Transport correspondent JEREMY CLACKSON on the clear and present danger of a car-obsessed Mayor who has no consideration for road safety for Croydon’s children
Under threat: Mayor Perry wants to roll back a decade of progress with 20mph zones
Croydon is the second most dangerous area in the whole of London for traffic collisions outside schools.
These shocking figures are from official Department for Transport data, and come at a time when Croydon’s car-obsessed Mayor Jason Perry says he wants to make the borough’s roads more dangerous by rolling back 20mph zones.
There’s even suspicions among some Town Hall opposition figures that Poot-poot Perry might look at cancelling some of Croydon’s “school streets” restrictions.
The dangerous road figures were in place before Perry axed the borough’s last remaining lollipop patrols outside six Croydon primary schools last year. Continue reading
Crystal Palace Hub Sustainable Fashion Week – which in fact runs for a fortnight – is entering its second week, with its fashionably creative approach to community and one of the highlights of the festival tonight, with a big fashion show at St John the Evangelist on Sylvan Road.
CROYDON IN CRISIS: Mayor Perry spent £53.4m on temporary staff at the council in 2024-2025.
Looking for a new ‘challenge’? Or simply need a job? CHERYL FERGUS-FERRELL, right, Inside Croydon’s roving reporter, checked out a jobs fair at the Fairfield Halls to see what can be on offer at these events
The company stages more than 100 career fairs a year across more than 50 locations. So just what might this event, free for visitors and jobseekers, have to offer?
WALTER CRONXITE, Political Editor, on the grim budget report from the borough’s failed Mayor
The Purley Literary Society was set up in 1901 by the Congregational Church as a mechanism to “improve” agricultural workers #, and give them an alternative to visiting the pubs and fleshpots of Purley during the winter months. The Purley Lit has continued ever autumn and winter ever since, just losing a few years due to world wars, and more recently, covid. 
CROYDON IN CRISIS: In 2018, Daniel Cox blew the whistle when he discovered that a contractor was charging the council almost double what he was being paid for his work. Cox was dismissed, and the council has spent the past eight years working with the same contractor to gag him.
