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The Cassandra Centre meets in coffee shops after its hub on Norbury High Street was sold

I was born in a place called Purley, in the far reaches of South London. It’s a reasonably affluent, leafy part of Croydon, where the actor Bill Nighy went to school and where members of the Kray family disappeared after their empire gave way. 

Local authorities are thinking of plugging budget shortfalls by raising millions selling off public assets

The blunder may have impacted 3138 PCNs given out between mid-October and the start of December 2023, according to the borough’s mayor

The Croydon-born catwalk star was determined to make her milestone birthday 'a night to remember'

Ask Londoners what they know about Croydon and here’s what they definitely won’t say: Croydon has white cliffs (who knew?); it was originally a centre for saffron cultivation (who cares?); Charlie Chaplin was once kidnapped at Croydon Airport (the weirdest thing here is that Croydon used to have an airport).…

Pc Perry Lathwood, 49, will appear at Westminster Magistrates’ Court on February 14

One pupil was taken to hospital with a head injury

On a grey, cloudy morning in December, London police deployed a state-of-the-art AI powered camera near the railway station in the suburb of Croydon and quietly scanned the faces of the unsuspecting passersby.

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