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Live and Unplugged at the Bandstand, Wandle Park, Jul 9
Posted in Music, Wandle Park
Tagged Broad Green, Friends of Wandle Park, Waddon, Wandle Park
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Paths of Separations author to meet Page Turners club
GUY CLAPPERTON on the next meeting of the South Norwood book club, Page Turners, when the book’s author will be at the event … and that was another fine meeting with numbers up a bit from last time. The consensus … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Restaurants, South Norwood
Tagged Page Turners, South Norwood, Yeha Noha
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Drawing Grangewood Park, South Norwood, Jul 10
Posted in Art, Croydon parks, South Norwood
Tagged Friends of Grangewood Park, Grangewood Park, South Norwood
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Batty looking to his batsmen to keep Surrey in the running
HOOK SHOT: Surrey’s struggles in the County Championship continue, but their skipper tells MARCUS HOOK that a win over Nottinghamshire shows a change in form With the cricket season now at its halfway stage, Gareth Batty is the first to … Continue reading
Posted in Cricket, Marcus Hook, Sport, Surrey CCC
Tagged Gareth Batty, Marcus Hook, Surrey CCC, Surrey County Cricket Club
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Park Hill Schools’ Summer Fair, Stanhope Road, Jul 9
Posted in Activities, Charity, Community associations, Park Hill Junior, Schools
Tagged Park Hill, Park Hill Junior School
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100 years on from the start of the Somme: We remember them
Posted in Croydon Male Voice Choir, History, Music
Tagged Battle of the Somme, Croydon Male Voice Choir, First World War, World War I
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Council’s £180,000 chief executive job goes to insider Negrini
Croydon’s supposedly Labour-controlled council has, for the second time in a couple of years, managed to appoint an insider to its most senior job, as Tony Newman, the council leader, announced tonight that Jo Negrini has landed the £180,000 chief … Continue reading
White calls for apology after ‘grossly unfair’ Labour suspension
David White, the erstwhile secretary of the Croydon Central Constituency Labour Party who has had his membership suspended for two months without being informed what offence he is alleged to have committed nor who are his accusers, has written to … Continue reading
Posted in Croydon Central, David White
Tagged Croydon, Croydon Central, David White, Labour, London
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Police warn minorities to ‘stay vigilant’ against hate crimes
Muslims and other minority groups in Croydon have been warned by the police to “stay vigilant” and report hate crime following a spike of racist attacks after the Leave result in last week’s EU Referendum. The Muslim Association of Croydon … Continue reading
Croydon, June 2016: ‘Farage Lies’ and the signs of our times
We live in interesting times. One week on from what someone like Roosevelt might have described as “the Referendum that will go down in infamy”, and the graffiti artists who have been daubing the hoarding around what was once Taberner … Continue reading
Posted in 2016 EU referendum, Business, Croydon Council, Taberner House
Tagged Farage Lies, grafitti, Grey Label, Taberner House
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Waddon school pupils get chance to eat as they learn
Croydon’s new Mayor tended to his roots in more ways than one when he came to open St Giles’s School’s edible garden today. Councillor Wayne Trakas-Lawlor got in some good spade work to bed down a tree planted to mark … Continue reading
Posted in Andrew Pelling, Education, Environment, Gardening, Schools, South Norwood, St Giles' School, Waddon, Wayne Lawlor
Tagged South Norwood, Waddon, Wayne Trakas-Lawlor
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Poets Anonymous, Wandle Park bandstand, Jul 2
Posted in Broad Green, Friends of Wandle Park, Poetry, Waddon, Wandle Park
Tagged Poets Anonymous, Wandle Park
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Croydon’s industrial history walk, Wandle Park, Jul 3
Posted in Broad Green, Business, Friends of Wandle Park, History, Purley Way, Waddon, Walks, Wandle Park
Tagged Broad Green, Purley Way, Waddon, Walks, Wandle Park
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Environment campaigners take protest to Viridor shareholders
The Stop the South London Incinerator Campaign is staging a demonstration in Beddington Lane tomorrow evening, June 29. Protestors will be gathering on the public footpaths outside the entrance to the Viridor incinerator site before a photo-call at 7pm. The … Continue reading
Former Palace player Southgate tipped for England job
REG E DWIGHT, our man on the terraces with the star-shaped glasses and a copy of When Saturday Comes tucked under his arm, reports on the consequences of our exit from Europe. Plus the latest Selhurst Park transfer news, including … Continue reading
Posted in Crystal Palace FC, Football, Roy Hodgson
Tagged Alan Pardew, Crystal Palace, Gareth Southgate, Selhurst Park
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Bookings open now for summer holiday Bikeability courses
Posted in Activities, Coulsdon, Croydon Cycling Campaign, Cycling, Transport
Tagged Addiscombe West, Coulsdon, Cycling
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Waterlogged park forces organisers to cancel village fair
The very wet spring and early summer has claimed a casualty in Old Coulsdon, where this Saturday’s Village Fair has had to be postponed because Grange Park is waterlogged. The event is organised by The Rotary Club of Coulsdon Manor … Continue reading
MP Reed never consulted us on Corbyn, say Labour members
Steve Reed OBE, the Progress MP for Lambeth South/Croydon North [delete to taste] waited until this morning before joining the exodus of right wingers from the Labour Party’s shadow cabinet, issuing a letter announcing that he is resigning from his … Continue reading
Posted in Catriona Ogilvy, Croydon North, Steve Reed MP
Tagged Croydon North, Jeremy Corbyn, Labour, Steve Reed OBE
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Purley paddler’s 400-mile journey highlights plastic pollution
Lizzie Carr, the Purley woman backed by the Ordnance Survey to travel the length of England using a paddle board on the country’s waterways, has completed her epic journey, and made some very worrying discoveries. Inside Croydon was the first … Continue reading
Posted in Charity, Environment, Health, Purley
Tagged Lizzie Carr, Ordnance Survey, Purley
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Last Mum2Mum Market sale of summer, Bingham Road, Jul 16
What the Mum2Mum Market organisers are calling “The Last Sale of Summer” is being held in Addiscombe on July 16. Staged at Our Lady’s Annunciation Church, 147 Bingham Road, CR0 7EN, from 10am to noon, at this sales event, run … Continue reading
Posted in Addiscombe West, Community associations
Tagged Addiscombe West, Mum2Mums Market
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Mitre Players’ family affair promises to go like clockwork
Megan Brown hopes everything goes like clockwork when she steps on stage for the Mitre Players’ new production next month. Brown plays Constance, the titular character in The Clockmaker’s Daughter, which the amdram group will perform in the open-air Courtyard … Continue reading
