CROYDON IN CRISIS: The thing is with the Conservatives and spending public money, they have no qualms when it comes to lavishing hundreds of thousands of pounds on themselves. EXCLUSIVE by STEVEN DOWNES
Did someone mention jobs for the Tory boys?
To the absolute surprise of no one at Croydon Town Hall, it has emerged that failed Mayor Jason Perry has handed the position of his office manager to a former Tory Party staffer who previously worked as a parliamentary aide to Croydon South MP Chris Philp.
Initially hired for six months, the job as Perry’s glorified gofer comes with pay at a rate equivalent to £78,000 per year. Continue reading
Ethel has won tickets worth more than £90 to see the singing sensations reprise all their greatest hits from the 1960s and 1970s.
CROYDON CHRONICLES: As the town centre’s ancient market reaches its 750th anniversary, DAVID MORGAN charts its growth from its beginnings as Butchers Row, aided by the patronage of commercially-minded Archbishops of Canterbury 
Somewhere this morning, Jo Negrini was having a little self-congratulatory chuckle.
SDEN is the council-owned scheme that was supposed to pipe heat from the Beddington incinerator.
While billions of pounds have been spent on Tube extensions or earmarked for the Docklands Light Railway, Croydon’s trams have become the poor relations of the capital’s transport infrastructure. And the strain is beginning to show. By STEVEN DOWNES
Award-winning stand-up Mark Steel sits down with our columnist, Andrew Fisher, for a frank, wide-ranging and often hilarious interview, the latest podcast from the Inside Croydon ‘multiverse’.
Croydon’s failed Mayor, Jason Perry, and his cabinet of Tory councillors will tonight push through plans to destroy the widely-admired council-run adult education service that has served the borough for more than 70 years.
The establishment of a children’s home to save cash-strapped Croydon Council some money could be heading for the law courts in a simmering row over the cancellation of a contract for managing the facility.
The Croydon children’s home where the council cancelled its management contract with a charity barely six months after it opened has been given a “Good” rating by Ofsted inspectors.
