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Monthly Archives: April 2024
Obasa’s goal wins the Trams their first silverware in 15 years
NON-LEAGUE NEWS by ANDREW SINCLAIR at the War Memorial Sports Ground Croydon FC are cup-winners! Croydon won the London Senior Trophy last night, beating Wimbledon Casuals 1-0 in an often tense encounter staged at Carshalton Athletic’s ground.
Council chief Kerswell has doubled up on £140,000+ executives
CROYDON IN CRISIS: While more than 400 frontline jobs have been axed since 2020, the executive suite in Fisher’s Folly has barely been touched. But the council CEO is spending even more on ‘cost-cutting’ consultants. EXCLUSIVE by STEVEN DOWNES Katherine … Continue reading
Posted in Council Tax, Croydon Council, Improvement Board, Jo Negrini, Katherine Kerswell, Mayor Jason Perry, Section 114 notice
Tagged 15% Council Tax hike, Conservative, Corporate directors, Council Tax, Croydon, Croydon Council, Elaine Jackson, Executive directors, Hamida Ali, Jo Negrini, Katherine Kerswell, Labour, London Borough of Croydon, Mayor Jason Perry, Regina Road, Tony Newman, Tory
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Purley’s 14-foot sinkhole could take council four weeks to fix
The roads in and around Croydon have more holes in them than a slab of Swiss cheese, with works being undertaken, and then postponed, on Coulsdon Road near The Fox pub, and a dangerously deep sinkhole opening up last week … Continue reading
Posted in Coulsdon, Croydon Council, Environment, Old Coulsdon, Purley, Samir Dwesar
Tagged Caterham, Coulsdon, FM Conway, Hartley Hill, Old Coulsdon, Purley, Samir Dwesar, Thames Water, The Fox, The Fox Coulsdon, The Purley Sinkhole
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Second M25 closure confirmed for weekend of May 10 to 13
National Highways has confirmed that the M25 will be subject to another closure for major works between Friday May 10 and Monday May 13. The London orbital motorway will be completely closed between Junctions 9 at Leatherhead and 10 at … Continue reading
Posted in Coulsdon, Transport
Tagged A23, Coulsdon, M23, M25, M25 closure, National Highways
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Physics award-winner to give Astronomical Society talk
Arabi Karteepan, recently named as the winner of the Royal Astronomical Society’s prestigious education award, is to give a talk tomorrow night in Croydon: “A journey to reach the Stratosphere”. Croydon High School’s head of physics will explain how the … Continue reading
Labour in Town Hall row over who gets to wear fancy dress
More squabbles among Croydon’s Labour councillors, but not over the cash-strapped council’s finances, library closures or the axing of other services to residents. The latest row was over who gets to wear the ridiculous robes and chain of the borough’s … Continue reading
Posted in 2024 General Election, 2026 council elections, Appu Srinivasan, Kola Agboola, New Addington, New Addington North, Norbury Park, Stella Nabukeera, Tony Pearson
Tagged Appu Srinivasan, Conservative, Croydon, Croydon Council, Kola Agboola, Labour, London Borough of Croydon, Mayor, New Addington, New Addington North, Simon Hall, Stella Nabukeera, Tony Pearson, Tory
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Seth to start as Whitgift School’s new headmaster from 2025
Toby Seth is to take over as headmaster of Whitgift School, it has been announced. The financially challenged Whitgift Foundation, Croydon’s biggest landowners, made the announcement at lunchtime today, with Seth to take charge from September 2025. The Foundation and … Continue reading
More than 2,500 sign petition to save Sanderstead Library
A petition to keep Sanderstead Library open has attracted more than 2,500 signatures. Sanderstead is one of four libraries earmarked for closure as part of Mayor Jason Perry’s plans to “reorganise” Croydon’s library service. The petition demands that Croydon Council … Continue reading
Posted in Broad Green, Community associations, Coulsdon, Croydon Council, Libraries, Old Coulsdon, Sanderstead, Sanderstead Residents Association, Shirley North, Shirley South
Tagged 15% Council Tax hike, Bradmore Green, Bradmore Green Library, Broad Green Library, Conservative, Coulsdon, Croydon, Croydon Council, London Borough of Croydon, Old Coulsdon, Richard Pacitti, Sanderstead, Sanderstead Library, Sanderstead Residents' Association, Shirley, Shirley Library, Tory
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Tories relieved as LibDems opt for lightweights in Sutton
The Liberal Democrats may have managed to hand the hotly contested Sutton and Cheam parliamentary seat to the Conservatives already with their short-of-talent candidate shortlist, reports BELLE MONT Imagine the embarrassment for former BBC reporter John “Foghorn” Sweeney: all those … Continue reading
Plumber convicted for converting toy guns into lethal weapons
A south London plumber who converted blank-firing replica guns into lethal weapons has been jailed for seven years and two months following a National Crime Agency investigation. Evan Girdlestone, age 48, was arrested by officers from the NCA’s Armed Operations … Continue reading
Posted in Crime, London-wide issues, Policing
Tagged Evan Girdlestone, illegal guns, National Crime Agency, NCA, Plumber
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‘The dog that didn’t bite’: how ULEZ has become a non-issue
Just 1-in-200 Londoners are impacted by the extension of ULEZ to outer London and are paying a £12.50 fine for driving older, more-polluting vehicles in the capital. That’s the findings of a Freedom of Information request conducted by BBC London, … Continue reading
Posted in 2024 London elections, Crime, Environment, Health, London Assembly, London-wide issues, Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, Susan Hall, TfL, Transport, ULEZ, ULEZ expansion, Under The Flyover
Tagged Clean Air London, Conservative, Croydon say no to ULEZ expansion, Green Party, London, London Assembly, Mayor, Susan Hall, TfL, Tory, Transport for London, ULEZ, ULEZ expansion, Zack Polanski
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All you will ever need to know about the 2024 London elections
With the London elections, and two Croydon ward by-elections, just weeks away, our latest episode of the Croydon Insider, our monthly news podcast, discusses what your vote counts for, how the voting system has changed for London Mayor, which parts … Continue reading
Posted in 2024 London elections, Andrew Fisher, Croydon Council, Croydon Insider, Inside Croydon, London Assembly, London-wide issues, Mayor of London, Park Hill and Whitgift, Under The Flyover, Woodside
Tagged 2024 London elections, Andrew Fisher, Brian Finegan, Croydon Insider, London Elections, London elections 2024, Park Hill and Whitgift, Patreon, Podcast, Rev Ruth Chapman, Spotify, Under The Flyover, Woodside
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Prize for police dogs after six arrests at Croydon gun incident
Two police constables who work in and around Croydon, Colin Chappell and Dave Asquith, along with their loyal partners, police dogs Remus and Sherpa, have won this year’s National Police Chiefs’ Council Police Dog Action of the Year Award. Six … Continue reading
Posted in Andy Brittain, Crime, London-wide issues, Policing
Tagged Ch Supt Andy Brittain, Croydon, Metropolitan Police, Police dogs
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Hallowell’s voyage from Boston to Beddington, via Brickwood
SUNDAY SUPPLEMENT: The naval career of an American-born admiral who provided the hero of Trafalgar with his coffin, traced all the way to Croydon and then to Carew Manor by DAVID MORGAN What is the most unusual gift that you … Continue reading
Posted in Croydon Minster, David Morgan, History
Tagged Admiral Sir Benjamin Hallowell Carew, American Revolution, Battle of the Nile, Battle of Trafalgar, Benjamin Hallowell, Boston, Brickwood House, Carew Manor, Croydon Minster, David Morgan, HMS Swiftsure, HMS Victory, Horatio Nelson, John Singleton Copley, L'Orient, Lord Nelson
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Police name Surrey Street murder victim as Rijkaard Siafa
The Metropolitan Police has named the victim of Friday’s murder on Surrey Street as 22-year-old Rijkaard Salu Siafa, from Croydon. Officers continue to support Rijkaard’s family. A 20-year-old man who was arrested at the scene on suspicion of murder remains … Continue reading
Illustrated talk: Croydon in old postcards, St Peter’s, May 19
Posted in Activities, Charity, Church and religions, History
Tagged History, Postcards, South Croydon, St Peter's Church
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Bleak, dark and challenging – TWC’s Orca is a play with bite
Theatre Workshop Coulsdon’s latest production, Orca, opens next weekend, and if you’ve followed TWC down the years, you’ll know this ambitious group like to ring the changes from their usual, lighthearted and irreverent fare, with the occasional more serious piece. … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Coulsdon, Theatre, Theatre Workshop Coulsdon
Tagged Matt Grinter, Orca, Richard Lloyd, Theatre Workshop Coulsdon
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Murder on Surrey Street Market: police make one arrest
A crime scene remained in place on Fellmonger’s Yard and parts of Surrey Street Market this morning, following the murder in broad daylight yesterday of a 20-year-old man. People on the market at just before 6pm on Friday related seeing … Continue reading
Ex-BBC broadcaster in running for Sutton LibDem selection
BELLE MONT, our Sutton political editor, on a selection race that might make the TV news Former BBC Panorama and Newsnight reporter John Sweeney – known, unaffectionately, as “Foghorn” by the wags at Private Eye – is among the applicants … Continue reading
Posted in 2024 General Election, London-wide issues, Paul Scully MP, Sutton Council, Tom Drummond
Tagged BBC Newsnight, BBC Panorama, Conservative, David Campanale, John Sweeney, Liberal Democrats, Luisa Porritt, Luke Taylor, Paul Scully MP, Sutton, Sutton and Cheam, Sutton Council, Tom Drummond, Tommy Robinson, Tory, Ukraine
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