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Campaigners protest Bedroom Tax as “vilification of the poor”
More than 60 protesters braved pouring rain to protest against the Bedroom Tax outside Croydon Town Hall today. The protest was one of more than 50 demonstrations held concurrently across the country to oppose the measure that will mean that … Continue reading
Posted in Activities, Andrew Pelling, Health, Housing
Tagged Andrew Fisher, Bedroom Tax, Council house, Croydon, Labour, Member of parliament, Steve Webb, Tony Newman
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Cuts to Family Justice Centre are putting lives at risk
LEE WEBSTER, a campaigner from South Norwood, on the vital importance of International Women’s Day for Croydon Every year on March 8, we mark International Women’s Day, on which for a hundred years, women activists have campaigned for gender equality … Continue reading
Newman will “blow open the books” on £140m council HQ
Tony Newman, the leader of the opposition group on Croydon Council, has pledged that if Labour wins control of the Town Hall in the 2014 local elections, he “will blow open the books” to expose the hundreds of million pounds … Continue reading
Posted in Croydon Radio, Housing, Mike Fisher, Planning, Property, Tony Newman, URV, Waste incinerator, Woodside
Tagged Council Tax, Croydon, Google, Labour, Labour Council, London Borough of Croydon, Mike Fisher, Tony Newman
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£30m libraries privatisation could be sent for judicial review
The opposition Labour group on Croydon Council is considering seeking a judicial review of the decision to hand a £30-million, eight-year library contract to John Laing Integrated Services. According to sources familiar with the competitive tendering process, which Croydon’s Conservative-run … Continue reading
Croydon’s B&B nightmare: “an indictment of modern Britain”
The BBC’s Newsnight programme has taken Croydon Council’s emergency housing “policy” apart, exposing them as breaking the law twice over, while failing the borough’s homeless, many of them young children, who are forced to stay in squalid, overcrowded and unsuitable … Continue reading
Posted in Broad Green, Croydon Council, Dudley Mead, Health, Housing, Jon Rouse, Mike Fisher, Planning, Property, Tony Newman
Tagged BBC, Croydon, Croydon Council, London, London Borough of Croydon, Newsnight, Rouse, Tony Newman
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NHS executive threatens scrutiny body over £23m ‘lost’ funds
So, a public body “loses” tens of millions, yet no one is responsible? ANDREW PELLING attended the latest session of the south-west London NHS scrutiny committee Lawyers, paid for out of precious NHS funds, have been hired by senior health … Continue reading
Labour targets tough-nut Croydon for 2014 borough elections
Tony Newman, the leader of the Labour opposition at Croydon Town Hall, was clearly enthused yesterday when he reported the positive response from his party’s members seeking to be candidates at the next borough elections in 2014. As many as … Continue reading
Posted in Ashburton, Boris Johnson, Croydon Council, Jon Rouse, Mayor of London, Mike Fisher, New Addington, Simon Hoar, Tony Newman, Tony Pearson, URV, Waddon
Tagged Conservative, Croydon, Labour, LibDem, Liberal Democrat, London, Lynton Crosby, Tony Newman
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Croydon Labour leader accuses council of failing business
Croydon’s opposition leader Tony Newman has today accused the Conservative group that runs the council of having sat back and done nothing – leaving “the markets to decide” – over the town’s struggling economy. As many as 2,000 jobs are … Continue reading
Posted in Allders, Business, Croydon 8/8, Croydon Council, Tony Newman, Woodside
Tagged Allders, Conservative, Croydon, Croydon Council, George Osborne, Harold Tillman, London Borough of Croydon, Tony Newman
Labour’s Newman names his team for council election build-up
The Labour group on Croydon Council is becoming a bit like the Conservatives. Well, at least in just one small, but important, way, writes ANDREW PELLING In parliament, Labour dropped the election of its shadow cabinet by its MPs, leaving … Continue reading
Posted in Alison Butler, Andrew Pelling, Croydon Council, Gerry Ryan, Libraries, London Assembly, Louisa Woodley, Maggie Mansell, Mike Fisher, Norbury, Selhurst, Simon Hall, Stuart Collins, Thornton Heath, Timothy Godfrey, Tony Newman, Waste incinerator, Wayne Lawlor
Tagged Conservative, Croydon, Labour, London, London Borough of Croydon, Newman, NHS, Tony Newman
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Latest Cannes trip gets Rouse his moment in The Sun
Maybe openness, transparency and accountability to public scrutiny does work. Since Inside Croydon was launched nearly two years ago, we have often returned to the council’s spending on its annual jolly to the South of France for £248,000 per year … Continue reading
