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• Food hygiene system 'easy for all businesses to manage' says...

  04-03-2016 22:00 via croydonadvertiser.co.uk
  
  BUSINESSES in Croydon are not given "any leeway" in their rating for failing to complete paperwork, one of the council's most senior environmental health officers has said.When the Advertiser spoke to businesses scoring below expected food hygiene standards last week, many managers said the reason they were given a substandard score was because they were not "filling in the book".But officer Abigail Courtney said using the Food Standards Agency's "Safer Food, Better...
  
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• LOOKING BACK: The popular Croydon mayor who got into politics 'by...

  04-03-2016 21:30 via croydonadvertiser.co.uk
  
  After moving to Croydon in 1891, Frank Denning bought a dairy business in South Norwood and was elected Mayor of Croydon three times. Historian John Hickman looks at the life of the man who got into local politics "by accident"...Denning Avenue bisecting Waddon as it runs from Purley Way to Warham Road, commemorates Frank Denning, the fourth child of a Somerset blacksmith who, elected Mayor of Croydon three times consecutively, died in office 100 years ago.He was born in 1864 at...
  
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• New head teacher confirmed for Croydon secondary school

  04-03-2016 18:00 via croydonadvertiser.co.uk
  
  An independent girls' schoolhas appointed a new head teacher.Emma Pattison is to take up the role at Croydon High, in Old Farleigh Road, from September 2016. She is currently deputy head at St John's School, a private school in Leatherhead andtaught French and Spanish at Caterham School.Mrs Pattison will replace Debbie Leonard, who has led Croydon High since 2010 and is leaving the area to be closer to her family. She said: "I feel extremely confident that the school is in safe hands...
  
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• ARCHIVE PHOTOS: 20 pictures of the start of Brighton Bike Race...

  04-03-2016 17:59 via croydonadvertiser.co.uk
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• Missing teenager with links to Croydon found safe and well

  04-03-2016 16:25 via croydonadvertiser.co.uk
  
  POLICE were appealing for information to find a missing teenager.Shanique Pennant, 16, was last seen at The Central Family Court in Holborn on Thursday, February 25.She was known to have links within Wandsworth, in particular Tooting and Battersea, as well as Croydon areas.She has now been found safe and well, a Metropolitan Police spokesman said in a statement on Thursday.
  
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• Stallholders sceptical £500,000 funding will 'breathe new life' into Surrey Street Market

  04-03-2016 16:22
  
  Croydon Council announced £500,000 funding for the 700-year-old market this week to pay for new lighting, paving and signs.
  
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• Now that’s a mouthful: Woman receives phallic carrot in post

  04-03-2016 16:20
  
  The rude vegetable was seen poking out from a delivery box of organic foods sent to her Beddington home earlier this week.
  
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• ​Is this trike made by a Croydon inventor the elderly's answer to the 'Boris Bike'? - Croydon Advertiser

  04-03-2016 16:12
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  ​Is this trike made by a Croydon inventor the elderly's answer to the 'Boris Bike'?
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  A CROYDON entrepreneur has made an innovative new 'trike' and is asking for the Mayor of London to consider the transport option for the capital's elderly. Sumi Wang, 38, made the battery powered eFOLDi with her father after he broke his leg, leaving ...
  

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• Brighton council boss to bring cultural revolution to Croydon - The Argus

  04-03-2016 15:53
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  Brighton council boss to bring cultural revolution to Croydon
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  Assistant chief executive Paula Murray is to leave Brighton and Hove City Council for six months to lead a cultural revolution in Croydon. Neil Vowles. BRIGHTON and Hove City Council's second in command is to leave her post for six months to “deliver ...
  City's culture boss to take temporary post in CroydonBrighton & Hove Independentall 5 news articles »
  

• ​Is this trike made by a Croydon inventor the elderly's answer to...

  04-03-2016 14:48 via croydonadvertiser.co.uk
  
  A CROYDON entrepreneur has made an innovative new 'trike' and is asking for the Mayor of London to consider the transport option for the capital's elderly. Sumi Wang, 38, made the battery powered eFOLDi with her father after he broke his leg, leaving him unable to get around on traditional transport. Since, she has had a number of prototypes made and at Boris Johnson's last People's Question Time as Mayor, asked him to look at the folding trike as an alternative alongside the popular...
  
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• International bike race set to return to Croydon's streets

  04-03-2016 14:00
  
  Crowds lined the 1km route for last year's race debut in the borough - dubbed "Croydon carnage" by one pundit because of the injuries sustained by the athletes in crashes
  
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• QUIZ: Who said it - Donald Trump or London Has Fallen?

  04-03-2016 13:53
  
  Donald Trump and the film London Has Fallen – both have given us some unforgettable (and outrageous) lines.
  
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• Croydon businesses scoring top in food hygiene ratings last year - Croydon Advertiser

  04-03-2016 12:48
  Croydon businesses scoring top in food hygiene ratings last year
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  Staff from Olde Goa Restaurant (left), Gingerbread Corner Children's Centre (top right) and Gordon White at Croydon High... SERVING IT RIGHT: Savios and his mother-in-law Concy at Olde Goa in London Road CRDC20160301B-003_C. SPOT ON: ...
  

• Croydon businesses scoring top in food hygiene ratings last year

  04-03-2016 12:30 via croydonadvertiser.co.uk
  
  MORE than 900 Croydon businesses currently boast the highest food hygiene rating. In 2015, 144 were given fiveout of five in their latest inspections by environmental health officers in the borough. Last week, the Advertiser revealed the businesses which came rock bottom in the ratings for 2015 as published on the Food Standards Agency (FSA) website. This week, we spoke to some of those who are proud of their top marks – a score the FSA insists all businesses can...
  
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• International bike race set to return to Croydon's streets - Your Local Guardian

  04-03-2016 12:13
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  International bike race set to return to Croydon's streets
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  An international cycle race will return to the streets of Croydon this summer after drawing thousands of spectators into the town centre last year. Riders competing in the Pearl Izumi Tour Series will pass through the town centre on June 7 for the ...and more »
  

• From Kickstarter to the Oscars - directors Charlie Kaufman and Duke Johnson tell us about Anomalisa

  04-03-2016 12:11
  
  Multiple awards and an Oscar nomination only scratch the surface of what you need to know about Charlie Kaufman’s new movie Anomalisa.
  
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• Man, 22, in critical condition after being hit by a car in...

  04-03-2016 11:39 via croydonadvertiser.co.uk
  
  A MAN is in critical condition after being hit by a car near Norbury fire station.Officers and paramedics attended the incident at 9pm in London Road last night.The pedestrian, a 22-year-old man, was taken to a south London hospital by the London Ambulance Service.The driver of the car had stopped at the scene and no arrests were made, a Metropolitan Police spokesman said. Road closures were put in place while the scene was dealt with.Roads were reopened at about 2.20am this morning.
  
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• Food hygiene inspectors give New Addington schools top marks for...

  04-03-2016 11:33 via croydonadvertiser.co.uk
  
  MANY of New Addington's cafés, schools and care homes can boast the highest food hygiene rating.Last year, Meridian High School, Applegarth Academy, Castle Hill Academy and Wolsey Junior Academy were inspected and awardedthe perfect score of five out offive.To get the highest rating, schools and other businesses must maintain exceptional levels of cleanliness, organisation and management, according to the Food Standards Agency.Other businesses that received the highest marks in last...
  
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• International cycle race set to return to Croydon's streets - Croydon Guardian

  04-03-2016 11:26
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  International cycle race set to return to Croydon's streets
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  An international cycle race will return to the streets of Croydon this summer after drawing thousands of spectators into the town centre last year. Riders competing in the Pearl Izumi Tour Series will pass through the town centre on June 7 for the ...and more »
  

• Man 'in critical condition' after being hit by car outside Norbury fire station

  04-03-2016 10:37
  
  Members of the public were the first to alert firefighters to the crash , which happened in London Road about 9pm last night.
  
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• Fire chiefs remember Purley rail crash, 27 years on

  04-03-2016 09:33
  
  Five people were killed in the crash and 88 were injured.
  
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• Sunny Friday ahead but Saturday promises gloomier skies

  04-03-2016 09:06
  
  South-west Londoners and north Surrey residents can enjoy a largely sunny end to the week.
  
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• London's only gay mayoral candidate talks arts, housing, tube strikes and why London is better out of the EU

  04-03-2016 06:40
  
  Peter Whittle is the UKIP mayoral candidate and the only openly gay person on the list
  
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• £85,000 funding for Upper Norwood Library not enough to protect services, say campaigners

  04-03-2016 06:00
  
  Croydon Council this week announced £85,000 annual funding for the next two years for the Upper Norwood Library Trust to create a “community learning hub”.
  
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