On 8.1, how do I delete photos from camera roll but not from photo stream?

I recently updated to iOS 8.1 on my 5S and was happy to get camera roll back, but unlike in the past, when I delete a picture from camera roll, it also deletes it from photo stream. This makes no sense; I want to delete it from my phone while keeping it in photo stream - is there something I'm not doing? Is it a problem with 8.1? Any help would be appreciated...thanks.

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I am trying to delete pictures from my camera roll without having to delete them pictures from the album.. The reason for this is I have organised my pictures into albums on iPad and therefore would like to delete from camera roll however when I attempt to do this it says it will delete from album as well. Is there any way round this. Thanks.

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On 8.1, how do I delete photos from camera roll but not from photo stream?

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