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• More strikes planned as talks between Southern and the RMT collapse over future of conductor roles

  30-04-2016 16:50
  
  The union and the company have blamed each other for the breakdown in talks
  
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• Lidl recalls tins of herring because label fails to warn it contains fish

  30-04-2016 16:30
  
  Lidl is recalling tins of its own brand herring because the label fails to warn customers that the product may contain fish and other allergens.
  
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• Croydon Central MP Gavin Barwell said to be under investigation by police after claims he broke election spending laws

  30-04-2016 12:32 via yourlocalguardian.co.uk
  
  The Conservative MP has been reported to police by a constituent after his election spending showed his office cost just £1.84 per day
  
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• ​Three men arrested after 23-year-old man stabbed in South...

  30-04-2016 11:14 via croydonadvertiser.co.uk
  
  THREE men have been arrested after a 23-year-old man was stabbed in South Norwood. Police were called to reports of a "group of males causing a disturbance" in Parry Road on Sunday. Officers attended but all the men had left the scene. At around 3.50am officers by London Ambulance Service after a 23-year-old man was found suffering stab injuries in Michael Road.He was taken to a south London hospital. Three males have arrested on suspicious of grievous bodily harm, a...
  
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• Police bail man, 26, who was arrested after crash in Kenley which...

  30-04-2016 10:36 via croydonadvertiser.co.uk
  
  A MAN man who was arrested after a crash injured a seven-year-old girl in Kenley this week has been bailed.Officers were called to Godstone Road at 8.55am on Thursday after two cars and a bus collided. The driver of one of the cars fled the scene before the police arrived.A seven-year-old girl, who was the passenger in the second car, sustained minor injuries.Police were informed that a man had been seen crossing railway lines close to Sunneydene Road before running into woodland, a Metropolitan
  
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• Super-sized SLUGS coming to gardens thanks to mild winter weather

  30-04-2016 10:30 via yourlocalguardian.co.uk
  
  A generation of sleepless super-sized slugs could ravage vegetable patches this summer thanks to unseasonably mild weather.
  
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• Croydon to lose a third of police bases as Met slashes costs - Croydon Advertiser

  30-04-2016 10:27 via croydonadvertiser.co.uk
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  Croydon to lose a third of police bases as Met slashes costs
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  CROYDON is to lose a third of its community police bases as the Met looks to cut costs. Scotland Yard has announced plans to shut five of Croydon's 13 safer neighbourhood team offices to save nearly £120,000. The bases – in South Croydon, Addiscombe, ...
  
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• Bank Holiday engineering work to be "least disruptive" of recent years as National Rail warn passengers to check before travel

  30-04-2016 10:22
  
  This Bank Holiday weekend is to be the least disrupted, with 96 per cent of the network operating as normal
  
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• Ukip Assembly candidate Peter Staveley admits he is not trying in...

  30-04-2016 10:00 via croydonadvertiser.co.uk
  
  THE Ukip candidate who said there was "no point" in campaigning in Croydon Central during the General Election said he will not be focusing his attention on the borough this time around either.Instead,Peter Staveley said he has targeted his campaign onSutton, where support for Ukip is stronger."We are a self-funding organisation so we have to target our resources to where we are going to win or make a significant difference," he said.He is also focusing his energy on the...
  
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• Travellers fight to make permanent home in Kenley field

  30-04-2016 10:00 via croydonadvertiser.co.uk
  
  TRAVELLERS who moved onto a Kenley field eight months ago are continuing to fight to make it their permanent home. The Doran family moved onto the land off Hawkhirst Road on the August bank holiday weekend last year and have since submitted a planning application to the council to make a permanent travellers' site there – which was refused. But last week a representative for the Planning Inspectorate visited the site to hear arguments for and against the family's appeal against the...
  
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• PHOTOS: 24 pictures of STUNNING property in Woldingham, on the...

  30-04-2016 10:00 via croydonadvertiser.co.uk
  
  PICTURES: 18 photos of a stunning property in Purley, worth £895,000PICTURES: 19 pictures of a stunning property in Caterham worth £1,295,000PICTURES: 18 photos of a stunning property in Purley, worth £895,000. Arranged over two floors the accommodation has been planned to take full advantage of the East–West orientation with four sets of doors opening onto the sun terrace. Double doors from the family section of the open plan kitchen afford a delightful aspect across to.
  
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• Mum told tumble dryer safe to use – then it caught fire in...

  30-04-2016 10:00 via croydonadvertiser.co.uk
  
  A SELHURST mum whose tumble dryer caught firehas hit out at Hotpoint after the company told her it was safe to use – despite a known fault.Tracy Addo had registered her dryer with the company in February after realising it was a model identified as potentially dangerous.Hotpoint told her it was safe to use the dryer until an engineer could makerepairs, but that would not be until April 2017.But on April 18 Tracy was doing some ironing in the kitchen of her Henderson Road flat when...
  
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• Croydon to lose a third of police bases as Met slashes costs

  30-04-2016 10:00 via croydonadvertiser.co.uk
  
  CROYDON is to lose a third of its community police bases as the Met looks to cut costs.Scotland Yard has announced plans to shut five of Croydon's 13 safer neighbourhood team offices to save nearly £120,000. The bases – in South Croydon, Addiscombe, Shirley, Coulsdon and Upper Norwood – are not used by the public, but provide a space from which teams can deploy and respond to calls.The Met says Croydon, and neighbouring Bromley, "retained a disproportionately high number...
  
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• All People's Party assembly candidate Madonna Lewis wants 24 hour...

  30-04-2016 10:00 via croydonadvertiser.co.uk
  
  Madonna Lewis, the candidate for the All People's Party, believes her background in working with people would ensure she represented Croydon in the Greater London Assembly.The former administrator at South Chelsea College for 27 years said her "passion for people" is what sets her aside from other candidates."I think I will be able to represent them [Croydon residents] and their views in the London Assembly without politics becoming an obstacle," said Ms Lewis, who has lived...
  
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• Bank Holiday Weekend weather: enjoy the sun while it lasts as Monday is set to be a washout

  30-04-2016 09:21
  
  Workers all over south west London and north Surrey can expect rain and fairly strong winds on the early May Day holiday this weekend. 
  
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• ​Man and child, 1, airlifted to hospital after 'falling from...

  30-04-2016 09:18 via croydonadvertiser.co.uk
  
  A MAN and a one-year-old child were airlifted to hospital after 'having fallen from a window' in Thornton Heath.Police, paramedics and London's Air Ambulance were called to the incident at 5.10pm on Monday to County Road.The man and a child were airlifted to hospital. Neither was in a critical condition, said a Metropolitan Police spokesman.The incident is not believed to be suspicious, he added.Did you see anything? Email [email protected].
  
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• Primary school gets £240k grant for building repairs

  30-04-2016 09:00 via croydonadvertiser.co.uk
  
  A PURLEY primary school has been granted up to £240,000 to make much-needed repairs to its building.New Valley Primary, in Old Lodge Lane, applied to the Education Funding Agency for the cash in December and was given the green light just before Easter. The school roof needs a "complete overhaul", head teacher Pete Steward said, while the children's toilets also need refurbishing.Mr Steward said New Valley, which replaced Wattenden Primary School when it closed in 2014, has made...
  
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