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  • Who’s a pretty boy then?

    This chirpy fellow has had an eventful few weeks. The cockatiel is being cared for by a family in Kenley after it became lost and disorientated and flew into a children’s nursery in Sandown Road, South Norwood. Staff at Croydon Opportunity Pre-school

  • Council vehicle clean-up

    Part of Croydon’s fleet of vehicles has been modified to reduce the emission of harmful gases. New ‘traps’ have been fitted to 22 council vehicles which will reduce the emission of the gases by between 80 and 95 per cent. A further six vehicles are

  • Survey on crime said to be flawed

    A survey showing two out of three people in Croydon feel crime is rising has been branded as flawed because the results were based on a very small sample. The London-wide questionnaire, conducted by the London Assembly Conservative group, was sent to

  • Plan to improve town centre

    The council is hoping businesses will agree to a one per cent tax increase in order to raise £5million for town centre improvements. Croydon Council is planning to ballot businesses on the plan which will raise extra money over the next five years for

  • Church hall fire: ‘Ungraceful end’

    Arsonists are believed to have started a fire which gutted a church hall just days before it was due to be bulldozed to make way for a new development. Firefighters were called to St Mildred’s Church in Bingham Road, Addiscombe, just before 9.20pm on

  • Breast-feeding boob by store restaurant

    It prides itself on being a ‘parent-friendly’ family establishment, but a big boob at Debenhams may have cost the store the custom of the very people it claims to cater for. Two new mums were left humiliated and fuming when they were told to stop breastfeeding