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Entries open for Croydon Half-marathon: Mar 30

Online entries are now being accepted for the 2014 Croydon Half-marathon, sponsored by Streets Ahead and organised by Croydon Striders, to be staged on Sunday, March 30. It will be the fourth staging...

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Rooney named as shooting witness in Pistorius murder trial

Croydon’s Olympic sprinter Martyn Rooney was with Oscar Pistorius and two other dinner guests in a restaurant when the “Blade Runner” is alleged to have fired a pistol, a court in Pretoria heard this...

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Streatham Common Six-mile race, Sept 27

Coming to Croydon South Norwood Arts Festival, July 5-20 David Lean Cinema: We Are The Best!, July 10 Croydon Folk and Blues Festival, July 12 David Lean Cinema: Half of a Yellow Sun, July 17 Love...

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Record-setting sprinter takes national title at English Schools’

By Matthew Kiernan Sprinter James Dasaolu was yesterday named in the Great Britain team for next month’s European athletics championships being staged in Switzerland, thus joining his Croydon Harriers...

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Inspired by Glasgow 2014? Get on track with Croydon Harriers

Croydon Harriers is hosting six free athletics sessions this August for budding young athletes aged from six to 18. Taking place at Croydon Sports Arena, a range of events will be on offer, including...

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Dorothy Tyler: Athletics’ Silver Lady who stood up to Hitler

Sanderstead resident and Croham Hurst golfer Dorothy Tyler was one of this country’s greatest pioneers of women’s sport – two Olympic silver medals and two Empire Games golds as a high jumper...

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Bromley leader Carr attacks Boris’s Palace consultation

Seconds out, round three: In a pull-no-punches letter sent to City Hall today, Stephen Carr, the leader of Tory-run Bromley Council, has condemned London Mayor Boris Johnson’s on-going consultation...

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Coe wants community to have its say over Palace plans

Sebastian Coe, the double Olympic gold medal-winner and former chairman of the organising committee of London’s acclaimed 2012 Games, wants the local community to back calls to save the Crystal Palace...

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Young runners display mud and guts in London Youth Games

Report by Matthew Kiernan More than 60 young runners represented Croydon at the opening event of the 2015 Balfour Beatty London Youth Games at Parliament Hill Fields on Saturday, delivering a batch of...

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Bromley 10km charity road race, Jan 11

Coming to Croydon Stop the Incinerator Public Meeting, Green Dragon, Jan 10 David Lean Cinema, Leviathan, Jan 13 Eagle Improv, Spread Eagle Theatre, Jan 14 Norwood Society talk: Penge, the making of a...

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Frank Harmer Memorial 10km road race, Mar 1

Coming to Croydon David Lean Cinema, The Imitation Game, Jan 22 South Croydon business breakfast, Jan 24 Storytime (for under-8s), Oval Tavern, Addiscombe, Jan 24 David Lean Cinema, Night Will Fall,...

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Croydon Harriers sprinter becomes four-try rugby star

Croydon Harriers recently lost one of their biggest talents – physically and metaphorically – to another sport, when British discus record-holder Lawrence Okoye signed up for the San Francisco 49ers...

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Young Harriers break records at London Olympic Stadium

Three sprint relay teams from Croydon Harriers tasted victory in London’s Olympic Stadium at the Anniversary Games last Friday evening. Eight teams of Croydon Harriers sprinters got the chance to...

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Rooney proves a point as he flies on his Chinese magic carpet

Croydon Harrier Martyn Rooney proved a point today, when the British athletics team captain stormed to a lifetime best performance in the 400 metres heats on the second day of the world championships...

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Streatham Common 6-mile cross-country race, Sep 26

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Trustees abandon free school plan for Crystal Palace Park

Controversial plans to build a free school in the middle of a Grade II-listed public park have been abandoned. The Crystal Palace Primary School wanted the public to pay for its buildings in the middle...

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Lally defies Olympic selectors to realise her lifelong dream

IAN LAMONT interviews a south London athlete who has overcome illness, depression and disappointment to drive her into becoming one of the world’s best discus throwers. Main photograph by IAN STRATTON...

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