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  • Awards for ‘1st class’ posties

    Is your postman a hero? Royal Mail would like to hear about 1st Class' postmen and women who are charity fundraisers, or have performed a public-spirited act or dealt with an emergency while doing their deliveries. Tom Melvin, Royal Mail's Operations

  • Nothing for youngsters to do here

    Do any Croydon councillors ever consider the infrastructure of West Croydon when they are granting planning permission for more flats and houses? London Road, Thornton Road, Mitcham Road, Purley Way, and Five Ways are already heavily congested as the

  • Children fundraise for their youth club

    Children from Purley Youth Project were sent packing for a charity fundraising day at an Asda store. The group, which is based in Brighton Road and relies on donations, raised £450 that will be used to take the children on trips and leisure facilities

  • Generous readers give nursery festive toy joy

    Generous Croydon Guardian readers flooded our offices with toys and money after we asked for help to refill Christmas stockings at a nursery gutted by fire. People from all walks of life contacted us in their droves after reading about an arson attack

  • Purley hospital plans five year delay

    Croydon South MP Richard Ottaway has again expressed his concern at the lengthy delay of the construction of the new Purley Hospital. Plans for a state-of-the-art revamp of the Purley War Memorial were first revealed in 2001 - but five years on the proposals