CROYDON IN CRISIS: A year since the vacancy arose at Fisher’s Folly, the Mayor is no closer to recruiting someone for the top job to take over from Katherine Kerswell.
KEN LEE, Town Hall correspondent, reports
Jason Perry has failed again.
Despite dangling a £275,000 salary carrot, no one interviewed for the job of the council’s chief executive was reckoned to be good enough (“with the right experience and leadership”, according to Mayor Perry) to take on the job of running Croydon’s clusterfuck of a council.
It is a year since Katherine Kerswell flounced out of Fisher’s Folly, helped on her way with a £50,000 pay-off approved by Perry so she didn’t have to work her notice period.
And it is four months since the council placed ads in the trade press seeking a new “champion” for Croydon.
And still we are no further forward.
Today, Perry’s bankrupt borough is on its third CEO in just 12 months, with Mike Jackson being paid at least £1,500 per day as an interim. Initially hired for six months, following Perry’s announcement to last night’s meeting of full council, it looks as if Jackson could be in Croydon’s hot seat for a while longer. Kerr-ching!
This is all turning into another costly shambles under the Tory Mayor. Continue reading
Not content with axing services that protect children, closing libraries and committing ‘cultural vandalism’ over CALAT, Croydon’s Mayor is now coming after lone-parent families and even disabled residents.
Did someone mention jobs for the Tory boys?
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.
