abusing her as he drove her home from a night out. Croydon Guardian: An Uber press image. Taleka White claims the app-based taxi service's driver called her a "black c***" and ...and more »
  

• Nature notes: The wildlife suffering an icy shock to the system

  30-11-2015 12:30
  
  The first though albeit very brief taste of winter came as a bit of a shock to the system as temperatures plunged more than twenty degrees overnight in the icy Arctic blast.
  
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• Public to get the chance to grill Met Police Commissioner Sir...

  30-11-2015 12:23 via croydonadvertiser.co.uk
  
  THE Croydon public will get the chance to grill the man in charge of London's police this week.Sir Bernard Hogan-Howe, the Commissioner of the Met, will set out his vision for the future of policing in London and take questions from the public at Croydon College on Wednesday, December 2.The event will be from 6.30pm until 7.30pm, with doors opening at 6pm. Organiser say seats will be allocated on a first-come first-served, basis.
  
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• Uber driver 'punched and racially abused' Croydon mother on way home from night out

  30-11-2015 12:20
  
  Taleka White claims the app-based taxi service’s driver called her a "black c***" and punched her in the face after forcing her out of the car in the early hours of Sunday morning.
  
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• Your chance to grill Metropolitan Police commissioner Sir Bernard Hogan-Howe at Croydon College

  30-11-2015 12:07
  
  The Metropolitan Police commissioner will set out his "vision for London" and talk about the future of the force at Croydon College.
  
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• 'It was a warzone': Police appeal for witnesses after double stabbing in West Croydon

  30-11-2015 12:01
  
  Two teenage boys were taken to hospital with knife wounds following a fight in London Road.
  
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• PHOTOS: Car 'completely burned out' after bursting into flames following flashing warning light

  30-11-2015 11:57
  
  When the driver opened up the car to investigate, flames burst out from the engine and quickly engulfed the whole vehicle.
  
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• PHOTOS AND VIDEO: Car 'completely burned out' after bursting into flames following flashing warning light

  30-11-2015 11:57
  
  When the driver opened up the car to investigate, flames burst out from the engine and quickly engulfed the whole vehicle.
  
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• Car 'completely burned out' after bursting into flames following flashing warning light

  30-11-2015 11:57
  
  When the driver opened up the car to investigate, flames burst out from the engine and quickly engulfed the whole vehicle.
  
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• No X Factor regrets: Amelia Lily talks to us as about tours of Divas show and Green Day musical

  30-11-2015 11:06
  
  Having belted out anthems such as Aretha Franklin’s Think and River Deep – Mountain High on live TV, it is not surprising former X Factor finalist Amelia Lily is excited about headlining a tour titled Simply the Best! Divas.
  
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• Florence + the Machine, Kendrick Lamar and Jamie XX join British Summer Time at Hyde Park 2016 line up

  30-11-2015 10:00
  
  Florence + the Machine, Kendrick Lamar and Jamie XX have been added to a mega line-up for British Summer Time at Hyde Park next summer.
  
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• Woman 'punched in the face and called a black **** by Uber driver...

  30-11-2015 09:58 via croydonadvertiser.co.uk
  
  A WOMAN says she was punched in the face and racially abused by an Uber cab driver in Croydon. Taleka White, 27, claims the man dragged her from his car and attacked her in Addiscombe at 3.30am on Sunday.She later posted a picture of the driver on Twitter and warned other young women not to use the company. "I've been assaulted by an #Uber cab driver punched in the face and pushed to the ground after being called a black **** please be careful ladies," she posted. Taleka and a friend...
  
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• London Fire Brigade braces for £8.1m cuts by 2017

  30-11-2015 09:45
  
  The fire service could put 13 engines out of service permanently, to help save millions of pounds.
  
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• Delays to Waterloo through Clapham Junction as passenger is taken ill

  30-11-2015 09:12
  
  Commuters will face delays this morning after a passenger was taken ill
  
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• Christmassy dog Bob loves to dress up

  30-11-2015 06:50
  
  This cheeky little chappy isn’t Santa’s Little Helper, he is in fact Bob and he belongs to Bev Reeves.
  
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• Jeremy Corbyn's head of policy reinstated after party suspension for telling voters to back Class War candidate in Croydon South

  30-11-2015 06:00
  
  Jeremy Corbyn's head of policy has been reinstated to the Labour Party following being suspended for telling voters to back a rival election in Croydon South.
  
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