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Sunderland came for a fight but we were dominant, says Crystal Palace captain
By Mark Ritson MILE Jedinak is refusing to be too downbeat following Monday's 3-1 defeat to Sunderland and says there were positives to take from the game. Palace had the visitors pinned back for...
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Bus 'explodes' in Wallington
A BUS has this afternoon 'exploded' after it caught fire at a busy junction. A police officer on patrol at around 1.55pm today (Tuesday) reported seeing smoke coming from a 157 bus at the junction of...
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Semi-pro footballer and student robbed pensioner before spending the money on...
A STUDENT and a semi-professional footballer have been jailed for a total of 10 years for robbing a 75-year-old man of £5,000 cash before going to buy designer clothes. Rishi Nankani, 25 of Edith Road,...
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Croydon Advertiser's Gareth Davies nominated for British Journalism Award
CROYDON Advertiser chief reporter Gareth Davies has been nominated for a top journalism prize. Gareth has been shortlisted in the Local Heroes category at this year's British Journalism Awards. The...
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Police station evacuated after pensioner hands in World War Two bomb during...
A MORTAR bomb sparked the evacuation of a police station this afternoon after it was handed in on the first day of the Metropolitan Police's gun 'amnesty'.Explosives officers from the Met's SO15 team...
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Campaigner attempts to appeal high court ruling over Beddington Farmlands...
A CAMPAIGNER is attempting to appeal against a high court judge's decision to uphold planning permission for the Beddington Farmlands incinerator.Judge Justice Patterson ruled last Thursday that Sutton...
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Scott Dann: Nothing for Crystal Palace to be embarrassed about
CRYSTAL Palace star Scott Dann was pleased with the defensive performance from himself and his Eagles team-mates at Manchester United on Saturday and felt his side stood up to the test well.Old...
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FAN VIEW: Why I fear Neil Warnock will take Crystal Palace back to the...
OUR columnist and Crystal Palace fan ALEX WHITE embraced the appointment of Neil Warnock - but he now fears the worst...I consider myself largely positive and upbeat when it comes to Palace, and often,...
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Police search for missing vulnerable woman with links to Croydon
Police are appealing for help to find a missing vulnerable woman with links to Croydon.Police in Hammersmith and Fulham Borough are searching for Patricia Dolton of Brackenbury Road who went missing to...
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Selsdon maths tutor thanks husband and doctors after 'brush with death'
A MATHS tutor says she has her husband and medical staff to thank for saving her life after a lump on her leg became a "brush with death".When Gill Brackenbury, 50, discovered the swelling she...
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Crystal Palace play down Wolves link for striker
CRYSTAL Palace striker Dwight Gayle has been linked with a loan move to Wolverhampton Wanderers in recent days, according to rumours and reports.However, it is understood that the forward isn't going...
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Woman run over by her own car mother of TV star Michael Fenton Stevens
THE woman who died when she was run over by her own car was the mother of TV actor Michael Fenton Stevens.Olive Stevens, 88, became stuck on a country lane that was blocked by fly-tipping on Thursday...
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Troubled retailer Croydon Village Outlet appears to get a new name
TROUBLED retailer Croydon Village Outlet seems to have been rebranded in recent days.The sign above the store's entrance on North End has been replaced with one reading 'New Fashion Outlet - Dress For...
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South Croydon teenagers jailed for sickening attack on man in Southwark hotel...
THREE teenagers have been jailed for a total of 21 and a half years for a savage attack on a man in a hotel lobby in Southwark.Joseph Tanti and Morgan Stripling, both 18 and of Addington Road, South...
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Ben Haenow X Factor blog: The Hunger Games premier, Croydon's support and the...
Croydon's Ben Haenow gives Advertiser readers an exclusive sneak peak behind the doors of the X Factor house in his weekly blog about life on the show...IT'S been a cool week because I went to the...
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Child's toy called Cock Happy on sale in Croydon's Whitgift Centre
IT WOULDN'T, on the face of it, seem to be the most appropriate name for a child's toy.The 'Cock Happy' electric chicken, on sale at a stand in the Whitgift Centre, is described as being a 'baby...
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'Scaffolders saved my life after I fell under train at East Croydon'
A FOREMAN who fell between the train and platform at East Croydon station during a rush-hour crush has thanked one of the men who helped to save him.Peter Gambrell, said he was "indebted" to two...
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Revealed: How a piece of the Berlin Wall ended up in Croydon
TWO years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, a group of Berlin schoolchildren visited Croydon and gave the borough a fragment of the partition.November 9 marked the 25th anniversary of the day the wall...
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Croydon digs deep after teenager is robbed of £300 console at tram stop
GOOD Samaritans have clubbed together to offer a youngster a replacement games console – after he was robbed of his new one before he had even got it home.Police are hunting for the man who snatched...
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Elderly woman found dead by firefighters after South Norwood house fire
AN ELDERLY woman has been found dead by fire crews who tackled a house fire in South Norwood last night (Friday).The woman, who has not been named, was found in the rear lounge of a home in Waverley...
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