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  • Tea in the grounds

    Cream teas will be served in the grounds of Heathfield House this weekend as the ecology centre stages a green heritage fair. Visitors will be able to meet Jean Thorpe, daughter of Raymond Riesco, the last private owner of Heathfield House, and listen

  • Shedding a little light on subject

    A six-year project costing £30million to improve Croydon's street lighting was approved on Monday. Croydon Council will now be looking for tenders for the project which will see more than 30,000 new street lights installed in the borough, 7,000 more

  • Secrets of the dahlias

    This summer's tem-peramental weather may have dampened residents' spirits but one keen Addiscombe gardener has seen his garden flourish. Proud Mujeeb Mirza, of Stroud Green Way, has seen his prize dahlias grow unusually large this summer and attributes

  • Waddon: Now a safer place

    A year after the police and council adopted a tough stance against antisocial behaviour in Waddon residents say the area is now a safer place to live. Repeated incidents of antisocial behaviour in Waddon prompted Croydon Council and the police to write

  • Baby arrives in family car

    A policeman who used all his driving skills to race his pregnant wife to hospital was foiled when his baby daughter was born on the front seat of his car. Tiny Caitlin Mooney stunned her midwife mum Jewell and dad Joe when she made her entrance into