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Splinters In Time (Free subscription) | 08/11/2009
After food we headed off to Fairfield Halls in deepest darkest Croydon to see some bands at Witch Fest. We were aiming to get there in time to see The Veil (who we had already missed once this week) as their website said they were on at 20:00. We arrived and I bumped into Dylan, one of The Veil's guitarists, only to find out that they had been on at 19:00 (with the program saying they were on at 18:00)...
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Ambush Predator (Free subscription) | 07/11/2009
A senior police chief spoke out tonight about the worrying rise in gang rapes , as disturbing figures showed almost 100 attacks in the capital within the last year. Brave of him… New figures revealed there were 93 gang sex attacks in the financial year 2008-9, compared with 71 in 2003 to 2004. Meanwhile the age of victims has fallen , with 64 per cent aged 19 or younger in the last financial...
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Another Green World (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
I am giving a briefing on climate change tomorrow at Ruskin House, Croydon at the Communist Party of Britain university event, 4pm to 4.45pm and 10pm sunday, thats early for a sunday, on the economic crisis at the same event. The food from the Chilean chef is always good and the Communist Party always have some veggie choices. More details here
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Ornamental Passions (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
Eric Aumonier, sculptor of one of the invisible winds on 55 Broadway, came from a dynasty of architectural carvers founded by his grandfather William, who started the Aumonier Studio just off the Tottenham Court Road in 1876. So it must have been Grandad who supplied the ornamental stonework for Croydon Town Office, built in 1892. Croydon Town Hall is an uneasy mix of the pompous and prosaic. The enormous...
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Sofia News Agency (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
One of the world's most notorious casino cheats has been jailed for a three-year fraud that spread all over the UK and several other countries. Abdullah Toksoz, 40, of Croydon, bypassed casino security with Italian, Bulgarian and Malibu identities to win GBP 3 000 a night between February 2005 and June last year. He would mark cards using a pinhead under his fingernail. ...
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The Lone Voice (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
So what does the council use its Ripa powers for, to catch dangerous fraudsters, criminals, fly by night con artists who steal the money from old age pensioners? No Big Brother Watch has this story of some state employed sad fuck, the sort of lonely bloke who sits alone downloading kiddie porn(probably) and believes his job is to demonstrate to the world what an utter cunt he his on a daily basis....
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BBC News (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
Changes to the way asylum claims are made is putting huge pressure on services in South London, according to Croydon Council.
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CNC CNC Machines Information (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
Zober Industries, Croydon, PA adds the WT-150 from Nakamura Tome. This 5-axis turning center offers the most diverse range of dual turret multitasking ability. With 2 turrets upper and lower, and 12 station turrets, complete families of parts can be machined with minimum setup times. These versatile machines are used in the medical, electronics and aerospace industries. The WT-150 provides High Speed,...
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maggi dawn (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
Robert Crumb talks about his new comic-strip Genesis, saying that it is a multi-layered text, full of imaginative possibilities. Nick Baines, Bishop of Croydon says on the piece that it teases the imagination. I'm not sure that Crumb's work teases so much as leaves nothing to the imagination, but I like Baines's other comment - that in Church congregations listen to these outrageous stories, followed...
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Kotaku Australia (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
Established in the wake of the controversial banning – and subsequent censorship – of Left 4 Dead 2, the Gamers 4 Croydon party plans to run against South Australian Attorney-General and R18+ videogame opponent Michael Atkinson in next year’s state election. I caught up with party founder David Doe to discuss those plans. (more…)
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Gizmodo Australia (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
David over at Kotaku has a nice little story about Gamers 4 Croydon, a hopeful political party hoping to dethrone South Australian Attorney-General at the next election. (more…)
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dooyoo newest opinions in UK / Irel (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
a new opinion on www.dooyoo.co.uk about Croydon Park Hotel (Croydon) written by Ayesha-` It's been a tough time at work for my sister and recently she has been feeling particularly down. I've also been needing to get away, so we decided to book ourselves a little weekend break just to have a change of scene. Both of us following the ...
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LondonJazz (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
All of these shows are now sold out: Sonny Rollins at Barbican Marcus Miller at Barbican Chick Corea at Barbican (both shows) Naturally 7 at Theatre Royal Stratford East (tickets still available for shows at Royal Festival Hall and Fairfield, Croydon) Branford Marsalis at QEH Tomasz Stanko at QEH Dave Holland/Overtone Quartet at QEH Tord Gustavsen at QEH John Scofield at QEH Vijay Iyer at Purcell Room...
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CAD Creations (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
CAD Creations has picked up a new client, Thermoserv Ltd. A H&V company based in South Croydon & established since 1977.
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gamboling (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
In a recent podcast, Joel Spolsky made a very valid economic point about new media (you can listen to it here ). He was talking about the decline of print journalism which you may or may not see as a bad thing. He suggested that the new media will find it much harder to support in-depth investigative journalism. I was reminded of this again when reading that Joe Saward is asking for donations to keep...
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