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• SURVEY: Living and working in Croydon in 2016 - Croydon Advertiser

  22-01-2016 23:07
  Croydon Advertiser
  SURVEY: Living and working in Croydon in 2016
  Croydon Advertiser
  BILLIONS of pounds of investment, its booming population, a burgeoning tech scene, an established Premier League football team and some of the capital's best parks. There has never been a more exciting time to live and work in Croydon. Now the ...
  

• Crystal Palace midfielder joins MK Dons on loan - Croydon Advertiser

  22-01-2016 21:20
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  Crystal Palace midfielder joins MK Dons on loan
  Croydon Advertiser
  JONNY WILLIAMS has joined Championship side MK Dons on loan until the end of the season. The 22-year-old Crystal Palace midfielder, who played in the Eagles' recent defeat at home to Chelsea, has already been on loan at Nottingham Forest this ...and more »
  

• Police shut Gravel Hill in Addington after car ploughs into lamp post

  22-01-2016 18:36
  
  The car involved was leaking fluid after the crash, said a Metropolitan Police spokesman.
  
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• Restaurant owner fined for 'sewage smell' hygiene breaches after...

  22-01-2016 18:29 via croydonadvertiser.co.uk
  
  THE owner of a London Road curry house has been hit with a £6,000 fine after a food poisoning outbreak which led to more than 200 people being taken ill.Sivapathasundaram Premanathan, director of VP & Sons, which owns Spiceland in Broad Green, pleaded guilty to 20 food hygiene offences at Croydon Magistrates' Court on December 12 and was hit with a £6,000 fine.Environmental health officers at Croydon Council were alerted by the organiser of a coming-of-age party in December 2014,
  
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• Filthy restaurant in Croydon made more than 200 party guests ill and landed owner thousands in fines - South West Londoner

  22-01-2016 18:19
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  Filthy restaurant in Croydon made more than 200 party guests ill and landed owner thousands in fines
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  Kitchen staff who didn't wash their hands and incorrectly stored raw meat left more than 200 party-goers sick at an event in Thornton Heath. Environmental health officers were alerted when a large number of guests were taken ill at a coming-of-age ...
  

• Boy arrested and police appeal for second teenager after Croydon bus arson - Your Local Guardian

  22-01-2016 18:15
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  Boy arrested and police appeal for second teenager after Croydon bus arson
  Your Local Guardian
  Police have issued a fresh appeal to identify this teenage boy following an attempted arson attempt on a Croydon bus. Four seats were damaged in the arson attempt on board a T31 bus in Fieldway on September 6 last year. A 14-year-old boy from New ...
  Police arrest New Addington boy, 14, after attempted bus arson in CroydonCroydon Advertiserall 5 news articles »
  

• Souare signs new deal at Crystal Palace - Croydon Advertiser

  22-01-2016 16:15
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  Souare signs new deal at Crystal Palace
  Croydon Advertiser
  PAPE SOUARE has today (Friday) signed a new three-and-a-half year contract at Crystal Palace. The left-back has impressed since joining the Eagles last January, playing 33 times in all competitions. And he has now signed a new deal to keep him at the ...
  Crystal Palace: Calamity Hennessey will face Tottenham HotspurCroydon Guardianall 456 news articles »
  

• ​The 37 most bizarre compensation claims made against Croydon Council - Croydon Advertiser

  22-01-2016 15:27
  ​The 37 most bizarre compensation claims made against Croydon Council
  Croydon Advertiser
  SCORES of compensation claims have been lodged with Croydon Council over the last two years ranging from unfortunate injuries, unlucky incidents and utterly bizarre circumstances. The council has paid a whopping £599,454 in claims since 2013 ...
  

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• Cat with severed leg climbed three flights of scaffolding 'to say...

  22-01-2016 15:10 via croydonadvertiser.co.uk
  
  A MOTHER-OF-THREE and owner of a cat which died after having its leg severed off by a wanted attacker has told how the pet climbed three levels of scaffolding outside her flat "to say goodbye". Stacey Lambourne, 28, was getting ready for bed on Tuesday, January 19, when she heard their five-year-old black and white cat, Louie, banging on scaffolding around her flat. After she let Louie in through the window, who was bought as a gift for her son, she was "hysterical" when...
  
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• SURVEY: Living and working in Croydon in 2016

  22-01-2016 14:56 via croydonadvertiser.co.uk
  
  BILLIONS of pounds of investment, its booming population, a burgeoning tech scene, an established Premier League football team and some of the capital's best parks. There has never been a more exciting time to live and work in Croydon. Now the Advertiser wants to know your thoughts on living in London's most interesting borough. Today we launch our third annual survey about the big issues affecting Croydon, from crime and politics to health and the environment. This year's survey...
  
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• Council leader 'doesn't buy' Coulsdon traders' claims 'needless'...

  22-01-2016 14:15 via croydonadvertiser.co.uk
  
  COUNCIL leader Tony Newman "doesn't buy" Coulsdon traders' claims that their business had been affected by the six-month closure of the Lion Green Road car park.But he says the council is "confident" that the car park will soon be reopened in the wake of the collapse of a plan to build a Waitrose supermarket and community centre on the site.In the weeks after the closure in July the Advertiser reported how businesses in the town reported large falls in trade and footfall.But...
  
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• ​The 37 most bizarre compensation claims made against Croydon...

  22-01-2016 14:05 via croydonadvertiser.co.uk
  
  SCORES of compensation claims have been lodged with Croydon Council over the last two years ranging from unfortunate injuries, unlucky incidents and utterly bizarre circumstances.The council has paid a whopping £599,454 in claims since 2013 including the relatively small cost of a punctured tyre, to paying out more than £40,000 for dislocations caused by uneven pathways.Here are some of strangest and most eyebrow-raising claims made to the council over the last two years.Most...
  
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• Tenyson, a three-piece band that's far from 'Ordinary' - The Croydon Citizen

  22-01-2016 13:01
  The Croydon Citizen
  Tenyson, a three-piece band that's far from 'Ordinary'
  The Croydon Citizen
  I like the Croydon festival thing. Food, music, comedy, community – all are celebrated far and wide within the borough. I try to support these events as much as possible, and along the way you do bump into some regular faces, people of the same mind.
  

• Police hunt attacker who 'severed front leg off' child's pet cat...

  22-01-2016 12:57 via croydonadvertiser.co.uk
  
  POLICE are appealing for information after a pet cat was found with his leg hanging off, leaving him for dead.Louie, a five-year-old, male, black and white cat, went roaming from his home in neighbouring Sutton, at around 5pm on Monday, January 18.All seemed well the next day as neighbours spotted the cat exploring local streets and gardens near his home in Chaucer House, Chaucer Gardens.But when Louie returned home at 10:45pm he was found to have a large cut to his nose, a sticky substance...
  
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• Thornton Heath man pleads guilty to sexual assault and exposing himself at hospital

  22-01-2016 12:22
  
  Varghese Thomas, 43, of Kynaston Crescent, appeared at Camberwell Magistrate’s Court yesterday charged with committing the two offences at King’s College Hospital
  
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• Croydon's GCSE results rise but sponsored academies falling behind in class - Croydon Advertiser

  22-01-2016 12:11
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  Croydon's GCSE results rise but sponsored academies falling behind in class
  Croydon Advertiser
  Coloma Convent Girls' School is Croydon's top-performing non-independent school, but The Quest Academy, which it... Cat with severed leg climbed three flights of scaffolding 'to say... Cat with severed leg climbed three flights of scaffolding... 1 ...
  

• 'Help me find my brother before our mum dies,' pleads former New...

  22-01-2016 11:23 via croydonadvertiser.co.uk
  
  A FORMER New Addington man has put out a desperate plea to be reunited with his long lost brother before their mother loses her battle with terminal cancer.Danny Beecham, 39, is trying to find his older brother, Wayne Talbot, 54, who may now live in South Norwood. Thirty years ago, Danny, a former Castle Hill School pupil, moved to Wales with his mum, stepdad and sister, while Wayne decided to stay in New Addington with his girlfriend.Danny now lives in Manchester and is on a frantic search to..
  
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• Stonegate invests in new nightclub and bar in Croydon - Bar Magazine

  22-01-2016 11:22
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  Stonegate invests in new nightclub and bar in Croydon
  Bar Magazine
  Stonegate Pub Company is investing in a new nightclub and bar in Croydon – bucking a trend in the town centre that has seen a spate of closures. It is set to launch Luna in High Street on January 29 in the former site of its late-night venue Reflex ...
  

• Croydon's GCSE results rise but sponsored academies falling...

  22-01-2016 11:22 via croydonadvertiser.co.uk
  
  CROYDON'S overall GCSE results improved in 2015 but it was a disappointing year for schools forced to become academies. After falling for the first time in 11 years in 2014, the number of pupils achieving at least five A* to C grades including English and maths, the Government's key performance measure, increased by 2.8 per cent last year, from 56.6% to 59.6%. Old Palace of John Whitgift (93%), Al-Khair (92%), Coloma Convent Girls' School (87%) and Harris Academy Crystal Palace (83%) were...
  
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• Riddlesdown Collegiate announces plans to open new primary school in north Croydon - Croydon Guardian

  22-01-2016 10:35
  Croydon Guardian
  Riddlesdown Collegiate announces plans to open new primary school in north Croydon
  Croydon Guardian
  The trust that runs a Purley secondary school is hoping to open a new primary school in the north of the borough. The Collegiate Trust, which runs Riddlesdown Collegiate, has drawn up plans for a primary school with capacity for 90 pupils in each year ...and more »
  

• Riddlesdown Collegiate announces plans to open new primary school in north Croydon

  22-01-2016 10:30
  
  The Collegiate Trust, which runs Riddlesdown Collegiate, has drawn up plans for a primary school with capacity for 90 pupils in each year group.
  
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• Exclusive: South Norwood parents of murdered Lorraine Benson...

  22-01-2016 10:00 via croydonadvertiser.co.uk
  
  THE parents of a 22-year-old South Norwood woman brutally murderednearly 30 years ago have expressed their anger after finding out her killer will face a parole hearing this year.Lorraine Benson, a children's photographer at Children's World in Waddon, was strangled to death as she walked down a lit path in Raynes Park days before Christmas in 1988 by teenager John Dunne – who is serving a life sentence.Her devastated parents Patricia and Michael Benson, of Woodside Park, have...
  
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• Lane closed due to crash on M25 between Junction 3 and 4

  22-01-2016 09:50
  
  A lane is closed and traffic is slow on the M25 due to a crash between Junction 3 and 4.
  
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• 20 minute train delays on services across south London

  22-01-2016 08:49
  
  Allow extra time for your train journey this morning - there are delays of up to 20 minutes at London Victoria.
  
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• Rain and wind expected today, clearing for the weekend

  22-01-2016 08:28
  
  Temperatures are expected to get to 10 degrees today with about eight millimetres of rain expected.
  
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• Trust behind Riddlesdown Collegiate announces plans to open new primary school in north Croydon

  22-01-2016 06:00
  
  The Collegiate Trust, which runs Riddlesdown Collegiate, has drawn up plans for a primary school with capacity for 90 pupils in each year group.
  
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