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‘I was so self-assured in my early 20s. Then my frontal lobe hit’: Rachel Chinouriri, every pop star’s favourite UK pop star

She faced racist bullying as a child – then pigeonholing as an artist. Now following up a hit debut album championed by the A-list, the Croydon singer-songwriter says she finally understands who she really is

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Four London councils cover staff parking fines with taxpayers' cash

Councils in Hackney, Lewisham, Wandsworth and Croydon spent thousands on fines for their staff and contractors

Evening Standard

Met Police officer kept and shared graphic crime photos of murder victim

Former Detective Sergeant Jason Grafham was an exhibits officer for the murder of Sally Anne Bowman in Croydon in 2005

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Will a rollout of live facial recognition in Soho bust crime or destroy trust?

Chris Stokel-Walker asks whether the tech’s success in Croydon can be repeated in the heaving West End

Evening Standard

Costa del Croydon: Adult beach club coming to London rooftop

The ‘ultimate urban beach escape’ is returning to south London from August 7 to 31

Evening Standard

Full list of Coughlan bakeries closing after business part-owned by Romesh Ranganathan goes into liquidation

All the branches of the family-run business which are closing in London, Surrey, Kent and West Sussex

Evening Standard

Kneecap pay politically driven tribute to Trevor Dietz

The musicians took a moment during their show in Croydon to pay tribute to Dietz.

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Live facial recognition cameras to be installed in West End and Soho

A six-month pilot in Croydon, south London, led to 173 arrests, including one woman sought for over two decades

Evening Standard

Facial recognition cameras heading to London’s West End in bid to cut crime

The Met Police hailed a six-month pilot programme in Croydon as a success

The Independent UK

Croydon businessman brokered illegal arms deals to send ex-Soviet fighter jets to Africa war zones

David Greenhalgh and Greek national Christos Farmakis were found guilty of illegal arms deals worth tens of millions of pounds

Evening Standard

Met Police officer moves to Suffolk - and sues force over his commute

PC Paul Heard moved from south London to Suffolk, leading to a six-hour daily commute to his base in Croydon

Evening Standard

London Labour figures appear in court over 'plot to rig party candidate selection'

Joel Bodmer, Shila Bodmer, Carole Bonner and Gabriel Leroy charged after probe into Labour candidate selection process for Croydon East

Evening Standard

Met Police facial recognition cameras blitz nets 173 crime suspects in Croydon

Woman wanted for more than 20 years among 173 suspects arrested in south London trial

Evening Standard

Woman wanted for 22 years over assault arrested in live facial recognition trial

A total of 173 suspects were arrested for crimes including kidnapping and rape during the pilot in Croydon

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Local elections 2026: All the London results so far

Some 1,817 London council seats are up for grabs with mayoral races in Croydon, Hackney, Lewisham, Newham and Tower Hamlets

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London local elections: Which boroughs have mayors and who will win?

Residents in Newham, Hackney, Tower Hamlets, Lewisham and Croydon will cast their votes to appoint a mayor for their council

Evening Standard

London local elections 2026: All major party manifestos in Croydon Council

Croydon is one of the few boroughs in London where voters have two important choices to make on Thursday, May 7

The Guardian - UK

Scanned, tackled, arrested: how live facial recognition was piloted on the streets of Croydon

Police got several matches during trial in London borough, but where some see progress on crime, others see violation of privacy

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South London Greens 'mistakenly' endorse candidate suspended over antisemitism allegations

Mark Adderley was suspended by the national party last week following allegations that he promoted antisemitic tropes

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London council scales back controversial yellow box after it raked in £2 million from motorists

Croydon Council was ordered to cancel any fines after adjudicators found the enforcement area to be ‘fundamentally flawed’

Evening Standard

London council pocketed more than £7 million from six LTNs which were ruled unlawful

Croydon Council are facing demands to refund all the penalty fines imposed on motorists, after a judge found the LTNs were mainly in place to raise money

The Independent UK

Tram operator sued for £200k in damages over death of teenage e-scooter rider

Reuben Abakah, 19, was hit by a London Trams service in Croydon on August 22, 2022

The Guardian - UK

Four Labour activists charged with trying to fix candidate selection process

Police bring criminal case over alleged manipulation of party database in Croydon East constituency

Evening Standard

Four London Labour figures charged after criminal investigation into alleged vote rigging

Exclusive: Four people charged after criminal investigation into irregularities surrounding Labour candidate selection process for Croydon East

Evening Standard

Croydon child abuser jailed for 28 years

Anthony Adewale Sobogun, 61, committed 17 sexual abuse offences against two children during the 1990s and early 2000s

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