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• VIDEO: Police release CCTV of missing Croydon 14-year-old Riana Reid - Croydon Advertiser

  25-02-2016 23:07
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  VIDEO: Police release CCTV of missing Croydon 14-year-old Riana Reid
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  POLICE have released CCTV footage as part of a fresh appeal to find a 14-year-old girl from Croydon who has been missing for more than a week. Riana Reid was last seen at a Primark store in Marble Arch, in central London at 7.30pm on February 17.
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• VIDEO: Police release CCTV of missing Croydon 14-year-old Riana...

  25-02-2016 21:55 via croydonadvertiser.co.uk
  
  POLICE have released CCTV footage as part of a fresh appeal to find a 14-year-old girl from Croydon who has been missing for more than a week. Riana Reid was last seen at a Primark store in Marble Arch, in central London at 7.30pm on February 17. The Metropolitan Police has now released CCTV footage of her leaving Honour Oak Park rail station in Lewisham two days earlier, at 8.04pm on February 15. Riana has links to Croydon, Lewisham, Dartford and central London.Police are following up several..
  
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• PICTURES: What is happening next to East Croydon station?

  25-02-2016 20:00 via croydonadvertiser.co.uk
  
  A THIRD tower block has been given the go aheadto be built in Ruskin Square, next to East Croydon station, after the council granted planningpermission.The £500 million development of two million square feet of land owned by Stanhope/Schroders, was given outline planning permission in 2012, and will feature up to five blocks of flats and up to five office blocks once complete.The first residential building, a two-tiered block of nine and 22 storeys called Vita, is almost...
  
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• RECAP: Food hygiene ratings, 'cat killer' inquiry latest and...

  25-02-2016 19:25 via croydonadvertiser.co.uk
  
  IT has been another busy day in the Croydon Advertiser office - and you might have missed some of the day's big stories. As we prepare to switch off our computers (at least until the next piece of breaking news!) here is a recap of today's most read stories on the Croydon Advertiser website. NAMED AND SHAMED: The 103 Croydon businesses with the worst food hygiene ratingsExclusive: Police have more questions than answers in hunt for 'Croydon Cat Killer'Rapist given six-year jail term for sex...
  
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• Home Office overturns decision to cut £4m from Croydon's asylum seeker funding - Croydon Guardian

  25-02-2016 19:12
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  Home Office overturns decision to cut £4m from Croydon's asylum seeker funding
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  A £4m cut to Croydon Council's funding for looking after hundreds of child asylum seekers has been reversed. Last September it emerged the Home Office was slashing its contribution to the council's budget for caring for younger refugees, despite Prime ...and more »
  

• Home Office overturns decision to cut £4m from Croydon's asylum seeker funding

  25-02-2016 19:07
  
  In a letter to council yesterday immigration minister James Brokenshire confirmed that the full amount of funding had been restored.
  
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• NAMED AND SHAMED: The 103 Croydon businesses with the worst food hygiene ratings - Croydon Advertiser

  25-02-2016 18:26
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  NAMED AND SHAMED: The 103 Croydon businesses with the worst food hygiene ratings
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  EVER wondered whether your weekend takeaway or your favourite lunch has been made in a tidy, organised and, most importantly, hygienic environment? Last year, 103 businesses failed to meet expected standards in their food hygiene inspections with 15 ...and more »
  

• DfT official who slammed train drivers for earning £60,000...

  25-02-2016 18:00 via croydonadvertiser.co.uk
  
  THE senior Department for Transport official who had to apologise after slamming train drivers for earning "between £60,000 and £80,000" got his figures wrong.On Monday the Advertiser reported on how Peter Wilkinson had told train drivers who refused to adjust to change to "get the hell out of my industry".Mr Wilkinson said train drivers are paid high salaries of £60,000 a year or more to work three days a week."I'm furious about it and it has got to...
  
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• Man charged with trying to punch Crystal Palace's bald eagle mascot

  25-02-2016 16:20
  
  Daniel Boylett, 35, was charged on January 21 with violent disorder and attempted criminal damage.
  
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• Owner of one-star hygiene restaurant 'spent £12k' on...

  25-02-2016 15:27 via croydonadvertiser.co.uk
  
  THE owner of Bakhan Restaurant, which scored a one, says he has spent £12,000 on getting the premises to acceptable standards.When Ali Ali, 41, took over the Kurdish and Middle Eastern restaurant about a year ago he found the kitchen was "not very clean", in "a bad condition" and that the store room was "not very good".He spent thousands of pounds buying a new boiler, fans and a canopy above the grill.He also re-tiled the entire kitchen and refurbished a store...
  
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• Croydon businesses 'did not know' they were showing out-of-date...

  25-02-2016 15:26 via croydonadvertiser.co.uk
  
  TWO food outlets have been spotted displaying out-of-date food hygiene ratings.When the Advertiser visited Melfort Fish Bar, in Melfort Road, Thornton Heath, last Friday (February 19), a framed certificate and sticker in the window dated 2012 giving a rating of four out of five were on show for customers.However, in May last year the chippy was given just one star for its food hygiene standards.Staff claimed they "did not know" they had been given one, adding that manager Celal Yilmaz...
  
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• REVEALED: Croydon's least hygienic places to eat - Croydon Guardian

  25-02-2016 15:21
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  REVEALED: Croydon's least hygienic places to eat
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  Cafes, butcher shops and fast-food takeaways are among dozens businesses revealed as the least hygienic places to buy food in Croydon. Twenty-nine eateries and food shops were rated zero, the worst possible score, following their latest inspections.and more »
  

• REVEALED: Croydon's least hygienic places to eat

  25-02-2016 15:01
  
  Twenty-nine eateries and food shops were rated zero, the worst possible score, following their latest inspections.
  
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• 'Outstanding ' Purley nursery Whytebeams repeats Ofsted success

  25-02-2016 14:05 via croydonadvertiser.co.uk
  
  ALMOST seven years after it was first rated "outstanding" by Ofsted a nursery in Purley has repeated the achievement. Staff and children were celebrating this week after the education watchdog confirmed Whytebeams Nursery School is still meeting the same excellent standards as it was in 2009. A report praised the setting, based in St John the Baptist Church Hall in Dale Road, across the board, describing senior staff as "highly motivated" and committed to "continuous...
  
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• NAMED AND SHAMED: The 103 Croydon businesses with the worst food...

  25-02-2016 14:00 via croydonadvertiser.co.uk
  
  EVER wondered whether your weekend takeaway or your favourite lunch has been made in a tidy, organised and, most importantly, hygienic environment? Last year, 103 businesses failed to meet expected standards in their food hygiene inspections with 15 given a rating of ZERO out of five – the lowest possible score, which means they need urgent improvement. Any outlet which prepares food is judged on hygiene, structure and confidence in management by an environmental health inspector...
  
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• Man, 35, charged with trying to punch Crystal Palace's bald eagle...

  25-02-2016 13:32 via croydonadvertiser.co.uk
  
  A FOOTBALL fan has been charged with trying to punch Crystal Palace's bald eagle mascot. Daniel Boylett, 35, was charged on January 21 with violent disorder and attempted criminal damage.The incident allegedly occurred during Palace's Capital One Cup match against rivals Charlton at Selhurst Park on September 23. Boylett, of Altash Way, Mottingham, south east London, has been bailed to appear at Croydon Magistrates' Court on March 29.He was originally arrested last November.Numerous arrests...
  
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• PICTURES: 200 plants seized in raid on 'cannabis factory' in South Croydon

  25-02-2016 11:20
  
  These pictures show the forest of mature cannabis plants that officers found during a drugs raid in Coombe Road this morning.
  
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• Minister accused of spanking parishioners 'led church as a cult'

  25-02-2016 10:23
  
  Howard Curtis, 73, led the Coulsdon Christian Fellowship (CCF) as a “cult” and demanded his flock obey his orders as the “word of God”, a former member of his congregation told Croydon Crown Court.
  
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• Exclusive: Police have more questions than answers in hunt for...

  25-02-2016 08:37 via croydonadvertiser.co.uk
  
  THREE months into the investigation of the so-called Croydon Cat Killer police have yet to find evidence the animals were deliberately killed by a human. Detective Sergeant Andy Collin, leading the investigation, told the Advertiser he has been unable to rule out the six deaths he is looking into might have been accidental. In an exclusive interview, he said a number of lines of inquiry are being pursued, including that someone mutilated the cats with a "sharp object" after they...
  
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• Another day of winter sunshine, but get ready for a frosty evening

  25-02-2016 08:30
  
  Forecasters are predicting widespread frost in London and Surrey this evening
  
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• Council spends £24 on CCTV for every person living in Croydon - Your Local Guardian

  25-02-2016 07:48
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  Council spends £24 on CCTV for every person living in Croydon
  Your Local Guardian
  Croydon Council spends more on CCTV cameras than all but three local authorities in the country, forking out nearly £5 million in the past three years, it has been claimed. The expenditure amounts to £24 for every person who lives in the borough ...and more »
  

• Council spends £24 on CCTV for every person living in Croydon - Croydon Guardian

  25-02-2016 06:09
  Croydon Guardian
  Council spends £24 on CCTV for every person living in Croydon
  Croydon Guardian
  Croydon Council spends more on CCTV cameras than all but three local authorities in the country, forking out nearly £5 million in the past three years, it has been claimed. The expenditure amounts to £24 for every person who lives in the borough ...and more »
  

• Council spends £24 on CCTV for every person living in Croydon

  25-02-2016 06:00
  
  Croydon is the second biggest spender on CCTV in London, behind the City of Westminster, despite operating just 91 cameras.
  
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• Council spends £14 on CCTV for every person living in Croydon

  25-02-2016 06:00
  
  Croydon is the second biggest spender on CCTV in London, behind the City of Westminster, despite operating just 91 cameras.
  
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• Disabled Croydon man attacked in Bayswater Rd home after trying to help Mooroolbark man - Herald Sun

  25-02-2016 01:45
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  Disabled Croydon man attacked in Bayswater Rd home after trying to help Mooroolbark man
  Herald Sun
  AN ELDERLY man in a wheelchair has been violently attacked in his Croydon home by a stranger he tried to help moments earlier. The man, 74 who has cerebral palsy, was near the intersection of Bayswater and Mt Dandenong roads at 4.30pm on Tuesday ...
  

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