Daily Archives: October 6, 2013

Old battlegrounds revisited as local elections get ever closer

Posted on October 6, 2013 by insidecroydon

It is just 229 days until the May morning when the winners, and losers, will be declared of local elections that will determine who runs Croydon Town Hall until 2018 – potentially to reap all the political benefits of the … Continue reading →

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Boris embraces £500m “beautiful idea” but is short on detail

Posted on October 6, 2013 by insidecroydon

A community group that has been working with Bromley and the Greater London Authority for years towards an agreed redevelopment of Crystal Palace Park says that the £500 million plan announced by a Chinese businessman to recreate Joseph Paxton‘s Victorian … Continue reading →

Posted in Boris Johnson, Bromley Council, Business, Community associations, Crystal Palace and Upper Norwood, Crystal Palace Community Association, Crystal Palace Park, Environment, History, London-wide issues, Mayor of London, Planning | Tagged , , , , , , , | 5 Comments

Barwell’s schools arithmetic offers only a partial picture

Posted on October 6, 2013 by insidecroydon

GENE BRODIE, our education correspondent, has ordered a local MP to write 100 lines: “I must not deceive by using partial statistics on Croydon’s schools’ performance” Gary Barlow, as the MP is known to his constituents in Croydon Central, from … Continue reading →

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