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Croydon gang livestreamed arson attack on Ukraine business
Eight men – four of them from Croydon – are on trial at the Old Bailey for a variety of charges in the first prosecution brought under the 2023 National Security Act, following a kidnapping plot against a Russian dissident … Continue reading
Posted in Crime
Tagged Arson, Ashton Evans, Dmitrijus Paulauskas, Duncan Penny KC, Dylan Earl, Jake Reeves, Jakeem Rose, Kremlin, Leyton, Nii Kojo Mensah, Old Bailey, Paul English, Russia, Starlink, Ugnius Asmena, Ukraine, Ukraine invasion, Vladimir Putin, Wagner Group, Warehouse arson attack, Yevgeny Chichvarkin
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Learner driver crashes double-decker into Norwood rail bridge
Rail services were suspended into and out of Norwood Junction, while Portland Road was closed to traffic for a period this afternoon after a double-decker bus drove into the railway bridge which carries one of the main lines from Croydon … Continue reading
New Addington shooting: two charged with attempted murder
Two men have been charged with attempted murder after a shot-gun shooting in New Addington. The Metropolitan Police have confirmed that 30-year-old Anthony Dasousa, of Station Approach, Coulsdon, has been charged with attempted murder and possession of a shotgun with … Continue reading
Posted in Crime, New Addington, Policing
Tagged Anthony Dasousa, Attempted murder, Metropolitan Police, New Addington, Shooting, Shot gun, Tevin Nzita, Walsh Crescent
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Owner Ansari seeks to avoid Leslie Arms planning conditions
CROYDON IN CRISIS: Since 2000, a multi-millionaire property developer has been allowing a Grade II-listed pub to decay. Now, he wants to change the conditions of his latest planning permission. KEN LEE, Town Hall reporter, on the sorry tale of … Continue reading
Posted in Addiscombe West, Business, Croydon Council, Housing, Leslie Arms, Planning, Property, Pubs, Tony Newman, Uncategorized
Tagged AA Homes, Addiscombe, Addiscombe West, Anwar Ansari, Cherry Orchard Road, Croydon, Croydon Council, Dogs attack, Dr Anwar Ansari, English Heritage, Kangal, Labour, Landlord licensing, Leslie Arms, Lloyd Park, Lower Addiscombe Road, Sadiq Khan, Sir Sadiq Khan, The Victorian Society, Tony Newman, Turkish Kangal, Yvette Cooper
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The sorry 25-year chronology of a once great Addiscombe pub
LESLIE ARMS TIMELINE Since 2020, the owner of the Grade II-listed Leslie Arms on Lower Addiscombe Road has submitted 13 separate planning applications for the building – 14 if you include his 2009 appeal against a refusal of a planning … Continue reading
Posted in Addiscombe West, Business, Croydon Council, History, Housing, Leslie Arms, Planning, Property, Pubs
Tagged AA Homes, Addiscombe, Anwar Ansari, Croydon, Croydon Council, Dr Anwar Ansari, Leslie Arms, Planning, pubs, Upper Addiscombe Road
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Shock and inaction is numbing communities to these killings
CROYDON COMMENTARY: The founder of a charity that addresses violence against women and girls, JENNIFER McDERMOTT, pictured right, responds to the tragic news at the weekend of Marjama Osman, another woman killed in the borough I am deeply saddened by … Continue reading
Posted in Cassandra Centre, Charity, Crime, Knife crime, Norbury, Policing
Tagged Care services, Cassandra Centre, Croydon, Croydon Care services, Croydon Council, Frith Road, Frith Road murder, Jennifer McDermott, knife crime, London Borough of Croydon, Marjama Osman, Metropolitan Police, murder, Social Services, VAWG, Violence Against Women and Girls
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Trebles all-round! Kerswell’s nominated herself for an award
CROYDON IN CRISIS: The council still has debts of £1.4bn, or more, but that won’t stop a select few execs attending a gala event at a Mayfair hotel next week, where tables cost up to £5,000 and our bureaucrats are … Continue reading
Posted in Alisa Flemming, Alison Butler, Council Tax, Croydon Council, Katherine Kerswell, Mayor Jason Perry, Section 114 notice, Tony Newman, Veolia
Tagged Alisa Flemming, Alison Butler, Conservative, Council Tax, Croydon, Croydon Council, Grosvenor House Hotel, Katherine Kerswell, Labour, LGC, Local Government Chronicle, Local Government Chronicle Awards, London Borough of Croydon, Mayor Jason Perry, Tony Newman, Tory
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Humiliated Perry gets police to evict Wandle Park squatters
EXCLUSIVE by STEVEN DOWNES and AUSTEN COOPER Officers from the Metropolitan Police moved in on the squatters at the Wandle Park café this morning – without any prior notice as is usually required to secure an eviction. It is suggested … Continue reading
Posted in Broad Green, Business, Croydon Council, Croydon parks, Friends of Wandle Park, Mayor Jason Perry, Waddon, Wandle Park
Tagged Broad Green, Conservative, Croydon, Croydon Council, Friends of Wandle Park, Labour, London Borough of Croydon, Mayor Jason Perry, Reclaim Croydon, Waddon, Wandle Park, Wandle Park cafe
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Chance to see Shaun the Sheep at BFI without getting fleeced
Hundreds of Croydon schoolchildren could get to enjoy a free animated movie from Oscar-winners Aardman, if their teachers get a hurry on, and all thanks to the latest initiative from an arts charity. As part of the Primary Arts Go … Continue reading
Overdue maintenance works approved for six Croydon schools
Pupils and staff at six schools in Croydon are to benefit from the roll-out of a multi-million-pound maintenance programme, funded by the government, with £110.3million being invested in schools across London through the Condition Improvement Fund. The schools will benefit … Continue reading
Posted in Beckmead Park, BRIT School, Croydon West, Education, Norbury Manor, Sarah Jones MP, Schools
Tagged Beckmead College, Conservative, Croydon, Croydon West, Labour, Norbury Manor, Orchard Way Primary School, Sarah Jones MP, St Mary’s Catholic Junior and Infants, St Thomas Becket Catholic Primary School, The BRIT School, Tory
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‘It has to be’: Westfield scheme needs millions of public money
UNDER THE FLYOVER: In our latest podcast interview, housing specialist Fiona Fletcher-Smith, now the volunteer chair of the Whitgift Foundation’s governors, discusses the housing crisis, the closure of Old Palace School, what’s happening with the long-promised ‘kiosks’ in the Allders … Continue reading
Posted in "Hammersfield", Allders, Boris Johnson, Business, Charity, Croydon Council, Fiona Fletcher Smith, Housing, Inside Croydon, London-wide issues, Mayor Jason Perry, Mayor of London, North End Quarter, Planning, Property, Sadiq Khan, Under The Flyover, Unibail-Rodamco-Westfield, Whitgift Centre, Whitgift Foundation
Tagged Boris Johnson, Court of Governors, Croydon, Croydon Council, Fiona Fletcher-Smith, GLA, Hammersfield, London, Mayor, Mayor Jason Perry, Roisha Hughes, Under The Flyover, Unibail Rodamco Westfield, URW, Westfield, Whitgift Centre, Whitgift Foundation
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Take a journey back in time with the 418 vintage bus day
There’s a heritage bus day being staged this Sunday, June 8, on the 418 route between Kingston and Bookham in Surrey. And all journeys are free. Organised by the London Bus Museum, vintage vehicles from the 1940s to the 1990s … Continue reading
Posted in Activities, History, London-wide issues, Outside Croydon, TfL, Transport
Tagged Bookham, Brooklands, Epsom, Kingston, Leatherhead, London Bus Museum, Route 418, Surrey, TfL, Tolworth, Transport for London, Vintage Bus Day
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Frith Road murder victim is named while second man arrested
Scotland Yard this afternoon named the woman murdered on Frith Road on Saturday morning as 26-year-old Marjama Osman. The police also revealed that they have now arrested two men, both on suspicion of murder, though both have been released on … Continue reading
£1,000 per day ‘Interim Adam’ lands Croydon planning job
CROYDON IN CRISIS: The council has made no announcement about who has taken over the borough’s top planning job, but this website has discovered that Heather Cheesbrough’s stand-in replacement is an ‘interim specialist’ who has pocketed more than £500,000 in … Continue reading
Posted in "Hammersfield", Adam Wilkinson, Brick by Brick, Business, CPO, Croydon Council, Heather Cheesbrough, Jo Negrini, Katherine Kerswell, Mayor Jason Perry, Planning, Unibail-Rodamco-Westfield, Whitgift Centre
Tagged Adam Wilkinson, Brick by Brick, Conservative, Croydon, Croydon Council, Derby City Council, Heather Cheesbrough, Kent County Council, London, London Borough of Croydon, Mayor Jason Perry, Planning, Tory, Westfield, Whitgift Centre
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Where Mayor Perry has failed, squatters have opened park café
Squatters have taken over the café in Wandle Park. And they have been making a better job of serving the community than the council has managed in more than five years. Mayor Jason Perry first promised to have the café … Continue reading
Posted in Broad Green, Business, Croydon Council, Croydon parks, Friends of Wandle Park, Mayor Jason Perry, Rowenna Davis, Waddon, Wandle Park
Tagged Broad Green, Conservative, Croydon, Croydon Council, Friends of Wandle Park, Labour, London Borough of Croydon, Mayor Jason Perry, Rowenna Davis, Waddon, Wandle Park, Wandle Park bandstand, Wandle Park cafe
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Croydon’s man of adventure who founded New Zealand town
SUNDAY SUPPLEMENT: Of the various places called ‘Croydon’ around the world, the one on New Zealand’s south island has a particularly well-recorded history, as DAVID MORGAN found out Nathaniel Chalmers was a pioneer and a frontiersman, one of the people … Continue reading
Posted in David Morgan, History
Tagged Addiscombe, Australia, Croydon, David Morgan, East India Company College, Fiji, Gore, Nathaniel Chalmers, New Zealand, Otago, Southland, Victoria
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Man arrested in Frith Road stabbing murder investigation
A woman in her 20s was killed and a man in his 30s was taken to hospital for urgent treatment before being arrested on suspicion of murder after what the Metropolitan Police described as “an isolated incident” on Frith Road … Continue reading
Delve into the history of Crystal Palace Park in a day of talks
There is to be a “Festival of Park Talks” and a volunteer fair in Crystal Palace Park on Saturday June 14. Suitable for children and adults, the day includes talks about the park’s history from local experts. There will be … Continue reading
Old Palace up for ‘wellbeing’ award just weeks before closure
CROYDON IN CRISIS: The fee-paying girls’ school in Old Town has been shortlisted for a prize at a national awards event to be staged at a 5-star hotel where tickets cost £245 per head. By GENE BRODIE, education correspondent With … Continue reading
Posted in Jane Burton, Old Palace, Red Gates School, Schools, Whitgift Foundation
Tagged Bensham Manor School, Croydon, Old Palace, Old Palace School, Old Palace School of John Whitgift, Red Gates School, Sutton High School, TES Schools Awards, Times Education Supplement, Westfield, Whitgift Centre, Whitgift Foundation
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Knife attack on Frith Road in broad daylight claims two victims
MURDER IN THE MARKET: The latest violent stabbing incident off Surrey Street, thought to have claimed the life of one victim, has raised further concerns about crime levels in central Croydon Inside Croydon has received eyewitness reports of a knife … Continue reading
