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Croydon BMX sessions, Thu and Sat, Norbury Park
Posted in Croydon parks, Cycling, Norbury, Norbury Park, Sport
Tagged Croydon, Norbury, Norbury Park, Norbury Park BMX track
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Photographer with focus on peace stages Clocktower exhibit
Seven years ago in August, the people of Croydon watched in fear and horror as rioters took over our streets, ransacking shops, attacking bystanders and setting fire to local businesses. The image of Reeves Corner blazing furiously against the night … Continue reading
Posted in Activities, Art, Croydon 8/8, Museum of Croydon
Tagged Lenses of Croydon, Museum of Croydon, Rob Wilson Jr
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Documentary-maker Dineen to attend Screen25’s Q&A
Molly Dineen, the BAFTA-winning film-maker, will be at the screening of her latest documentary, Being Blacker, at the Screen25 film club in South Norwood next Wednesday, where she will take questions from the audience alongside the subject of the movie, … Continue reading
Shakespeare’s star-crossed lovers face fate in Wandle Park
In the city of Verona, the Montagues and the Capulets are locked in a long-standing family feud. A chance encounter between Romeo, the only son of the Montagues, and Juliet, the only daughter of the Capulets, sparks an intense love … Continue reading
Posted in Art, CODA, Croydon parks, Theatre, Wandle Park
Tagged CODA, Croydon Operatic and Dramatic Association, Wandle Park
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Khan’s kerbside wildernesses are leaving Croydon in a mess
JEREMY CLACKSON reports on the rapidly growing problem at the side of many of the borough’s roads As Mayor of London, never let it be said that Sadiq Khan doesn’t let the grass grow under his feet. Because everywhere you … Continue reading
Posted in London-wide issues, Mayor of London, Purley Way, Sadiq Khan, Shirley North, TfL, Transport, Waddon
Tagged Croydon, Labour, London, London Assembly, Mayor, Mayor of London, Purley, Sadiq Khan, Shirley, TfL, Transport for London, Waddon
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MP Jones to speak against Addiscombe Road flats scheme
Our housing correspondent, BARRATT HOLMES, reports on cross-party opposition to a property speculators’ multi-million-pound scheme that could change the exclusive Whitgift Estate forever Sarah Jones, Croydon Central’s Labour MP, will tomorrow night speak out at a Town Hall meeting against … Continue reading
Posted in Croydon Central, Croydon Council, Housing, London Assembly, London-wide issues, Mayor of London, Parking, Paul Scott, Pete Smith, Planning, Property, Queen's Hotel, Sadiq Khan, Sarah Jones MP, Steve O'Connell, Tony Newman, Vidhi Mohan, Wayne Lawlor
Tagged Conservative, Croydon Central, Croydon Council, Labour, London Borough of Croydon, Park Hill and Whitgift Estate, Paul Scott, Sarah Jones MP, Steve O'Connell, Tory, Vidhi Mohan
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Trading Standards warns of iTunes scam targeting pensioners
The council’s trading standards team is warning about a phone scam targeting pensioners, after a South Croydon woman was duped out of £650 worth of iTunes vouchers. The woman was telephoned out of the blue by a man who said … Continue reading
Croydon pupils among guests at Hawking’s Abbey memorial
Four pupils from a group of independent schools based in Purley and South Croydon were among the hundreds of specially invited attendees at last Friday’s Service of Thanksgiving at Westminster Abbey for Professor Stephen Hawking. The pupils were chosen from … Continue reading
Posted in Cedars School, Oakwood, Schools
Tagged Oakwood School, PACT Educational Trust, Purley, South Croydon, The Cedars School
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109th annual Chipstead Village Flower Show and Fair, Jul 14
Posted in Activities, Chipstead, Outside Croydon, Surrey
Tagged Chipstead, Coulsdon, Surrey
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Halloween Mini-Explorers, Honeywood Museum, Oct 24
Posted in Honeywood Museum
Tagged Carshalton, Friends of Honeywood Museum, Honeywood Museum
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Ex-councillor quits Tory party and blasts local leadership
Another former Tory councillor has quit Croydon Conservatives, launching a farewell blast at the party’s local leadership. Tony Pearson, who was a councillor for New Addington until 2014, announced over the weekend that he was quitting the Tories, complaining that … Continue reading
Posted in New Addington, Tony Pearson
Tagged Conservative, Crystal Palace, Democrats and Veterans Party, DVP, New Addington, New Addington South, Tony Pearson, Tory, UKIP
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Losing LibDems ‘expel’ pensioner – who was not party member
BELLE MONT, our Sutton reporter, on the first sign of recriminations among that borough’s ruling party MP Tom Brake and Sutton’s Liberal Democrats, still reeling from the shock of last month’s local elections in which they lost 12 council seats, … Continue reading
Purley Oaks Primary Summer Fair, South Croydon, Jun 23
Posted in Community associations, Purley Oaks
Tagged Purley Oaks Primary, South Croydon
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Council withholds £1m from Veolia for bin service failings
Croydon Council has withheld nearly £1million in fees due to street-cleaning and bin-collecting contractors Veolia because of poor performance, Inside Croydon has learned. The penalty has been applied by Croydon’s clean and green cabinet member, Stuart Collins, because of various … Continue reading
UNACC Summer Party By The Lake, South Norwood, Jul 20
Posted in Charity, Crystal Palace and Upper Norwood, South Norwood
Tagged South Norwood Lakes, UNACC
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Driver faces threat of £100 fine for shopping at BP petrol station
When a South Norwood-based businessman popped in to the BP garage on Mitcham Road expecting to pay for a tank of fuel, a bottle of wine and a car wash, he got a shock weeks later when he received an … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Parking, South Norwood
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Shirley-based choir will go out with a bang at final concert
The curtain will come down next month on a community choir which has been been giving top-level performances for nearly 40 years. But the Ruskin Chorale won’t be singing its own requiem at their grand final concert in Shirley on … Continue reading
Homelessness charity chair calls for end to ‘no-fault’ evictions
With Croydon Council’s ‘campaign’ against street begging in the town centre on-going, EBONY GORDON spoke to Jad Adams, the long-standing chair of the borough’s homelessness charity, Nightwatch Every night in Queen’s Gardens, a group of trained volunteers assist scores of … Continue reading
Posted in Charity, Croydon Nightwatch, Housing, Jad Adams
Tagged Croydon, Croydon Council, Croydon Nightwatch, Jad Adams, London Borough of Croydon
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