KEN LEE, Town Hall reporter, on how Croydon’s failed Mayor has been blindsided, again, by another major loss to the High Street
Blank screens: the Vue multiplex has operated 10 screens in the town centre since 2000
The latest hammerblow to Jason Perry’s bogus election claims that he has Croydon “back on track” and that “the Town Centre is coming back” arrived in voters’ inboxes yesterday, with the announcement that the Vue cinema in Grants, close to the Town Hall on Croydon High Street, is to close next week.
The 10-screen multiplex, with cinemas ranging in size from 88 to 396 seats, has been a feature of the entertainment centre since it opened in 2000.
Vue is behind the listed frontage of Croydon’s “other” department store, Grant’s, or what was once known as “the Harrod’s of south London”. The store closed in 1985, but the entertainment centre that eventually replaced it, after several years of the building standing vacant, helped to retain a vestige of town centre amenity, even after Allders closed and Westfield laid waste to the rest of the town centre with their development blight. Continue reading
ELECTION EXCLUSIVE: Reform in Croydon is in meltdown, with members resigning over top-down decisions from Farage HQ. WALTER CRONXITE, Political Editor, reports on the Fairfield Halls exercise in onanism, where the real fireworks were going off backstage 
Now is your chance. The Croydonites Fringe is returning from July 1 to 5 in venues across Croydon and South Norwood, and they are looking for bold and exciting work from comedy, theatre, dance, music, poetry and more!
The Ideal Home Show returns to Olympia London from April 10-19, bringing its most interactive and experience‑led edition yet to the capital.
Supplier relationships are central to how modern organisations operate. A single third-party failure, whether financial, regulatory or operational, can trigger consequences that ripple through an entire business.
CROYDON CHRONICLES: From the night of the Great Fire of Croydon, DAVID MORGAN tells the story of a family of vicars and bishops, of writers and editors, and Enigma codebreakers
With Tory Jason Perry’s election pledges dropping on residents’ doormats this week and Labour candidate Rowenna Davis publishing her manifesto, the claims and promises of the two front-runners for Croydon Mayor are examined here by ANDREW FISHER
Top of the Mayor’s list is “fixing the finances”, which will be news to both Croydon residents and the government Commissioners alike. This year, the council requested £119million of Exceptional Financial Support, up from £110 million last year, and up from £50m in 2023-2024.
ELECTION EXCLUSIVE: Less than 48 hours before he was due to be unveiled at the Fairfield Halls as his party’s pick to head their campaign in Croydon, Dan Milner-Tebbutt resigned. Political editor WALTER CRONXITE reveals his replacement, another Conservative defector to the party of grifters 
ELECTION SKETCH: In a cramped ‘hub’ in Broad Green, the first full hustings of the 2026 Croydon Mayor campaign took place last night. KEN TOWL was there, so you didn’t need to be (and you couldn’t have squeezed in, anyway)
Just five days before their party leader is expected at the Fairfield Halls for a rally to be attended by “thousands” (in a Concert Hall with a capacity of fewer than 1,800), and Reform Ltd in Croydon has changed their local chair for the third time in barely nine months.
