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Monthly Archives: August 2011
Woodley to ask Kenley: Is O’Connell worth £129,000?
Is Louisa Woodley, Labour’s candidate for the Croydon and Sutton London Assembly seat, being a little too bold in launching her campaign in Kenley this afternoon, right on the doorstep of incumbent Steve “I’m Worth It” O’Connell? Starting her bid … Continue reading
London Road stories: the Hassans’ laundrette
Mumtaz and and Mujahida Hassan, who are part of the persecuted Ahmadiyyan community, fled from Pakistan 17 years ago. Since then, they have built up a thriving Crystal Clean Laundrette business on the London Road, their income has helped them … Continue reading
Posted in Andrew Pelling, Broad Green, Business, Croydon 8/8, Croydon North
Tagged Andrew Pelling, Croydon, Jobcentre Plus, London, London Borough of Croydon, Pakistan
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Sadvertiser’s cheap photostunt amid other people’s misery
The Croydon Sadvertiser, it has to be said, has had a couple of good weeks editorially. With the Croydon riots, there was no need for stories involving photoshopped giraffes on page 3 (we did not make that up: they really … Continue reading
Posted in Broad Green, Croydon 8/8, Croydon North, Local media, Richard Ottaway MP
Tagged Allders, Cowes, Croydon, Croydon South, Lidl, London Road, Mayor, Member of parliament, Richard Ottaway, Twitter
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London Road stories: Okay Niyazi’s dry cleaning business
The first of a series of interviews with those left to pick through the wreckage of Croydon’s 8/8, features Okay Niyazi, whose family business was burnt to the ground “I watched on television as my business, which has been in … Continue reading
Posted in Andrew Pelling, Broad Green, Croydon 8/8, Croydon North
Tagged Business, Croydon, Dry cleaning, Jobcentre Plus, London, Small Business, Turkish Cypriot
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Online magazine offers another perspective on Shirley Life
The latest edition of Shirley Life, the online community magazine, is now available, with a range of fascinating articles and local news that should be of interest for the broader Croydon public, and not just Shirley residents. This month’s contents … Continue reading
Palace begin to believe after the journey to Hull and back
GOLDIE’s feathers are ruffled: his eagle eye is not used to seeing Palace immune from travel sickness So it’s finally happened. A Saturday away win for the Palace. Other than fish, you have to wonder what was in the Humberside … Continue reading
Posted in Crystal Palace FC, Football, Goldie, Sport
Tagged AFC Wimbledon, Crawley, Crawley Town F.C., Humberside, London, The Football League
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MP Wicks renews demand for urgent inquiry into Croydon riots
Ahead of tonight’s post-riots community action meeting at the Oshwal Centre, Croydon North MP Malcolm Wicks has again called for a public inquiry into the events of 8/8. “Croydon should establish its own inquiry into the borough’s riots, so that … Continue reading
DrupalCon starts with organiser disowning Hilley’s hubby
DrupalCon – the week-long conference being staged at Fairfield Hall for users and fans of an open-source content management system – gets underway today, with 1,800 delegates expected to give a much needed boost to Croydon hotels, bars and restaurants. … Continue reading
Free parking weekend? No signs of generosity from the council
We are halfway through a weekend when the “Business As Usual” signs have gone up all over riot-ravaged central Croydon. Businesses, TfL and the council are all rallying round after 8/8, with free Tram travel and special offers from a … Continue reading
Absent MP Ottaway doesn’t know what day it is
Croydon South‘s MP is not just absent in body, it seems, but absent minded, too. All the clues about when the rioting and civil disorder took place, with repeated references to “Croydon 8/8”, and which anyone who lives in the … Continue reading
Posted in Croydon 8/8, Croydon South, Lynne Hale, Richard Ottaway MP
Tagged Conservative, Cowes, Croydon, Croydon South, Government spending, London, Richard Ottaway, Riot
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Weekend rambles: Penshurst (5¼ miles; easy)
WALKER DUNELM strides back into action with this ramble through a beautiful part of Kent This walk links two picturesque villages and two historic houses: Penshurst Place, an Elizabethan house which was the home of Sir Philip Sidney, and Chiddingstone … Continue reading
Posted in Activities, Outside Croydon, Walker Dunelm, Walks
Tagged Chiddingstone, Penshurst
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Late, late show revives Palace fans’ great expectations
GOLDIE wings in after the opening three games suggesting that Palace might just take off this season I left the away terrace at Peterborough after the first game of the new Championship season in complete dismay, supplemented with more than … Continue reading
Posted in Crystal Palace FC, Football, Goldie, Sport
Tagged Darren Ambrose, Dougie Freedman, Jermaine Easter, Owen Garvan, Sean Scannell, Wilfried Zaha
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Did Hilley’s hubby get council to pay for “volunteers”?
Take a look at this collection of facts, and decide for yourself whether any of them are related: The Fairfield Halls in Croydon is not owned by the council, yet earlier this year, it received a £1.5 million grant from … Continue reading
McDonald’s new task: to help to re-build Croydon
You could be forgiven for wondering whether Stephen McDonald has been handed a poisoned chalice. It is certainly a case of out of the Olympic cauldron and into the (looters’) fire for the man announced today in an internal council … Continue reading
Residents outraged by latest vandalism on Higher Drive
It is not just around Wild West Croydon that vandals are to be found, it seems. Overnight on Sunday, the residents’ posters and banners that line Higher Drive, in leafy, suburban Kenley, were trashed, scrawled with graffiti and thrown aside. … Continue reading
Crisis? What Crisis? Ottaway’s getaway on his yacht
Two years ago, when faced with massive public disquiet over his outrageous expenses claims, including £100,000 towards his second home, the local Tories blinked when they had the chance to de-select the arrogant and self-satisfied Bletchingley resident, Richard Ottaway, as … Continue reading
Croydon police chief says her force was overstretched
In an extended interview with Inside Croydon columnist ANDREW PELLING, fitted in between a command meeting and maintaining high profile policing, Croydon’s Acting Borough Commander Jo Oakley defends the police’s performance in Monday’s riots With an ICM poll in The … Continue reading
Croydon 8/8: Do you agree with Cameron on policing the riots?
Four years ago, it was Dave “Hug a Hoodie” Cameron. Of course, our Prime Minister was away on holiday when Tottenham, Clapham and Croydon were burning last week. But yesterday, after recalling Parliament, the former Bullingdon Club member said this … Continue reading
Posted in Broad Green, Crime, Croydon 8/8, Croydon North, Malcolm Wicks MP
Tagged Bullingdon Club, Croydon, London, London Borough of Croydon, West Croydon station
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Lanfranc memorial service a chance for healing
Croydon Minster, unwittingly close to the geographic centre of Monday night’s infamous events, on Sunday will stage a memorial service to mark the 50th anniversary of a previous Croydon tragedy, the Archbishop Lanfranc School air disaster. On August 9, 1961, … Continue reading
Posted in Croydon North, History, Norbury, Schools, Thornton Heath, Waddon
Tagged Croydon, Lanfranc, London, Norway
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Croydon 8/8: “Go to Job Centre” devastated traders told
Saddening and maddening – as the dust settles on the scandalous behaviour of the rioters on Monday night, Croydon Council (motto: “Proud to Serve”) has managed to step in with its customary aplomb for offending and insulting people, on this … Continue reading
Posted in Broad Green, Business, Crime, Croydon 8/8, Croydon Council, Jon Rouse
Tagged Broad Green, Croydon, Croydon Council, London, London Borough of Croydon, Purley Way, Whitgift Centre
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