Daily Archives: July 10, 2011

Congratulations to Lawrence Okoye – British record-breaker

Congratulations to Lawrence Okoye, whose transition from rampaging rugby wing to British Olympic discus thrower took another massive bound yesterday when the Croydon Harrier broke the British senior record for his event, throwing 67.63 metres at a meeting at Barnet … Continue reading

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Croydon’s under-threat libraries: a timeline of council deceit?

An interesting development was finally spotted on Friday on Croydon Council’s “revamped” website. It is almost a month since Sara “Book Token” Bashford, the destroyer of anything cultural in Croydon, announced to a council meeting that rather than demonstrate “openness … Continue reading

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