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• Here's what you should do if you get a nasty bite from a horsefly...

  25-07-2017 23:30 via croydonadvertiser.co.uk
  
  In summer there always seem to be a host of midges and creepy crawlies ready to swarm through the window and deliver an itchy bite.But there is one particularly fearsome and bloodthirsty creature which can provide a nasty bite.The stocky horsefly has razor sharp jaws which can carve a painful bite, and unlike other night time nibblers this critter rips open the skin instead of piercing it – making the bite more painful and prone to infection.READ MORE: Ten parks and open spaces in Croydon.
  
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• Watch: Croydon street artist paints amazing gay kiss mural in...

  25-07-2017 22:20 via croydonadvertiser.co.uk
  
  A Croydon street artist is in the process of colouring a huge mural depicting a gay kiss on Surrey Street this evening (Tuesday, July 25). Rich Simmons, who also drew the famous Batman kissing Superman mural in Park Street, designed the piece in the hope of making Croydon more colourful and inclusive as part of a project set up by RISE Gallery, on George Street. He had to use an electric cherry-picker to sketch then colour the artwork, which is on the side of Don's Cafe, near Matthew's Yard.Rich
  
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• New Addington man used hammer to smash windows to save elderly...

  25-07-2017 21:00 via croydonadvertiser.co.uk
  
  A New Addington man has described how he bravely started smashing the windows and front door of his elderly neighbour's home as he prepared to go inside to rescue her while her house was on fire in the middle of the night. Fire crews from New Addington station were called to a house in Brierley, off Field Way, at 11.26pm last night (Monday, July 24) after Tony Berry called 999.The 50-year-old, who has lived in the road for six years, was trying to get to sleep last night but he "kept...
  
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• Man pronounced dead at Croydon town centre hotel -Recap ... - Croydon Advertiser

  25-07-2017 20:46
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  Police are investigating after a man was pronounced dead at a Croydon town centre hotel. Police cars and ambulances were seen outside the Jurys Inn Hotel ...
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• Schoolboy, 6, fighting cancer meets Santa in July as he was too...

  25-07-2017 19:51 via croydonadvertiser.co.uk
  
  A Wallington schoolboy has celebrated Christmas and met Santa Claus in July after he was too poorly at Christmas following cancer treatment.Jasper Lilley was diagnosed with a rare form of cancer, medulloblastoma, which only 40 children a year are diagnosed with, last September when he was just five after suffering for months with headaches.He went for check-ups at the opticians', the doctors' and the hospital but his poor health was initially put down to migraines, tonsillitis and other minor...
  
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• The Shirley teenager who walked the entire Croydon tram route for an amazing reason - Croydon Advertiser

  25-07-2017 19:44
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  The Shirley teenager who walked the entire Croydon tram route for an amazing reason
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  A teenager from Shirley believes he is the first person to have walked all 19 miles of Croydon's tram network in a day after accomplishing the feat on Saturday (July 22). Josh Pooley, 19, completed the walk in around six hours to raise money to make ...
  
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• Police provide update on man found dead at Jurys Inn hotel in...

  25-07-2017 19:15 via croydonadvertiser.co.uk
  
  Police investigating the death of a man found in a room at a hotel in Croydon town centre have provided an update.Several police cars and two ambulances were seen outside the Jurys Inn Hotel on the corner of Wellesley Road and Lansdowne Road shortly before 1pm today (July 25). Metropolitan Police officers confirmed a man was pronounced dead in a room at the hotel at around 1.25pm. READ MORE: Boy, 15, admits stabbing teenager in Croydon town centre A spokesman for the Met said at the time:...
  
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• The Shirley teenager who walked the entire Croydon tram route for...

  25-07-2017 19:06 via croydonadvertiser.co.uk
  
  A teenager from Shirley believes he is the first person to have walked all 19 miles of Croydon's tram network in a day after accomplishing the feat on Saturday (July 22). Josh Pooley, 19, completed the walk in around six hours to raise money to make "care boxes" for London's homeless, vlogging (video blogging) about the challenge as he took it on. Starting at New Addington tram stop he made his way to each of Tramlink's other 38 stops. The only "short cut" he took was...
  
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• Wallington woman admits defrauding 'devastated' Red Cross out of £350000 - Croydon Advertiser

  25-07-2017 19:01
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  Wallington woman admits defrauding 'devastated' Red Cross out of £350000
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  A Wallington woman who worked for the British Red Cross had admitted embezzling more than £350,000 from the charity. Mary Booth, of The Elms in Croydon Road, pleaded guilty to charge of embezzlement of £359,551.27 from the charity's accounts over ...
  
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• Wallington woman admits defrauding 'devastated' Red Cross out of...

  25-07-2017 18:35 via croydonadvertiser.co.uk
  
  A Wallington woman who worked for the British Red Cross had admitted embezzling more than £350,000 from the charity.Mary Booth, of The Elms in Croydon Road, pleaded guilty to charge of embezzlement of £359,551.27 from the charity's accounts over seven years.She entered the plea at Paisley Sheriff Court in Scotland last week.According to the Red Cross, Booth worked as the charity's payroll manager, starting in 2008, and began making payments that were going to accounts set up in her..
  
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• The Glamorgan pub in Addiscombe could be saved from demolition...

  25-07-2017 18:30 via croydonadvertiser.co.uk
  
  An Addiscombe pub which is facing demolition could be saved after enough residents signed a petition to preserve it. More than 40 people attended a meeting regarding the future of The Glamorgan pub at Croydon Town Hall last night, with all signing a petition to have the pub recognised as an Asset of Community Value (ACV). An ACV is land or property of importance to a local community which is subject to additional legal protection from being developed or demolished. At least 21 people need to...
  
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• Boy, 15, admits stabbing teenager in Croydon town centre - Croydon Advertiser

  25-07-2017 17:54
  Boy, 15, admits stabbing teenager in Croydon town centre
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  The victim, also aged 15, was rushed to hospital as a priority patient after emergency services were called to St George's Walk at 3.40pm on Tuesday, July 11. An air ambulance was seen landing on nearby College Green, next to Fairfield Halls, ...
  
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• Croydon woman describes what it was like to spend 30 years living in an asylum - Croydon Advertiser

  25-07-2017 17:52
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  Croydon woman describes what it was like to spend 30 years living in an asylum
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  A pensioner who spent decades in a notorious asylum fears cutting mental health funding in Croydon would take care quality 'back to the times of the asylum'. 77-year-old Anne Soppitt was just 11 when she was taken into care as a troubled youngster.
  
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• An ex-lorry driver from Caterham thought he was encouraging a 13-year-old to send indecent images

  25-07-2017 17:29 via yourlocalguardian.co.uk
  An former lorry driver who tried to encourage what he thought was a 13-year-old girl to send indecent images has been jailed.
  
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• Boy, 15, admits stabbing teenager in Croydon town centre

  25-07-2017 17:20 via croydonadvertiser.co.uk
  
  A 15-year-old boy has admitted stabbing another teenager in broad daylight in Croydon town centre earlier this month. The victim, also aged 15, was rushed to hospital as a priority patient after emergency services were called to St George's Walk at 3.40pm on Tuesday, July 11.An air ambulance was seen landing on nearby College Green, next to Fairfield Halls, as paramedics treated the teenager and police cordoned off a large section of the covered shopping area to look for evidence.Officers from..
  
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• Croydon woman describes what it was like to spend 30 years living...

  25-07-2017 17:10 via croydonadvertiser.co.uk
  
  A pensioner who spent decades in a notorious asylum fears cutting mental health funding in Croydon would take care quality 'back to the times of the asylum'.77-year-old Anne Soppitt was just 11 when she was taken into care as a troubled youngster.She has suffered the pain of electric shock therapy and the despair of being trapped in a padded cell during decades of treatment in the psychiatric unit now called Bethlem Royal Hospital in Beckenham - which was known as the Bedlam asylum.Now as...
  
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• The Glamorgan pub lives to fight another day

  25-07-2017 16:05 via yourlocalguardian.co.uk
  In an attempt to save the Glamorgan pub from demolition, more than 40 people turned out to a meeting at town hall on Monday.
  
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• The Croydon Video Game Arcade That's Recycled From The Trocadero - Londonist

  25-07-2017 15:45
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  The Croydon Video Game Arcade That's Recycled From The Trocadero
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  "I'm technically the last of a dying breed." Mark Starkey isn't being romantic, he's the last qualified arcade machine engineer in the UK. He was the only person taking the course in his year and the next year they stopped running it due to a lack of ...
  
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• A man has been found dead at Jurys Inn Hotel in Croydon

  25-07-2017 14:34 via yourlocalguardian.co.uk
  A man has been found dead at a hotel in Croydon.
  
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• Police cars and ambulances outside Croydon town centre hotel - latest updates - Croydon Advertiser

  25-07-2017 14:15
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  Police cars and ambulances outside Croydon town centre hotel - latest updates
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  At least four police cars and several ambulances have been seen outside a Croydon town centre hotel. The large emergency services presence was spotted outside the Jurys Inn Hotel on the corner of Wellesley Road and Lansdowne Road shortly before ...
  
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• Police cars and ambulances outside Croydon town centre hotel ... - Croydon Advertiser

  25-07-2017 14:15
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  Police cars and ambulances outside Croydon town centre hotel ...
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  At least four police cars and several ambulances have been seen outside a Croydon town centre hotel. The large emergency services presence was spotted ...
  A man has been found dead at Jurys Inn Hotel in Croydon (From ...Your Local Guardianall 2 news articles »
  
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• Man pronounced dead at Croydon town centre hotel -Recap

  25-07-2017 13:58 via croydonadvertiser.co.uk
  
  Police are investigating after a man was pronounced dead at a Croydon town centre hotel.Police cars and ambulances were seen outside the Jurys Inn Hotel on the corner of Wellesley Road and Lansdowne Road shortly before 1pm today (July 25). Witness Tav Sanassee said two ambulances, one rapid response doctor and four police vehicles alongside two vans were near the Lansdowne Road entrance to the hotel.
  A spokesman for the Metropolitan Police Service said: "We were called to reports of a...
  
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• Croydon cat killer 'may have beheaded a deer' - ITV News

  25-07-2017 13:29
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  Croydon cat killer 'may have beheaded a deer'
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  The so-called 'Croydon cat killer' is believed to have struck again - this time beheading a deer. Aerial view of Norwood and Croydon. The animal killer is thought to have killed more than 250 creatures and has now been linked to the mutilation of a ...
  
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• Watford eye move for centre-back previously linked to Crystal Palace - Croydon Advertiser

  25-07-2017 11:50
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  Watford eye move for centre-back previously linked to Crystal Palace
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  Valencia defender Aymen Abdennour, previously linked with a move to Crystal Palace, is attracting interest once again from the Premier League. The centre-back is a strong target for Watford ahead of the new season. Abdennour was one Valencia's standout ...and more »
  
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• The 'secret school' in Coulsdon that was a target for Soviet...

  25-07-2017 11:25 via croydonadvertiser.co.uk
  
  A few short years after the Second World War, the British armed forces had a problem. The new "enemy" in the rapidly escalating Cold War was the Soviet Union.That problem, though, was that barely anyone could speak Russian. And part of the solution was set up on a quiet military camp right next to Old Coulsdon.If the intelligence wings of the various armed forces, the Army, Navy and Royal Air Force, were going to be able to decode Russian messages, or even have enough trained...
  
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• Woman rescued from New Addington house fire

  25-07-2017 11:21 via croydonadvertiser.co.uk
  
  A woman was rescued from a house fire in New Addington on Monday night.Fire crews from New Addington station were called to the fire on Brierley, off Field Way, at 11.26pm following reports of a house fire. Once at the scene, firefighters wearing breathing apparatus rescued a woman from the building. READ MORE: Watch: The stunning new street art that has been put up in tribute to Croydon's musical stars The woman was suffering from smoke inhalation and taken to hospital by the London Ambulance..
  
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• Woman rescued from house fire in New Addington overnight

  25-07-2017 11:21 via yourlocalguardian.co.uk
  A woman was rescued by firefighters from a house blaze on Brierley off Field Way in New Addington last night.
  
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• How you can go to the beach this week without leaving Croydon

  25-07-2017 11:16 via croydonadvertiser.co.uk
  
  All the fun of the seaside is coming to Croydon this week - as a beach is being set up in one of town's parks and will be there for just over three weeks.Without having to leave Croydon, you can make use of your buckets and spade, as a travelling fun park is to come to Ashburton Park. READ MORE: Ten parks and open spaces in Croydon win Green Flag AwardsThe park, at the junction of Lower Addiscombe Road and Spring Lane, will have dodgem cars, a giant sandpit, deckchairs and crazy golf to recreate
  
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• Indian film-maker hoping a Croydon family can star in his next film

  25-07-2017 10:59 via yourlocalguardian.co.uk
  A film-maker from India is searching for a family to put in his next documentary, and he thinks they may just be from Croydon.
  
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• Second phase of Cane Hill Park development has been launched

  25-07-2017 10:43 via yourlocalguardian.co.uk
  The second phase of the Cane Hill Park development has been launched.
  
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• Transformers, road trains in disguise

  25-07-2017 10:31 via yourlocalguardian.co.uk
  A 150 wheel 400 tonne land train rolled into Croydon this week to deliver a power boost to the borough.
  
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• ADVERTORIAL: London Borough of Croydon - Report of Local Government Ombudsman - Croydon Advertiser

  25-07-2017 10:30
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  ADVERTORIAL: London Borough of Croydon - Report of Local Government Ombudsman
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  The Local Government Ombudsman has issued a report following her investigation of a complaint against London Borough of Croydon. The complaint was about a disabled children's social care services matter. The Ombudsman found that there had been ...
  
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• Croydon parks recognised as some of the best in the world

  25-07-2017 10:13 via yourlocalguardian.co.uk
  Ten parks and open spaces in Croydon have been recognised by the Green Flag Award Scheme as some of the very best in the world.
  
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• Man arrested on suspicion of the murder of Croydon primary school teacher Florina Pastina - Croydon Advertiser

  25-07-2017 09:47
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  Man arrested on suspicion of the murder of Croydon primary school teacher Florina Pastina
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  A man has been arrested on suspicion of the murder of Thornton Heath primary school teacher Florina Pastina. A 34-year-old man, originally arrested on suspicion of attempted murder, has been re-arrested on suspicion of murder. Ms Pastina, 36, a ...and more »
  
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• Man arrested on suspicion of the murder of Croydon primary school ... - Croydon Advertiser

  25-07-2017 09:47
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  A man has been arrested on suspicion of the murder of Thornton Heath primary school teacher Florina Pastina. A 34-year-old man, originally arrested on ...and more »
  
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• Man arrested for murder of Florina Pastina in hammer attack discharged from hospital

  25-07-2017 09:29 via yourlocalguardian.co.uk
  A man who was arrested following the murder of woman in a hammer attack was discharged from hospital yesterday (July 24).
  
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• Man arrested on suspicion of the murder of Croydon primary school...

  25-07-2017 09:23 via croydonadvertiser.co.uk
  
  A man has been arrested on suspicion of the murder of primary school teacher Florina Pastina.A 34-year-old man, originally arrested on suspicion of attempted murder, has been re-arrested on suspicion of murder.Ms Pastina, 36, a teacher at Kensington Avenue Primary School, in Thornton Heath,died on July 21 from serious head injuries believed to have been inflicted with a hammer at a residential address in Alpha Road, Croydon, two days earlier. The man was also arrested on suspicion of the...
  
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• Rail companies urged to hold fresh talks as union warns of ‘crisis’

  25-07-2017 09:09 via yourlocalguardian.co.uk
  Rail companies are being urged to hold fresh talks with unions in a bid to resolve the growing number of disputes over staffing and driver-only trains.
  
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• Ten parks and open spaces in Croydon win Green Flag Awards ... - Croydon Advertiser

  25-07-2017 09:03
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  Ten of Croydon's parks and open spaces have been recognised as some of the world's best. Millers Pond, Mitcham Road cemetery, Happy Valley, Coulsdon ...
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• London weather to be ‘unsettled regime’ of wind and rain for rest of July

  25-07-2017 08:39 via yourlocalguardian.co.uk
  London’s weather will be an “unsettled regime” of wind and rain, mixed with bursts of sunshine, for at least the rest of the month, according to the Met Office.
  
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• Ten parks and open spaces in Croydon win Green Flag Awards

  25-07-2017 08:15 via croydonadvertiser.co.uk
  
  Ten of Croydon's parks and open spaces have been recognised as some of the world's best. Millers Pond, Mitcham Road cemetery, Happy Valley, Coulsdon Memorial Ground, Haling Grove, Lloyd Park, Wandle Park, Wettern Tree Garden, Coombe Wood, and South Norwood Lake have all been given a Green Flag Award for 2017. The international award is given to public spaces which are seen to be "some of the very best in the world" – namely that they boast the highest possible environmental...
  
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• Single people from Croydon wanted to take part in ITV's new series of Dinner Date - Croydon Advertiser

  25-07-2017 02:58
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  Single people from Croydon wanted to take part in ITV's new series of Dinner Date
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  If the way to your heart is through your stomach, you're in luck because ITV is looking for singletons from Croydon to take part in its new series of Dinner Date. The popular dating show sees a single man or woman take the role of chef and choose three ...and more »
  
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• Single people from Croydon wanted to take part in ITV's new series ... - Croydon Advertiser

  25-07-2017 02:58
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  Single people from Croydon wanted to take part in ITV's new series ...
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  If the way to your heart is through your stomach, you're in luck because ITV is looking for singletons from Croydon to take part in its new series of Dinner Date.and more »
  
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