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Back To The 80s Night, Regina Coeli School, Dec 15
Posted in Regina Coeli, Schools, South Croydon
Tagged Regina Coeli School, South Croydon, Waddon
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South East Cancer Help Centre Christmas Fair, Purley, Nov 10
Posted in Charity, Purley, South East Cancer Help Centre
Tagged Purley, South East Cancer Help Centre
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NHS set to announce A&E and Maternity closures at St Helier
NHS chiefs in Merton will later this week propose the closure of the Accident and Emergency department and the Maternity unit at St Helier Hospital, according to an MP for the area. The MP, Siobhain McDonagh, warns that any such … Continue reading
PICTURE SPECIAL: Veteran Car Run returns to Croydon
After a two-year diversion (roadworks on the A23 at Brixton Hill, as it happens), the London to Brighton Veteran Car Run chugged and puffed its way through Croydon once again yesterday morning, with hundreds of vintage vehicles having their annual … Continue reading
Pupils excluded from schools at risk from crime gangs – survey
Growing numbers of children excluded from school in Croydon and across London are being left at risk of involvement in knife crime and violence, according to research from children’s charity Barnardo’s and the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Knife Crime. In … Continue reading
Posted in Charity, Crime, Croydon Central, Knife crime, Sarah Jones MP, Schools
Tagged Croydon, Croydon Central, knife crime, Labour, London, Sarah Jones MP
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Calls for council to halt use of weedkiller linked to cancer
Weedkillers including glyphosate, which has been linked to causing cancer in humans, continue to be used by Croydon Council, whose contractors even spray the substance around public parks and children’s playgrounds. Now Friends of the Earth is calling on the … Continue reading
Three Croydon high streets among ‘unhealthiest’ in London
Another day, another survey that demonstrates that Croydon is slowly deteriorating into decay, poverty and neglect. The Royal Society of Public Health published a list of “Unhealthiest Streets” this week, and Croydon was the only borough that had three entries … Continue reading
Posted in Alison Butler, Croydon Council, Environment, Fiona Twycross, Health, London Assembly, London-wide issues, Mayor of London, New Addington, New Addington North, Oliver Lewis, Paul Scott, Sadiq Khan, Simon Hall, South Norwood, Thornton Heath, Tony Newman
Tagged Addiscombe West, Alison Butler, Croydon Council, Labour, London, London Assembly, London Borough of Croydon, New Addington, Norbury, Oliver Lewis, Paul Scott, Simon Hall, South Norwood, Thornton Heath, Tony Newman
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Macmillan Cancer’s advice bus is coming to North End
Macmillan Cancer mobile information team will be parking up in Croydon town centre on Wednesday to encourage residents to be aware of the signs and symptoms of the disease during Lung Cancer Awareness Month this November. Melissa Foley, a Macmillan … Continue reading
Come to Croydon’s cabaret: 5 Spectacular tickets for price of 4
Inside Croydon readers who want to help to celebrate CODA’s big birthday party next week can now do so with a really Spectacular money-saving offer. CODA – the Croydon Operatic and Dramatic Association – is marking its 75th anniversary year … Continue reading
Posted in Braithwaite Hall, CODA, Comedy, Dance, Music, Theatre
Tagged Braithwaite Hall, CODA, Croydon Clocktower, Croydon Operatic and Dramatic Association
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Wanderers seek help for a settled home in Upper Norwood
Wanderers FC, the first winners of the FA Cup in 1872, have agreed a three-year partnership with Virgo Fidelis Convent School in Upper Norwood to allow the club’s two men’s teams and women’s XI to host home matches there. However, … Continue reading
Yasmin Le Bon revs up a supermodel for the Veteran Car Run
From Norbury through Thornton Heath, under the Flyover and down through South Croydon into Purley and on to Coulsdon, the Veteran Car Run returns to Croydon’s roads this Sunday after a two-year absence, with celebs and vintage vehicles dazzling in … Continue reading
Posted in Activities, Charity, Coulsdon, History, Norbury, Purley
Tagged Coulsdon, London to Brighton Veteran Car Rally, Norbury, Purley, South Croydon, Thornton Heath
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Christmas Concert, St John’s Old Coulsdon, Dec 15
Posted in Art, Coulsdon, Music, Old Coulsdon
Tagged Coulsdon, East Surrey Choral Society, Old Coulsdon
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Thornton Heath Christmas Fair, St Stephen’s, Nov 24
THORNTON HEATH CHRISTMAS FAIR St Stephen’s Church, Warwick Road, CR 7 7NH Saturday 24th November – 11am to 3pm Stalls, raffles, tombola, quality gifts and seasonal entertainments and refreshments
Posted in Activities, Church and religions, Norbury, Thornton Heath
Tagged Norbury, St Stephen's Church, Thornton Heath
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Colonnades purchase is massive gamble with public money
CROYDON COMMENTARY: Spending millions to buy a private business risks feather bedding property speculators, says DEREK THROWER Under a Conservative government, local authorities, including Croydon Council, are being given public cash to nationalise private assets and land. That’s quite extraordinary … Continue reading
Council pays £53m to buy ‘unloved’ Colonnades centre
The business “brains” at Fisher’s Folly have gone out and splurged £53million of public money to buy the freehold of the “unloved” and rarely visited Colonnades retail and leisure park – just as industry experts are warning that 200 such … Continue reading
Posted in "Hammersfield", Boxpark, Business, Centrale, Croydon Council, Croydon Park Hotel, Property, Purley Way, Simon Hall, Waddon, Whitgift Centre
Tagged Boxpark, Colonnades, Croydon Council, Hammersfield, Hammerson, Labour, London Borough of Croydon, Purley Way, Waddon, Westfield, Whitgift Centre
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Croydon is worst in all London for asthma attack cases
PAUL LUSHION, our environment correspondent, on some very worrying scientific findings about air quality in Croydon – before the Beddington incinerator even begins full operation According to the Evening Standard, “Croydon has been named the worst borough in London for … Continue reading
Warlingham bounce back to keep alive promotion talk
RUGBY ROUND-UP: For rugby alickados, the old farts in blazers, there’s long been a sense that the club season hasn’t properly started until the clocks go back, and kick-off for Saturday matches is brought forward from 3pm. And there’s also … Continue reading
Posted in Croydon RFC, Old Mid-Whitgiftians/Trinity RFC, Old Walcountians, Old Whitgiftians, Purley-John Fisher, Rugby Union, Sport, Streatham-Croydon RFC, Warlingham RFC
Tagged Croydon RFC, Old Mid-Whitgiftians, Old Walcountians, Old Whitgiftians, Purley-John Fisher, Streatham and Croydon RFC, Warlingham RFC
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Heathfield House Grand Christmas Bazaar, Dec 2
Posted in Environment, Gardening, Heathfield House, Wildlife
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Victoria Station faces 12-day shutdown over Christmas period
Christmas is a’coming, just not by train (again). If you’re planning on going anywhere in central London over the end-of-year period, you might as well as forget trying to do so by train, as Southern has announced a host of … Continue reading
Posted in East Croydon, Transport
Tagged East Croydon station, Gatwick Express, Southern Rail, Victoria Station
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MP Philp: ‘I stand by my Swiss border tweet completely’
Our political editor, WALTER CRONXITE, discovers that the borough’s Conservative MP is entirely unaware of the old saying, ‘When in a hole, stop digging…’ Croydon South MP Chris Philp says, “I stand by the tweet completely,” after he attempted to … Continue reading
Posted in Chris Philp MP, Croydon South
Tagged Brexit, Chris Philp MP, Conservative, Croydon South, Tory
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