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Monthly Archives: August 2010
Kevin Pietersen could play for Surrey at The Oval tomorrow
Kevin Pietersen, the former England captain and one of the highest paid cricketers in the world, is to join Surrey. Pietersen Tweeted the move this afternoon, in a soon-deleted message that revealed that he has been dropped from the England … Continue reading
Posted in Cricket, Sport, Whitgift School
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Rams fans fear for future as owner Majeed is investigated
Croydon Athletic fans fear that their club may not survive the week.
Posted in Business, Crime, Football, Sport
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Football club under scrutiny following Pakistan betting expose
Croydon Athletic could face a league and FA inquiry following the revelations in yesterday’s News of the World that the club had been bought simply to launder the money from betting scams similar to the one involving the Pakistan Test … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Crime, Football, Sport
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Croydon Athletic FC owner is named in Pakistan cricket sting
The man at the centre of allegations of the latest spot betting scandal to shock international cricket is Mazhar Majeed, the millionaire owner of Croydon Athletic Football Club. The newspaper’s investigation will have ramifications for football, since Majeed boasted to … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Cricket, Crime, Croydon South, Football, Property, Sport
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300 queue up for John Lewis store opening. Why?
Were you one of the 300-odd souls who queued up in a car park on the Purley Way yesterday to get in to the new John Lewis store there? Can you post a comment below to answer this simple question: … Continue reading
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Brothel Advertiser two weeks on: still they are running the ad
Last week, the excuse was “deadline issues”. Prof Roy Greenslade gave them the benefit of the doubt, suggesting it was “cock up” rather than any deep conspiracy. But two weeks after the Brothel Advertiser‘s major expose (snigger) of a “sinister … Continue reading
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Et tu, brutes: old Caesars meets a sad end
There can be few in Croydon who have not spent at least one (ill-advised?) night at the Locarno (my dad’s generation), the Cat’s Whiskers (my generation), or for the past two decades, Caesars at Streatham Hill.
Posted in Dance, Outside Croydon
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“We blame Nick” – your chance to question Deputy PM
Capital Radio is staging a political programme in Croydon tomorrow with Deputy PM Nick Clegg, and they are seeking 300 volunteers to make up their audience.
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Did you see Jimi Hendrix play his gigs in Croydon or Purley?
They say that if you say you can remember the Swinging 1960s, you probably weren’t there. But you’d like to think that if you’d been lucky enough to see Jimi Hendrix play Croydon or Purley, you’d remember something of the … ahem… Experience. Continue reading
Posted in History, Music
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Before the brothel, the BNP: local newspapers’ busy apologist
By way of a footnote to last week’s ridiculous Brothel Advertiser nonsense, it seems that the corporate apologist for the Sadvertiser has previous form in trying to defend the indefensible, having earlier this year ducked questions about whether another newspaper … Continue reading
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Croydon-born Carberry speeds up his Ashes hopes
Ahead of this week’s final Test match of the summer, there’s much speculation about England’s touring party for the winter’s Ashes tour to Australia. One prime candidate is the Thornton Heath-born Michael Carberry, who tells us how winter running training … Continue reading
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Old Dutch master Davids to go on display at Selhurst Park
They call it the silly season, maybe because of stories just like this. Today, Edgar Davids, the former Ajax, Barcelona, Juventus, Milan, Internazionale and (cough) Tottenham player, a Champions League-winner who also accumulated 74 caps in an 11-year international career … Continue reading
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This week’s Advertiser continues to promote Croydon brothel
Having “exposed” a West Croydon brothel on its front page last week while carrying an ad for the same “house of ill-repute” elsewhere in the newspaper, this week’s Brothel Advertiser has surpassed itself by continuing to advertise an establishment which … Continue reading
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It’s official: Crystal Palace exit administration
The work of Brendan Guilfoyle. the joint administrator of Crystal Palace FC (2000) Ltd, is done. Just before 9am today, he issued the following statement: “Crystal Palace Football Club comes out of administration today, with the final step in the … Continue reading
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Croydon’s Olympic diver did not go off his trolley at Tesco
Croydon’s Olympic diver Blake Aldridge, previously most famous for having a poolside row with teenaged prodigy Tom Daley in the middle of their Beijing synchronized diving final, was today cleared of charges of attacking a supermarket security guard. The Bromley … Continue reading
Posted in 2012 Olympics, Crime, Sport
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National newspaper condemns brothel Advertiser’s journalism
Roy Greenslade, the noted media commentator and professor of journalism at City University (he once managed to edit the Daily Mirror with Cap’n Bob Maxwell breathing down his neck), has today picked up on Inside Croydon‘s story about the Sadvertiser‘s … Continue reading
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Action group angry at “utter hypocrisy” of brothel Advertiser
Perhaps oddly – it’s tempting to say perversely, but someone might take it the wrong way – the Croydon Sadvertiser‘s brothel exclusive has not made it on to their website this week. So, as a preview of what should be … Continue reading
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Brothel story has Sadvertiser caught with its pants down
Fun and games at the Croydon Sadvertiser, which despite the “silly season” for news, has nonetheless managed to have a couple of beltingly good, old-fashioned front page “splashes” in the last three weeks. There’s a bit of a problem with … Continue reading
Posted in Local media, West Croydon
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Let’s hope it’s “au revoir” to Crystal Palace, not “goodbye”
Last weekend’s London Grand Prix at Crystal Palace means that next year will be the last time that international-class athletics is staged at the neglected, crumbling old stadium. Decried by m’colleague Jason Cobb and his onionballs blog and described in … Continue reading
Posted in 2012 Olympics, Athletics, London-wide issues
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Ken Livingstone: “Fight the cuts, line by line by line”
Dave Hill spent a prolonged period in a darkened room last night with Tory blogger Iain Dale. Hill’s regular London column for the Guardian‘s website today doesn’t record whether he needed a thorough disinfecting afterwards. What it does state quite … Continue reading
Sherlock’s home: the disgrace of Undershaw’s malign neglect
Mixed reviews so far for the BBC’s updating of the classic detective stories with its Sunday night Sherlock series. But there is universal agreement that what one Surrey council is allowing to happen to Sherlock Holmes’s creator’s former home, Undershaw, … Continue reading
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Directors in mass walk-out from development company
The Croydon Economic Development Company has suffered a mass walk-out of directors less than a month before the organisation is set to be wound-up.
Posted in Business, Croydon Council, Simon Hoar
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Months of chaos for Purley’s “rubbish-strewn crossroads”
Residents, commuters and anyone driving through Purley faces months of delays, diversions and disruption. This week, pavement resurfacing work is starting between Purley Knoll and Banstead Road. That’s likely to last until November. From Monday, road resurfacing will start throughout … Continue reading
Posted in Croydon South, Purley, Richard Ottaway MP, Transport
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A stroll, a pint and a pie: what’s your favourite country pub?
So, if you’ve been inspired by reports that beer can help you lose weight, and you fancy a stroll in the country this weekend, perhaps making the most of what’s left of the summer weather, then check out this guide … Continue reading
Posted in Outside Croydon, Pubs, Walks
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