The pedestrian level crossing over railway lines near Kenley Station, where 11-year-old schoolboy Jaiden Shehata died after being hit by a train in January 2025, had been recommended for a safety upgrade almost two years earlier, but nothing was done.
Fatal scene: the Bourneview level crossing was rated as needing improvement in May 2023 – almost two years before the incident in which Jaiden Shehata died
The Bourneview crossing was closed in August last year for safety improvements. It has not reopened to pedestrians since and remains “temporarily closed”.
A jury at the Coroner’s inquest into Jaiden Shehata’s death heard from Network Rail’s senior official for level crossings and public safety that Bourneview was considered to be “reasonably high risk”.
In January 2025, the crossing had only the most basic public safety assets: some signage and an iron “kissing gate” on one side of the crossing. Continue reading
Meetings are held in the United Reformed Church Hall, 3 Sanderstead Hill, CR2 0HB. There are usually two talks each month; they start at 8pm and finish at about 9pm.
Croydon’s Green Party councillors have written an open letter to Zotefoams, the Mitcham Road company that provides the go-faster foam for world-beating running shoes, to pause their redundancy process and re-think its plans to shift production to Vietnam.
CROYDON COMMENTARY: The collapse of a multi-million-pound contract to manage a children’s home in the borough has exposed the flaws in the procurement process and sunk Mayor Perry’s claims of running a ‘more efficient’ council.
It’s a seemingly modest light industrial site not far from Mitcham Common. Yet the cutting-edge materials produced at the Zotefoams factory are credited with helping deliver up to 20 running world records in the last decade, thanks to innovative “super shoes” made by US sportswear giant Nike.
The Labour opposition group at Croydon Town Hall has demanded that Mayor Jason Perry set up a “fast-track” and independent inquiry into how his council was forced to cancel a £8.6million contract with a care provider less than six months after the children’s home was opened.
St Christopher’s Fellowship strongly disputes a number of the assertions contained in Croydon Council’s report about our management of [home name], a care home offering short-term respite support for children and young people with complex needs.
