Monthly Archives: July 2012

Struggling to understand why you’d burn out your neighbours

Posted on July 31, 2012 by insidecroydon

8/8 One Year On: As we approach the anniversary of the London riots, we will be publishing readers’ and contributors’ memories of that darkest of nights, their views and hopes for the future. One year on, local political figure SHASHA … Continue reading →

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Local derby marks football’s return to Croydon Arena

Posted on July 31, 2012 by insidecroydon

The romance of football is very much on show in the lower levels of the English game that Croydon FC and AFC Croydon Athletic compete in. Rising from the ashes left by the involvement of the club’s owner, Mazhar Majeed, … Continue reading →

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Norwood celebrates railway project that linked communities

Posted on July 30, 2012 by insidecroydon

Croydon’s controversially partisan Tory mayor, Eddy Arram, will be doing the honours tomorrow when he unveils two plaques marking the centenary of the opening of the pedestrian subway under Norwood Junction station. The tunnel links South Norwood town centre with … Continue reading →

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Londoner forced to go to end of the earth in Olympic sacrifice

Posted on July 28, 2012 by insidecroydon

Ignore the statistics pumped out so far this week about the Olympic Games and Britain’s quest for 48 medals in the coming 16 days of high-octane sporting action. Here’s a set of stats much closer to home: London is a … Continue reading →

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The menace of the masked mob on the night of riots

Posted on July 28, 2012 by insidecroydon

8/8 One Year On: As we approach the anniversary of the London riots, we will be publishing readers’ and contributors’ memories of that darkest of nights, their views and  hopes for the future. ANTHONY MILLER, an East Croydon-based comedy promoter, … Continue reading →

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Youth Parliament showcases local talent – no debate

Posted on July 27, 2012 by insidecroydon

SARA SAYMA, of Croydon’s UK Youth Parliament, reports on the organisation’s latest event Croydon High won the first UK Youth Parliament inter-school debate competition, which was staged to help show that young people have well-thought out opinions that deserve to … Continue reading →

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Shabden Farmers’ Market: this Saturday, Jul 28

Posted on July 27, 2012 by insidecroydon

The delayed and postponed Shabden Farmers’ Market is this Saturday, July 28, from 9.30am until 2pm. The wettest June on record caused the previous market at the farm, in Chipstead, a 10min drive from Coulsdon, to be abandoned. But now … Continue reading →

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Remembering 8/8 risks provoking copycat troublemakers

Posted on July 26, 2012 by insidecroydon

8/8 One Year On: As we approach the anniversary of the London riots, we will be publishing readers’ and contributors’ memories of that darkest of nights, their views and hopes for the future. Some, though, including one regular reader from … Continue reading →

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Hammerson: Handsome half-year figures and takeover talk

Posted on July 25, 2012 by insidecroydon

As previously suggested by Inside Croydon, Hammerson, the owner of Centrale and potential developers of the Whitgift Centre, is a takeover target for other developers – including their Whitgift rivals, Westfield. The takeover talk emerged from Australia in May, according … Continue reading →

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These are the questions Croydon needs answered by Westfield

Posted on July 25, 2012 by insidecroydon

So Westfield is claiming 91 per cent of the people of Croydon favour its scheme for the redevelopment of the Whitgift Centre. Just as we predicted. After all, the only thing more predictable than the results of North Korean elections … Continue reading →

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Travelling to London: check out this Olympic transport advice

Posted on July 25, 2012 by insidecroydon

London’s “Zil Lanes”, the network of restricted roads mainly in the centre of the city, go live this morning, barely 24 hours after the shut down of one Tube line and an overground railway line prompted transport chaos for 60,000 … Continue reading →

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Suspicious fire at London Road flats under investigation

Posted on July 24, 2012 by insidecroydon

On the evening after the Olympic Flame passed along London Road, there was another sign of what some fear suggests the sort of criminal behaviour that led to rioting in Croydon 12 months ago. Two appliances and a command unit … Continue reading →

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The summer’s night that changed Croydon forever

Posted on July 24, 2012 by insidecroydon

8/8 One Year On: As we approach the anniversary of the London riots, we will be publishing readers’ and contributors’ memories of that darkest of nights, their views and  hopes for the future. Like many of us, local filmmaker JANET … Continue reading →

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The day a flaming torch on London Road was a good thing

Posted on July 24, 2012 by insidecroydon

Yesterday’s visit of the Olympic Torch to Croydon was widely acclaimed as a terrific success, with thousands coming out on to the streets for what was only a briefest of glimpses of something which is supposed to symbolise the spirit … Continue reading →

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“Misleading and clearly not the case”: Musker speaks out

Posted on July 24, 2012 by insidecroydon

To have one senior police officer issue a statement refuting a front-page story in a local newspaper must be embarrassing for the paper. But to have two such statements issued within a matter of days ought to be cause for … Continue reading →

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Croydon to battle Westfield. In the Combined Counties League

Posted on July 23, 2012 by insidecroydon

You couldn’t make it up. With Westfield, the multi-billion pound property developers, looking to move in on a large chunk of central Croydon with massive redevelopment of the Whitgift Centre, when AFC Croydon Athletic got their fixtures through for the … Continue reading →

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Make it so! Waddon gets a flicker of the Olympic Flame

Posted on July 23, 2012 by insidecroydon

They say that the Olympics is a power for good, bringing people of the world together. And so it was in Waddon this lunchtime, as two cultural icons met for the first time: Sir Patrick Stewart, Captain Jean-Luc Pickard from … Continue reading →

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Wallander’s not so miserable after seeing Sarah Lund’s jumper

Posted on July 23, 2012 by insidecroydon

With arts correspondent Bella Bartock entertaining her Wagnerian fantasies at Bayreuth (don’t ask), ANDREW PELLING, Inside Croydon’s contributing editor was sent off to a pre-Edinburgh Festival review at the Scream Lounge What a delight is the Scream Lounge, on Brighton … Continue reading →

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Croydon clubs get £95,000 from Mayor’s sports fund

Posted on July 23, 2012 by insidecroydon

As the Olympic Torch enters Croydon, locals had another 95,000 sporting reasons to celebrate, with three projects in the borough benefiting in hard cash from the latest round of grants from the Mayor of London’s sports fund. Streatham and Croydon … Continue reading →

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West Croydon student asks us all to join World Peace Day

Posted on July 22, 2012 by insidecroydon

Over the coming weeks, Inside Croydon will be running a series of articles that look back to that darkest night of 2011, 8/8. But first, we look forward, with a message of hope and peace from AISHAH MEHMOOD I am … Continue reading →

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United we stand: looking for a more representative Croydon

Posted on July 22, 2012 by insidecroydon

CROYDON COMMENTARY: There’s gathering interest in more radical solutions to the deep economic and social problems, locally and nationally, judging by one well-attended meeting last week, writes ANDREW PELLING Something rather extraordinary is happening to left of centre politics in … Continue reading →

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All-singing sports agent will transfer attention to Olympic pool

Posted on July 22, 2012 by insidecroydon

The schools have broken up, everyone is setting off on holiday, but in his hill-top office just a free-kick away from the National Sports Centre at Crystal Palace, Athole Still is busier than ever, yet never knowing whether his work … Continue reading →

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Carrying a torch for the Olympics: Croydon’s route

Posted on July 21, 2012 by insidecroydon

The Olympics come to Croydon, however briefly, on Monday.

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A real award won by new YMCA build on Dingwall Road

Posted on July 21, 2012 by insidecroydon

South London YMCA’s Alexandra House in the centre of Croydon has won a prestigious award at the Construction News Awards. This appears to be a genuine award, with contractors Warings selected as winners of the “Best Project Under £10 million” … Continue reading →

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Police “extremely disappointed” with Olympic scare story

Posted on July 20, 2012 by insidecroydon

A senior Croydon police officer has today refuted completely an article published in a less reliable publication that claimed that parts of the borough could be reduced to having just a single constable on duty during the Olympic Games and, … Continue reading →

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