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The Latest Breaking News from Croydon

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

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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

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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

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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

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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

Evening Standard

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

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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

Evening Standard

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’

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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

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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

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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

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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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Moment 'incredible' six-year-old save's mum's life with 999 call

Six-year-old Pearl, from Croydon, saved her mum’s life by staying calm and calling 999

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Farage's Reform takes on Tories in furious election battle for Croydon

The Reform UK leader also challenged Kemi Badenoch over the running of Croydon Council

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London council to pay millions back to motorists fined for driving in unlawful LTNs

Croydon mayor Jason Perry vows to ‘make it as easy as possible for residents to get their money back’

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Croydon yellow box junction rakes in £2m in fines despite legality row

A yellow box junction in Croydon has generated almost £2 million in fines over the past decade, despite part of it being deemed illegal by adjudicators. There are now calls for the council to scrap the box outside East Croydon entirely, with a leading campaigner saying: “There’s no other reason…

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Crime in Croydon put centre stage of Tory local election campaign for England by Kemi Badenoch

The Tory leader told how local businesses in south London are being plagued by shoplifting

Evening Standard

London trials new radar speed cameras that don't flash or need road markings

Cameras are set to be installed over the coming weeks at 10 locations, including Tower Hamlets, Croydon, Hammersmith and Fulham, Ealing and Sutton

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London mother, 33, dies from sepsis after being prescribed wrong antibiotics

Aleisha Rochester, a bank cashier from Croydon, south London, died two weeks after undergoing a routine procedure to remove an abscess from her left armpit

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