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• The Milan Bar in Croydon town centre up for sale - Croydon Advertiser

  12-06-2017 22:38
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  The Milan Bar in Croydon town centre up for sale
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  The popular Wetherspoon's pub, next to the former Tiger Tiger nightclub in the Grants complex which is now home to Turtle Bay, was put on the market by the chain in April but will remain open until a buyer is found. An advert for the High Street ...
  
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• The Milan Bar in Croydon town centre up for sale

  12-06-2017 22:38 via croydonadvertiser.co.uk
  
  The Milan Bar in Croydon town centre is up for sale.The popular Wetherspoon's pub, next to the former Tiger Tiger nightclub in the Grants complex which is now home to Turtle Bay, was put on the market by the chain in April but will remain open until a buyer is found.An advert for the High Street watering hole online tells potential buyers how the "prime" town centre location will benefit from the Westfield/Hammerson development in the coming years during a 10-year leasehold on the...
  
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• 11-year-old Croydon girl writes letter asking for a job at Audi...

  12-06-2017 22:15 via croydonadvertiser.co.uk
  
  An 11-year-old girl who dreams of being an engineer has been flown to Germany by car giant Audi after writing a letter saying she wanted to work for them.Leona Burrell, from Forestdale, was offered the chance to see some of the most expensive cars in the world up close – and it all came from doing her homework.The car-mad youngster was told, like the rest of her classmates, to write a letter of persuasion and it could be addressed to anyone. READ MORE: Kind local man donates £1...
  
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• Kodi add-ons closed in crackdown on illegal streaming of movies,...

  12-06-2017 21:57 via croydonadvertiser.co.uk
  
  Add-ons which are used to illegally stream films, TV shows and Premier League football matches on Kodi boxes are being shutdown as part of a piracy clampdown.The perfectly legal unmodified set-top Kodia devices allow users to access hoards of online content, including official streaming services such as Netflix and Amazon Prime.READ MORE: The legal Kodi adds-ons you can safely use and the ones you shouldn'tBut, controversially, the boxes can also be used for illegal streaming. Because it uses an
  
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• Croydon College students explain why they voted Labour in 2017 general election - Croydon Advertiser

  12-06-2017 20:58
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  Croydon College students explain why they voted Labour in 2017 general election
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  Students from Croydon College have explained why they decided to vote for Croydon Central's new MP over her Conservative rival in last week's general election. In a rematch of the 2015 election battle for the same seat, Sarah Jones faced off against ...
  Gavin Barwell : Ex-Tory MP for Croydon Central appointed Downing Street's new chief of staffEvening Standard
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• Croydon College students explain why they voted Labour in 2017...

  12-06-2017 20:45 via croydonadvertiser.co.uk
  
  Students from Croydon College have explained why they decided to vote for Croydon Central's new MP over her Conservative rival in last week's general election.In a rematch of the 2015 election battle for the same seat, Sarah Jones faced off against Tory housing minister Gavin Barwell who was clinging onto a majority of just 165.It proved to be a crushing defeat for Mr Barwell, as Mrs Jones not only demolished his majority - but ended up building her own of more than 5,500 votes (29,873 to Mr...
  
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• Police worried for mother who is missing with her five-year-old...

  12-06-2017 19:36 via croydonadvertiser.co.uk
  
  Police are growing increasingly concerned about a mother who has been missing with five-year-old daughter for almost three weeks.The Metropolitan Police are worried about the safety of Zirwa Javaid and her daughter Nurjenna Javaid-Khan due to the lack of contact there has been with any family or friends.Officers know the pair, who are from Tooting, are known to frequent the Croydon area.READ MORE: Police are becoming increasingly concerned for the welfare of a missing Beckenham womanZirwa, 36,..
  
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• Trams could slow themselves down if drivers go over the speed...

  12-06-2017 19:30 via croydonadvertiser.co.uk
  
  Transport for London (TfL) is looking into installing automatic speed monitoring on trams in Croydon to slow them down if drivers go above the limit, seven months after the fatal tram crash. Currently, trams across the country generally operate on a "line-of-sight" principle enabling drivers to stop their trams manually regardless of whether they are driving on stretches where the tracks share roads or if they are on railway track-like stretches. Installing an automatic vehicle...
  
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• Sarah Jones explains what her priorities are as Croydon Central's...

  12-06-2017 19:17 via croydonadvertiser.co.uk
  
  It may only be 3pm in the afternoon, but as the Advertiser meets Sarah Jones she looks exhausted. It is hardly surprising, though, as Croydon's first ever female MP - giving her first in-depth interview, last Friday - still hasn't managed to get any sleep since her emphatic election triumph.The battle for Croydon Central was meant to be excruciatingly close, but she beat her Conservative rival Gavin Barwell with ease in the end, to become the constituency's first Labour MP since 2001. During a..
  
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• Man taken to hospital with head injuries after car crash in...

  12-06-2017 19:00 via croydonadvertiser.co.uk
  
  A middle-aged man was taken to a major trauma centre as a priority patient after suffering head injuries in a crash involving two cars in Coulsdon over the weekend.The collision took place at around 3.15pm on Saturday (June 10) on Downs Road near to its junctions with Marlpit Lane and Ditches Lane with at least six emergency vehicles at the scene until 6pm - including firefighters, paramedics and police officers.Three people were injured in the crash, including the 50 year-old driver of one of..
  
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• Croydon tram crash: TfL to add warning systems to trams - BBC News - BBC News

  12-06-2017 18:21
  
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  Croydon tram crash: TfL to add warning systems to trams - BBC News
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  Transport for London is working on an in-cab alert system for monitoring and managing speed.and more »
  
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• Croydon tram crash: TfL to add warning systems to trams - BBC News

  12-06-2017 18:21
  
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  Croydon tram crash: TfL to add warning systems to trams
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  Transport for London (TfL) is to introduce speed monitoring devices on its trams to tell drivers if they are going too fast and to apply the brake. It comes in the wake of the Croydon tram crash in November. The derailment killed seven people and ...and more »
  
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• New lessons at Croydon schools will teach children why they shouldn't drop litter - Croydon Advertiser

  12-06-2017 18:05
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  New lessons at Croydon schools will teach children why they shouldn't drop litter
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  Pupils at Croydon's primary and secondary schools will soon be taught not to fly-tip or drop litter as part of a new scheme which aims to make the borough cleaner. The council's Don't Mess With Croydon (DMWC) campaign, which aims to "send a firm ...
  
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• More than 100 people sign donor register to try and save life of...

  12-06-2017 18:00 via croydonadvertiser.co.uk
  
  Terminally ill TV bailiff Delroy Anglin saw first-hand the love and support from the Croydon community trying to help him as in the space of two hours more than one hundred people signed up to "save his life".The Croydon born and bred star of Channel 5's Can't Pay We'll Take it Away was diagnosed with a rare and aggressive form off leukaemia earlier this year. His one hope of being rid of the terminal bone blood cancer is to find a perfect match for a life-saving bone-marrow...
  
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• New lessons at Croydon schools will teach children why they...

  12-06-2017 17:49 via croydonadvertiser.co.uk
  
  Pupils at Croydon's primary and secondary schools will soon be taught not to fly-tip or drop litter as part of a new scheme which aims to make the borough cleaner. The council's Don't Mess With Croydon (DMWC) campaign, which aims to "send a firm message to anyone who blights our borough with litter", is targeting young people in the latest phase of the campaign, which is being called Young People Taking Pride. Lesson plans for primary school pupils have been drawn up by the council's...
  
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• Cyclist killed 'after lorry driver hit and dragged' her along Croydon road - BBC News

  12-06-2017 17:15
  
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  Cyclist killed 'after lorry driver hit and dragged' her along Croydon road
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  A lorry driver dragged a cyclist 14 metres under his wheels after he hit her on a narrow road, a court heard. Darren Anderton, 49 from Nuneaton, Warwickshire, denies causing the death of 25-year-old Magda Tadaj by careless driving last May. The Old ...
  Croydon cyclist dragged 14 metres under the wheels of a lorry before driver carried on with his delivery, court hearsThe Sunall 6 news articles &raq
  
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• Croydon murder investigation: Police name victim who was shot ... - Croydon Advertiser

  12-06-2017 17:02
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  The man who was fatally shot in a drive-by shooting in Croydon town centre has been named by police as Tinodiwanashe Makwanya. Detectives investigating ...
  Croydon drive-by shooting: Victim named as Tinodiwanashe MakwanyaBBC News
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• Croydon murder investigation: Police name victim who was shot...

  12-06-2017 16:35 via croydonadvertiser.co.uk
  
  The man who was fatally shot in a drive-by shooting in Croydon town centre has been named by police as Tinodiwanashe Makwanya.Detectives investigating the murder of the 24-year-old, who was shot in the head, say they have "an open mind" as to the motive behind Mr Makwanya's death. So far, the Metropolitan Police say there have been no arrests. A murder investigation was launched after police were called at 10.06pm on Friday (June 9) to reports of a shooting around the area where...
  
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• Lorry driver 'ran over cyclist and drove off to make delivery as...

  12-06-2017 15:05 via croydonadvertiser.co.uk
  
  The lorry driver involved in a fatal collision with a young cyclist in Croydon only briefly stopped as she lay dying at the scene before driving off to carry on with his delivery routine, a court has heard. Darren Anderton, 49, denies causing the death of 25-year-old Magda Tadaj by careless driving in St James's Road on May 23 last year. His trial got underway today (Monday, June 12) at the Old Bailey. Prosecutor Ian McLoughlin told the court that Ms Tadaj had been struck by Anderton's black...
  
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• Kind local man donates £1 million to new Thornton Heath...

  12-06-2017 14:20 via croydonadvertiser.co.uk
  
  A local man who wanted to remain anonymous has donated £1 million to a Thornton Heath youth centre due to open at the end of next year. Work on the new Legacy Youth Zone at the site of the formerWhitehorse Youth Centre, in Whitehorse Road, is due to begin this autumn and be completed by next autumn with a predicted formal opening before the end of 2018. Run by the charity OnSide, the centre will offer more than 20 activities, be open year-round and stage activities at weekends and during..
  
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• Police release result of post-mortem into death of Croydon...

  12-06-2017 14:01 via croydonadvertiser.co.uk
  
  The Metropolitan Police have revealed the result of the post-mortem examination which was carried out on a24-year-old man who was shot dead during a drive-by shooting in Croydon town centre on Friday night. The victim, who is yet to be named by police, was shot in the head on Park Lane shortly after 10pm. At this early stage police say the victim was a passenger inside a Volkswagen car when a motorcyclist with a pillion passenger pulled up alongside and shots were then fired. The victim died...
  
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• Let's make Croydon's GP services carer-friendly - The Croydon Citizen

  12-06-2017 13:00
  
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  Let's make Croydon's GP services carer-friendly
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  How should Croydon support those who spend so much of their time caring for others? Photo by Lynne Featherstone, used under Creative Commons licence. There are over 33,000 people in the borough of Croydon looking after a friend, family member or ...and more »
  
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• New cycling routes could be built in Croydon over the next five years - Your Local Guardian

  12-06-2017 12:51
  
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  New cycling routes could be built in Croydon over the next five years
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  Croydon Council has revealed a series of cycle routes to get people out of their cars and onto a bike. This map outlines where Croydon's proposed cycle routes would be implemented over the next five years. By 2022, Croydon could have a network of ...
  
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• Missing Croydon teenager found 'safe and well' - Croydon Advertiser

  12-06-2017 11:06
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  Missing Croydon teenager found 'safe and well'
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  Tye McNally was reunited with her family on Sunday afternoon (June 11) after disappearing from her Monks Hill home last Tuesday morning (June 6). Her mum, Natalie Mcnally, posted a statement on her social media pages and in community Facebook ...
  
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• Shocking footage of pensioner being attacked in Crystal Palace as...

  12-06-2017 10:37 via croydonadvertiser.co.uk
  
  This footage shows the shocking moment a pensioner is robbed and pushed to the ground in a Crystal Palace alleyway.Police investigating the robbery released the footage in the hunt for the man who attacked the 77-year-old woman and stole her necklace near the Royal Albert pub in Westow Street.The victim had been shopping in Crystal Palace when she walked through an alleyway at about 12.20pm on Friday, September 30 last year.CCTV footage shows the woman being approached by a man who lunges at...
  
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• Convicted 'dangerous' sex offender from Shirley has jail sentence...

  12-06-2017 10:20 via croydonadvertiser.co.uk
  
  A Shirley man who blamed a shocking sex attack on a friend's advice that it would "make him normal" has had his jail term almost halved on appeal.Ladislav Zigmund had been having "disturbing", sexually violent, thoughts before he attacked the woman, London's Criminal Appeal Court heard.The 34-year-old said after his arrest that he had been acting on advice from a friend who told him his feelings were "normal".READ MORE: Croydon University Hospital doctor sacked amid...
  
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• Missing Croydon teenager found 'safe and well'

  12-06-2017 10:07 via croydonadvertiser.co.uk
  
  A 13-year-old girl has been found 'safe and well' after going missing from her family home for five days. Tye McNally was reunited with her family on Sunday afternoon (June 11) after disappearing from her Monks Hill home last Tuesday morning (June 6). Her mum, Natalie Mcnally, posted a statement on her social media pages and in community Facebook groups thanking those who helped find Tye. READ MORE: Police are becoming increasingly concerned for the welfare of a missing Beckenham womanShe wrote:
  
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• Drive-by shooting in Croydon - The Voice Online (blog)

  12-06-2017 00:27
  
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  Drive-by shooting in Croydon
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  A 24-year-old man was has died after being shot in the head in Wellesley Road, Croydon, south London, shortly after 10pm on Friday. The victim was in the passenger seat of a car and was taken to hospital by the driver, who also suffered injuries. He ...
  
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• Drive-by shooting in Croydon - The Voice Online

  12-06-2017 00:27
  
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  Drive-by shooting in Croydon
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  A 24-year-old man was has died after being shot in the head in Wellesley Road, Croydon, south London, shortly after 10pm on Friday. The victim was in the passenger seat of a car and was taken to hospital by the driver, who also suffered injuries. He ...
  
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