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Something doesn’t sniff right as security firm breaks the law
EXCLUSIVE: Industry body says it is ‘appalled’ at the search of football fans outside Selhurst Park by staff from a private security company who failed to show their ID and licence, as is required by the law. PETER GILLMAN investigates … Continue reading
Posted in Crime, Crystal Palace FC, Football, Inside Croydon, London-wide issues, Peter Gillman, Policing
Tagged Croydon, Crystal Palace FC, Football Supporters Association, Holmesdale Stand, InvictaK9, Metropolitan Police, National Training Inspectorate for Professional Dog Users, Peter Gillman, Private Security Industry Act 2001, Scotland Yard, Security Industry Authority, Selhurst, Selhurst Park
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Mozart Players seek new CEO as Le Brocq leaves for Rutland
The London Mozart Players, the classical orchestra notionally based at Croydon’s Fairfield Halls, is seeking a new chief executive. The orchestra has announced that Flynn Le Brocq, who has been CEO since 2021, is to leave in August, having accepted … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Fairfield Halls, London Mozart Players, Music
Tagged Croydon, Fairfield Halls, Flynn Le Brocq, London Mozart Players
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Trinity pupils Go For Gold in BAFTA’s computer games awards
Two boys at Trinity School have made it into the finals of BAFTA’s Young Game Designer of the Year Awards. It is the second year running that Sam Kingston and Sebastian Heitz have made it to the finals of these … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Education, Schools, Trinity School
Tagged BAFTA, BAFTA Young Game Designers awards, Sam Kingston, Sebastian Heitz, Trinity School
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Transport Museum reaches a new stage with children’s theatre
A new theatre show is being premiered at the Transport Museum in Covent Garden this half-term week, aimed at children aged between five and 11. Transport Explorers: A Live Show runs in the Cubic Theatre through to June 1. The … Continue reading
Posted in Activities, Education, TfL, Theatre, Transport
Tagged Covent Garden, Cubic Theatre, TfL, Transport for London, Transport Museum
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Carers Centre users claim to be excluded from CQC inspection
CROYDON IN CRISIS: An internal council memo warns staff to be on their best behaviour in Fisher’s Folly while inspectors from the Care Quality Commission are on the premises this week, looking into the borough’s adult social care provision. EXCLUSIVE … Continue reading
Posted in Adult Social Care, Annette McPartland, Carers First, Charity, Croydon Council, Katherine Kerswell, Mayor Jason Perry, Whitgift Foundation
Tagged Adult Social Care, Annette McPartland, Care Quality Commission, Carers First, Conservative, CQC, Croydon, Croydon Carers Centre, Croydon Carers Support Centre, Croydon Council, George Street, Katherine Kerswell, London Borough of Croydon, Mayor Jason Perry, Tory, Whitgift Foundation
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After 120-year wait, it was tears of joy at Palace’s parade party
Inside Croydon’s PETER GILLMAN followed the team from Wembley to SE25 for yesterday’s outpouring of joy at the Palace victory parade Even now, it seemed unreal. Here we were on a packed Whitehorse Lane yesterday, waiting for the Crystal Palace … Continue reading
Posted in Crystal Palace FC, Eberechi Eze, Football, Holmesdale Fanatics, Inside Croydon, Oliver Glasner, Peter Gillman, Steve Parish
Tagged 2025 FA Cup final, Croydon, Crystal Palace, Crystal Palace and Upper Norwood, Crystal Palace FC, Daniel Munoz, Eberechi Eze, Holmesdale Fanatics, Jean-Philippe Mateta, London, Oliver Glasner, Peter Gillman, South London and Proud, Steve Parish, Wembley, Wembley Stadium
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TfL to increase central London Congestion Charge by 20%
Transport for London wants to increase the Congestion Charge for driving in central London to £18 from January 2026, it has been announced today. The capital’s transport authority is running a public consultation through the summer which includes proposals for … Continue reading
Fear on the streets – our latest podcast looks at crime and ASB
The Croydon Insider is the only news podcast for London’s most populous borough, and in our latest episode our panel discusses a range of news stories and the issues that matter to them – including difficulties encountered in reducing the … Continue reading
Posted in 2026 council elections, 2026 Croydon Mayor election, Boxpark, Business, Council Tax, Crime, Croydon Council, Croydon Greens, Croydon Insider, CYTO, Esther Sutton, Fairfield, Inside Croydon, Local media, London-wide issues, Theatre, Under The Flyover
Tagged Cllr Esther Sutton, Conservative, Council Tax, Crime, Croydon, Croydon Council, Croydon Youth Theatre Organisation, CYTO, East Croydon station, Fairfield, Green Party, Johnny Dobbyn, Lee Townsend, London Borough of Croydon, Our Croydon, PSPO, Rebecca Clarke-Irons, Street drinking, Tory, Town centre Task Force, Yusuf Osman
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77-year-old man dies on staircase in Old Coulsdon house blaze
A man in his 70s died in a house fire on Coulsdon Road in the early hours of Sunday morning. Half of the ground and first floors of the semi-detached house, located next to the gates of Keston Primary School … Continue reading
Vaughan Williams, Elgar, Chilcott: Croydon Bach Choir, Jun 21
Posted in Art, Croydon Bach Choir, Music
Tagged Croydon Bach Choir, Park Hill, Ralph Vaughan Williams, Sir Edward Elgar, St Matthew's Church
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Priest from Barbados is appointed associate Vicar of Croydon
Rev Michael Walcott, a priest working in Barbados, has been appointed by the Bishop of Southwark as the associate Vicar of Croydon, to be based at Croydon Minster. Rev Walcott is expected to move to Croydon from the Caribbean in … Continue reading
Croydon Folk and Blues Festival, Ruskin House, Sat July 19
Posted in Activities, Croydon Folk Club, Music, Ruskin House
Tagged Ruskin House, Ruskin House Blues and Folk Club
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Learn to waltz and tango at Dance Delight lessons and classes
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Posted in Activities, Business, Dance, Surrey Street
Tagged Dance Delight, Surrey Street
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Council boss denies demanding £200,000 in Palace parade row
EXCLUSIVE: Croydon’s chief exec has issued a plea to the borough’s councillors seeking their help to media manage adverse publicity over Crystal Palace’s truncated FA Cup victory parade. By STEVEN DOWNES Katherine Kerswell, Croydon Council’s chief executive, yesterday issued an … Continue reading
Posted in Croydon Council, Crystal Palace FC, Eberechi Eze, Football, Katherine Kerswell, Mayor Jason Perry, Oliver Glasner, Steve Parish
Tagged 2025 FA Cup final, Bromley Council, Conservative, Croydon, Croydon Council, Croydon Town Hall, Crystal Palace FC, Cup-winners' victory parade, Eberechi Eze, FA Cup, Katherine Kerswell, London Borough of Croydon, Mayor Jason Perry, Oliver Glasner, Open-top bus parade, Selhurst, Steve Parish, Tory
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Three months of road works around Marlpit Lane, Coulsdon
Gas infrastructure firm SGN is to begin works to replace piping in and around Marlpit Lane, Coulsdon, from Monday, May 26. The works are expected to last through to the end of August. The works will see two-way and some … Continue reading
Posted in Coulsdon, Old Coulsdon
Tagged Coulsdon, Gas pipes, Gas piping, Marlpit Lane, Old Coulsdon, Road works, SGN
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SOCRO art exhibition, Click Clock Gallery, June 2 to 27
Posted in Activities, Art, Charity, Lives Not Knives
Tagged Click Clock Gallery, Croydon, Croydon Clocktower, Lives Not Knives
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Raggio di Sole, handmade pizzas made to order, South Croydon
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Posted in Advertisement, Business
Tagged Advertisement, Raggio di Sole, South Croydon
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Mayor Perry’s warning for Croydon: ‘I’m just getting started!’
After raising your Council Tax by 27% and still needing bigger government bailouts than ever before, now the Tory Mayor wants four more years. By WALTER CRONXITE, Political Editor Be afraid, Croydon. Be very afraid. “I’m just getting started.” Those … Continue reading
Posted in 2026 council elections, 2026 Croydon Mayor election, Council Tax, Croydon Council, Fly tipping, Katherine Kerswell, Mayor Jason Perry, Refuse collection, Stabilisation Plan, Veolia
Tagged Annual Council Meeting, Ceremonial Mayor, Civic Mayor, Cllr Kola Agboola, Conservative, Council Tax, Croydon, Croydon Council, Labour, London, London Borough of Croydon, Mayor, Mayor Jason Perry, Mayor making, Richard Chatterjee, State of the Borough, Tory
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Cup-winners Palace snub Perry over Town Hall victory parade
EXCLUSIVE: For Croydon’s Tory Mayor, failing to get a chance to bask in the reflected glory of the football club is another tale of ‘what might have been’. By STEVEN DOWNES Croydon Mayor Jason Perry has been snubbed by Crystal … Continue reading
Posted in Croydon Council, Crystal Palace FC, Eberechi Eze, Football, Mayor Jason Perry, Oliver Glasner, Steve Parish
Tagged 2025 FA Cup final, Community Action in Selhurst and Surrounding Areas, Conservative, Croydon, Croydon Council, Croydon Town Hall, Crystal Palace FC, Cup-winners' victory parade, Eberechi Eze, FA Cup, London Borough of Croydon, Mayor Jason Perry, Oliver Glasner, Open-top bus parade, Selhurst, Steve Parish, Tory
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Foundation sells Old Palace site to Serenity special schools
CROYDON IN CRISIS: Old Palace girls’ school closes in July, with the owners having sold the site, but for less than the £7m guide price. EXCLUSIVE By STEVEN DOWNES The Old Palace private girls’ school site will likely become home to … Continue reading
Posted in "Hammersfield", Business, CPO, Education, Old Palace, Roisha Hughes, Schools, Unibail-Rodamco-Westfield, Whitgift Centre, Whitgift Foundation
Tagged Archbishop John Whitgift, Archbishop of Canterbury, Croydon, Knight Frank, Old Palace of John Whitgift School, Old Palace School, Roisha Hughes, Westfield, Whitgift Centre, Whitgift Foundation
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LibDem Webster holds Sutton council seat with 52% of vote
INSIDE SUTTON: Reform makes in-roads in Carshalton South and Clockhouse by-election, but not enough to overtake Tories for second place, reports BERTIE WORCESTER-PARK Sutton’s Liberal Democrats last night maintained their record of always winning by-elections in council wards where they … Continue reading
Posted in Carshalton and Wallington, Sutton and Cheam, Sutton Council
Tagged Amy Haldane, Arlene Dearlove, Carshalton South and Clockhouse, Conservative, Council by-election, Croydon Constitutionalists, Green Party, Labour, Liberal Democrats, Lisa Webster, Nigel Farage, Reform UK, Sutton, Sutton Council, Tory
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You can be confident that the council’s targets will not be met
CROYDON COMMENTARY: After council chiefs admitted that they ‘cannot deliver a balanced budget’, DAVID WICKENS says that their ‘Stabilisation Plan’ is an admission of failure After Croydon Council released its “Stabilisation Plan” last week, I had a quick look back … Continue reading
Posted in 'Future Croydon', Council Tax, Croydon Council, Improvement Board, Katherine Kerswell, Mayor Jason Perry, Stabilisation Plan, Tony McArdle
Tagged 2025 Council budget, Budget, Conservative, Council budget, Council Tax, Croydon, Croydon Council, David Wickens, Exceptional financial support, Exit Strategy, Improvement and Assurance Panel, Improvement Panel, Jane West, Katherine Kerswell, London Borough of Croydon, Mayor Jason Perry, MHCLG, Ministry of Housing Communities and Local Government, Stabilisation Plan, Tony McArdle, Tory, Unbalanced budget
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Bench removal confirms Perry’s PSPO is yet another failure
CROYDON IN CRISIS: Mayor’s ‘reign of error’ now includes removing benches from the high street in attempt to solve anti-social behaviour. Except that it hasn’t… KEN LEE reports Jason Perry, Croydon’s piss-poor Mayor, has spent much of the past week … Continue reading
Posted in "Hammersfield", Allders, Business, Croydon BID, Croydon Council, Mayor Jason Perry, North End Quarter, Unibail-Rodamco-Westfield, Whitgift Centre
Tagged Conservative, Croydon, Croydon BID, Croydon Council, Hammersfield, London Borough of Croydon, Marks and Spencer, Mayor Jason Perry, North End, Tory, Westfield, Whitgift Centre
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