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• Watch Joey Essex dancing outside a Croydon kebab shop ... - Croydon Advertiser

  10-02-2017 22:18 via croydonadvertiser.co.uk
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  Fans of TOWIE star Joey Essex were given a treat this evening as the Essex-based celeb visited Croydon town centre to officially open a new gourmet kebab ...and more »
  
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• Car crashes into teenagers waiting at Whyteleafe bus stop

  10-02-2017 21:38 via croydonadvertiser.co.uk
  
  A car crashed into three teenagers waiting at a bus stop in Whyteleafe during school pick up time.Police were to reports of a black Hyundai that had mounted the pavement on Godstone Road opposite the BP garage and hit the three youngsters waiting at the bus stop.One was taken to hospital as a precautionary measure and two were treated at the scene by paramedics. All three sustained minor injuries in the crash.The driver is currently assisting police with enquiries, Surrey Police said in a...
  
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• Watch Joey Essex dancing outside a Croydon kebab shop

  10-02-2017 21:34 via croydonadvertiser.co.uk
  
  Fans of TOWIE star Joey Essex were in for a treat this evening as the Essex-based celeb came to Croydon town centre to open a new gourmet kebab store. The 26-year-old said he was "Joey Croydon" for the day as he arrived to the George Street based store, German Donner Kebab (GDK). GDK is not your average kebab shop, as it prides itself on serving 100 per cent lean meat with no additives or preservations in its meals.
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• ​Norbury florist selling enormous red roses for Valentine's Day - Croydon Advertiser

  10-02-2017 21:16 via croydonadvertiser.co.uk
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  ​Norbury florist selling enormous red roses for Valentine's Day
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  A Norbury florist who sold roses as tall as a four-year-old for Valentine's Day last year has gone "bigger and better this year" – selling FIVE FOOT flowers. Sam Jennings has ordered in the specialist red roses from Ecuador for those wanting to give ...
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• ​Norbury florist selling enormous red roses for Valentine's Day

  10-02-2017 20:25 via croydonadvertiser.co.uk
  
  A Norbury florist who sold roses as tall as a four-year-old for Valentine's Day last year has gone "bigger and better this year" – selling FIVE FOOT flowers.Sam Jennings has ordered in the specialist red roses from Ecuador for those wanting to give their other half a very big surprise on Tuesday, February 14.Sam, who runs independent stall Flower Girl London in Norbury train station, sold out of her one metre roses before the romantic day last year.And hopes that all 25 of these...
  
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• £14m given to Croydon Council's cultural quarter and Fairfield Halls scheme - Croydon Advertiser

  10-02-2017 20:02 via croydonadvertiser.co.uk
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  £14m given to Croydon Council's cultural quarter and Fairfield Halls scheme
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  Croydon Council has been given £14 million by the Government to put towards its cultural quarter scheme. The first phase of the College Green regeneration started in July 2015 when the keys for Fairfield Halls were handed over to the council by the ...
  
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• £14m given to Croydon Council's cultural quarter and...

  10-02-2017 19:13 via croydonadvertiser.co.uk
  
  Croydon Council has been given £14 million by the Government to put towards its cultural quarter scheme.The first phase of the College Green regeneration started in July 2015 when the keys for Fairfield Halls were handed over to the council by the trust that previously ran it.Work then began to start a £30 million two-year refurbishment on the theatre, which is being developed by the council's own company Brick by Brick.Some have questioned the progress of the council's revamp plans,
  
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• The 11 worst roads to drive on in Croydon - Croydon Advertiser

  10-02-2017 19:01 via croydonadvertiser.co.uk
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  The 11 worst roads to drive on in Croydon
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  All roads lead to Rome, the old saying goes - except in Croydon it often seems that they only lead to fury, frustration and the incessant beeping of horns. For all Croydon's charms, its lack of motorways and its abundance of traffic lights, roundabouts ...and more »
  
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• The 11 worst roads to drive on in Croydon | Croydon Advertiser - Croydon Advertiser

  10-02-2017 19:00 via croydonadvertiser.co.uk
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  All roads lead to Rome, the old saying goes - except in Croydon it often seems that they only lead to fury, frustration and the incessant beeping of horns. For all ...and more »
  
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• Watch burglars shamelessly ransacking a South Norwood church

  10-02-2017 18:43 via croydonadvertiser.co.uk
  
  The priest of a Polish church in South Norwood has given the Croydon Advertiser CCTV footage of two thieves breaking in to his church in a last desperate attempt to try and identify them. Jerzy Mikrut, who is the head priest at Parafia Jezusa Milosiernego [The Church of the Merciful Jesus Christ], on Oliver Grove, is upset that the police have not yet been able to catch the burglars. So, six months on from the crime, he has decided to release the footage of the break-in, in July 2016, in the...
  
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• The 11 worst roads to drive on in Croydon

  10-02-2017 18:24 via croydonadvertiser.co.uk
  
  All roads lead to Rome, the old saying goes - except in Croydon it often seems that they only lead to fury, frustration and the incessant beeping of horns. For all Croydon's charms, its lack of motorways and its abundance of traffic lights, roundabouts and confusing junctions can make it a place of nightmares for a nervous driver. The desperate motorist might even be tempted by a Southern Rail season ticket after tackling Croydon's idiosyncratic road system. Might.READ MORE: Plan to extend free.
  
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• Major Croydon roads to be partially closed for 10 nights

  10-02-2017 18:24 via croydonadvertiser.co.uk
  
  Night-time closures on main roads in Croydon town centre are due to start tonight (Friday).From Friday, February 10 to Monday, February 20 various works will be taking place along Wellesley Road, Croydon Council announced today. From 10pm until 5am during this period, Croydon Underpass will be closed in both directions for essential maintenance. There will also be no exit onto Wellesley Road from Lansdowne Road and Sydenham Road from Friday, February 10 through to Saturday, February 18 during...
  
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• More than half of homeless people in Croydon assaulted while sleeping rough, worrying data reveals - Croydon Guardian

  10-02-2017 18:12 via croydonguardian.co.uk
  
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  More than half of homeless people in Croydon assaulted while sleeping rough, worrying data reveals
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  More than half of all homeless people in Croydon have reported they had been attacked while sleeping on the streets, a harrowing new report reveals. And according to the report, Croydon has the seventh highest number of people sleeping rough in the ...and more »
  
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• 'Blue Monday' and the work of south London charities to beat the mental health stigma

  10-02-2017 18:09 via yourlocalguardian.co.uk
  
  The idea of Blue Monday, this year celebrated on January 16, was first publicised in 2005 as part of a press release from a holiday company, which claimed to have calculated the date using an equation.
  
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• Concerns over 'increase in gang violence' as more criminal cases...

  10-02-2017 17:43 via croydonadvertiser.co.uk
  
  There could be a potential increase in gang-related crimes and delayed access to justice when more court cases come to Croydon Magistrates' Court later this year, it has been claimed.The decision to close Camberwell Green Magistrates' Court was announced on Wednesday with adult court cases to come to Croydon and youth cases to go to Bromley Magistrates' Courts. It is thought the court could close between October and December 2018.During a public consultation on the proposals last year, 62 people
  
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• Police hunting for man who dropped knife and ran off tram - Croydon Advertiser

  10-02-2017 17:22 via croydonadvertiser.co.uk
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  Police are searching for a man who dropped a knife with a six-inch blade and ran off a Croydon tram as he fled from officers. Just after 9.15pm on Wednesday (February 8), British Transport Police (BTP) officers were at Wandle Park tram stop when their ...
  
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• More than half of homeless people in Croydon assaulted while sleeping rough, worrying data reveals

  10-02-2017 17:22 via yourlocalguardian.co.uk
  
  More than half of all homeless people in Croydon have reported they had been attacked while sleeping on the streets, a harrowing new report reveals.
  
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• Wrap up warm: Met office issues severe weather warning as freezing temperatures to continue into the weekend

  10-02-2017 17:19 via yourlocalguardian.co.uk
  
  The freezing temperatures are set to continue in London for weekend, with a windchill feel in the minus figures.
  
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• Police hunting for man who dropped knife and ran off tram

  10-02-2017 17:00 via croydonadvertiser.co.uk
  
  Police are searching for a man who dropped a knife with a six-inch blade and ran off a Croydon tram as he fled from officers. Just after 9.15pm on Wednesday (February 8), British Transport Police (BTP) officers were at Wandle Park tram stop when their attention was drawn to a group of men on a tram pulling in. When spotted, one of the men in the group dropped a knife and ran away from officers as he got off the tram.
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• 'It shouldn't be forgotten': South London students learn horrors of Holocaust on visit to Auschwitz

  10-02-2017 16:59 via yourlocalguardian.co.uk
  
  Freezing conditions served as a reminder to hundreds of student visitors at the Nazi death camps Auschwitz-Birkenau of the brutal conditions millions were forced to suffer.
  
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• PICTURES: Design works starts on car-free bridge

  10-02-2017 16:21 via yourlocalguardian.co.uk
  
  A design team is starting works for a new car-free bridge across the Thames in central London.
  
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• PHOTOS: Ultra stylish Caterham home on sale for offers over...

  10-02-2017 13:34 via croydonadvertiser.co.uk
  
  A stylishly designed five-bedroom detached house in Caterham is up for sale for offers over £900,000. The Linden Homes built house in Stirling Drive has views of and direct access onto Coulsdon Common.The "American" style home is situated on a private road on the award-winning development The Village.Built in 2004, the property provides almost 3,000 square feet of living space. This includes a spacious leisure room which was previously a double garage. The house has been...
  
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• Bonfires and wood burning stoves could be banned in Croydon - Croydon Advertiser

  10-02-2017 13:01 via croydonadvertiser.co.uk
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  Bonfires and wood burning stoves could be banned in Croydon
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  Banning bonfires, restrictions on wood burning stoves and patrols to fine motorists with idling engines are all being considered as measures to tackle Croydon's air pollution problem - which is claiming the lives of 155 of the borough's residents every ...and more »
  
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• The Met Office warns that heavy snow is set to fall in Croydon...

  10-02-2017 12:54 via croydonadvertiser.co.uk
  
  The Met Office is forecasting that heavy snow is going to fall in Croydon this afternoon. Throughout the week it hasn't been forecasting snow to fall at all. But this morning an updated forecast warns of heavy snow between midday and 1pm. It also warns that there is likely to be sleet between 1pm and 2pm and then more light snow up until 4pm. At 7pm more light snow is predicted. A further flurry of light snow is also forecast at 5am tomorrow (Saturday morning).READ MORE: Why are there so few...
  
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• Plan to extend free parking to one hour to cost about £135,...

  10-02-2017 12:27 via croydonadvertiser.co.uk
  
  Plans for an hour's free parking to be extended across Croydon's district centres could cost about £135,000.Croydon Council announced it would go ahead with its manifesto commitment to introduce free parking for one hour in all of the borough's district centres, after the policy had initially been abandoned last year.The move - designed to boost local businesses - was rubber-stamped during a meeting of the council's traffic management committee on Wednesday (February 8).Though the...
  
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• Court closures will mean 'rise in gang violence' and 'miscarriages of justice' as Croydon and Bromley take on workload

  10-02-2017 12:06 via yourlocalguardian.co.uk
  
  A rise in gang violence and miscarriages of justice will be the result of Croydon Magistrates’ Court’s extra cases from another court that is being closed down, it has been claimed.
  
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• Bonfires and wood burning stoves could be banned in Croydon

  10-02-2017 11:30 via croydonadvertiser.co.uk
  
  Banning bonfires, restrictions on wood burning stoves and patrols to fine motorists with idling engines are all being considered as measures to tackle Croydon's air pollution problem - which is claiming the lives of 155 of the borough's residents every year.The "invisible" health epidemic is such a problem that Croydon is among the worst 25 per cent of local authorities in the country when it comes to pollution-related deaths.If particulate air pollution was eliminated, it would boost...
  
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• Thornton Heath man who forced teen to down drink and drugs before...

  10-02-2017 11:23 via croydonadvertiser.co.uk
  
  A cab office controller who brutally raped a teenage girl at his Thornton Heath flat after "forcibly pouring" drink and drugs down her throat until she was nearly unconscious, has lost his appeal in court to clear his name.Jerome Stephenson was jailed for 12 years years at the Old Bailey in July 2015 after jurors convicted him of raping the vulnerable 18-year-old old.The 34-year-old plied her with cocaine and ecstasy and poured alcohol down her throat until she was "knocked...
  
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• Train delays through West Croydon station and passengers diverted due to signalling problems - Croydon Advertiser

  10-02-2017 10:06 via croydonadvertiser.co.uk
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  Train delays through West Croydon station and passengers diverted due to signalling problems
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  Rail commuters are facing delays getting to work and school this morning due to a signalling problem at West Croydon station which is also diverting passengers. Southern Rail has warned passengers to expect 20 minute delays to and from West Croydon ...
  
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• Chessington has a job for a new sea lion trainer at its Sea Life...

  10-02-2017 10:03 via croydonadvertiser.co.uk
  
  Do you love animals? If so, then Chessington World of Adventures could be advertising your dream job. The popular theme park and zoo, off Leatherhead Road, is seeking a new trainer for its sea lions at the Sea Life Centre. The successful applicant will help look after the sea mammals and be in charge of presenting shows with the sea lions to visitors. READ MORE: Fantastic farms, zoos, wildlife parks and aquariums in London, Surrey, Kent and SussexThe job advert reads: "We are...
  
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• Train delays through West Croydon station and passengers diverted...

  10-02-2017 09:29 via croydonadvertiser.co.uk
  
  Rail commuters are facing delays getting to work and school this morning due to a signalling problem at West Croydon station which is also diverting passengers.Southern Rail has warned passengers to expect 20 minute delays to and from West Croydon station this morning (Friday, February 10). The rail operator has said signalling problems will mean passengers face delays, or being diverted through East Croydon station for services running to London Bridge. READ MORE: Southern Rail and ASLEF...
  
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• TRAVEL: Signalling failure at West Croydon causing delays of up to 20 minutes for commuters

  10-02-2017 09:08 via yourlocalguardian.co.uk
  
  A signalling failure at West Croydon station is causing delays of up to 20 minutes. 
  
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• Man in his 60s in a critical condition after being hit by...

  10-02-2017 08:53 via croydonadvertiser.co.uk
  
  A man hit by a double-decker bus in Purley has spent the night in a critical condition at a major trauma centre after suffering a serious head injury.Traffic came to a standstill after a man in his 60s was hit by a bus on Brighton Road yesterday (Thursday, February 9), which was closed off while police investigated.Emergency services were called at around 3.50pm.London air ambulance attended but the man was taken by land to a trauma a centre after being treated at the scene for between 30 and 40
  
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• Police on horses on patrol in Croydon town centre - Croydon Advertiser

  10-02-2017 00:01 via croydonadvertiser.co.uk
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  Police on horses on patrol in Croydon town centre
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  The high visibility police presence comes days after a huge fight in which a 14-year-old schoolboy was stabbed in the neck. A police spokesman said this evening that he wasn't able to say whether or not horseback patrols were a specific tactic to ...
  
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