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• Croydon carer adapts Right Said Fred for special festive performance - Croydon Advertiser

  26-12-2015 10:17
  Croydon Advertiser
  Croydon carer adapts Right Said Fred for special festive performance
  Croydon Advertiser
  CROYDON volunteers got creative last week to remix a festive version of a memorable 1960s novelty track. Staff at The Carers Support Centre, in George Street, sung a number of carols and an adapted version – by volunteer David Sutch – of Bernard ...
  

• New Addington woman 'touched' by community support after mugging...

  26-12-2015 09:50 via croydonadvertiser.co.uk
  
  TRIBUTES have been paid to a "wonderful and kind-hearted" elderly lady who was "touched" by New Addington's community coming together to help her after she was mugged earlier this year.People raised hundreds of pounds for Amalia Sword, 86, in September year after she was mugged on her way home from the shops on August Bank Holiday.But community group New Addington Pathfinders received the sad news last weekend that Mrs Sword had died.Her death is not thought to be related to...
  
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• Croydon carer adapts Right Said Fred for special festive...

  26-12-2015 09:47 via croydonadvertiser.co.uk
  
  CROYDON volunteers got creative last week to remix a festive version of a memorable 1960s novelty track.Staff at The Carers Support Centre, in George Street, sung a number of carols and an adapted version – by volunteer David Sutch – of Bernard Cribbins' 1962 top-ten hit Right Said Fred.Mr Sutch, who has devoted time to the centre for two years, said: ""I rewrote the song lyrics because the centre is one of the biggest strokes of luck I've ever had and it has transformed my...
  
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• New play equipment installed at charity centre for vulnerable...

  26-12-2015 09:44 via croydonadvertiser.co.uk
  
  THOUSANDS of pounds worth of play equipment has been installed at a charity centre for vulnerable children thanks to fundraising by a local solicitors.A new slide, tunnel and play cubicle have been added to the playpark at Barnardo's new The Triangle hub in Coxwell Road, Crystal Palace.The equipment was paid for with a donation of more than £4,000 from Westow Street firm Amphlett Lissimore, part of the QualitySolicitors group.Frank Lissimore, managing partner of the firm, decided to...
  
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• Pupils tour police HQ after winning antisocial behaviour poster...

  26-12-2015 09:41 via croydonadvertiser.co.uk
  
  SIX Croydon primary school children won a trip to New Scotland Yard after triumphing in a competition to design posters to discourage antisocial behaviour.Amelia Hau, Ashanti Proctor and Estella Pope from Old Palace School; Lucas Coster and Ethan Campbell from Elmhurst Primary; and Shanjyan Ravichankar from St Peters Primary each had their designs chosen, in the competition set up by the police from the Croham safer neighbourhood team.The posters will be used as part of a campaign against drug..
  
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• High-flying Purley man nets gliding world championship glory

  26-12-2015 02:42 via croydonadvertiser.co.uk
  
  A PURLEY man soared to new heights this month to be crowned the best junior glider in the world.Tom Arscott, from Hartley Down, beat 30 others to net first place at the Junior World Gliding Championships, despite almost letting the win slip from his grasp on the penultimate day of the competition.The 23-year-old led the 12-day competition, held for people under 26 between December 1 and 12 in Narromine, New South Wales, Australia, from day three.But on day 11 the strength of the German team saw.
  
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• Croydon Guardian 2015 in front pages

  26-12-2015 01:10
  
  Here they are. Every Croydon Guardian front page of 2015
  
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