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  • Campaign to get people composting kitchen waste

    May 4, 2006. Recycle Western Riverside. Recycle Western Riverside (RWR) is urging people to start composting during Compost Awareness Week to help reduce the amount of rubbish that is sent to landfill sites. Compost Awareness Week 2006 takes

  • Stress advice for businesswomen

    Women's business support group The Women's Company is holding a networking event aimed at helping female entrepreneurs cope with stress. The workshop, which will be run by Caroline Heward, is called Bust your stress with chakra balancing', will give

  • Staff sing-a-long

    Staff from a school in Croydon put on their gladrags and danced the night away to raise more than £1,500 for charity. The event at Royal Russell School in Coombe Lane made £1,550 for the Cystic Fibrosis Trust and included performances from a staff rock

  • Fly the flag

    On April 23 the Cross of St George flew from the town hall, Taberner House, Croydon parish church, The George, The Star, the Duke's Head, The Rail View and my house. So what exactly was Steve Caldwell (Letters, April 26) looking at? St George's House

  • Theft under noses of mayor and councillors

    An opportunist burglar unplugged the sound system at the mayor's St George's Day ball and stole electronic equipment with almost nobody noticing. What made the crime all the more brazen was that guests included the cabinet member for crime prevention

  • Honour killing woman’s body found in suitcase

    Police have discovered the body of a young woman in a suitcase in Birmingham two months after a South Norwood man was charged with her murder. Banaz Mahmod Babakir Agha went missing from her home in Mitcham in January. Police were investigating the

  • He’s cool for cats

    The exceptionally gifted, uber-cool Jools Holland and his Rhythm and Blues Orchestra return to Fairfield Concert Hall. Julian Miles Holland was born in 1958 and as a young lad showed a flare for the piano. At school he studied music theory and harmony

  • Assault outside Manhattan club

    Police are investigating a serious assault outside a nightclub in High Street. Police are appealing for witnesses to the assault, which took place outside Manhattan in High Street, Croydon, during the early hours of Sunday, April 23. Two men were seen

  • Green drinking

    Croydon's environmentalists are inviting like-minded people to join them on a regular green drinks night. The evening provides an opportunity for people interested in social and sustainability issues a chance to find out what is going on locally, to

  • Man charged over firebomb deaths

    An unemployed man has been charged with the firebomb attacks which left two people dead and a South Norwood shop burnt out. Robert Torto, 32, of Stockwell Park Road, will appear at Greenwich Magistrates Court today accused of the murder of Khizer Hayat

  • You Mae pick up a bargain at this fair

    It is not every day a Dalek, a Reliant Robin and an instrument belonging to an international classical music star can be found under the same roof, but they will be at a collectors' fair due to be held in Croydon. Robin George and Gary Pope will host