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Kenley wins Lottery with £881,000 for Battle of Britain project
An ambitious project to preserve the history of Kenley’s Battle of Britain airfield and make its history available for the digital world has been granted £881,000 from the Lottery Heritage Fund. Kenley was part of London’s front-line of defence in … Continue reading
Posted in Charity, Community associations, Education, Environment, History, Kenley, Kenley Airfield Friends Group
Tagged Battle of Britain, Kenley, Kenley Airfield, RAF Kenley
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MP Philp adds his name to petition for new Coulsdon primary
Notoriously, Croydon South’s previous MP, when visited at his office by lobbying constituents, called the police to have them removed, and to pay particular close attention to the dangerous septugenarians in the party. How things change: tomorrow, the new MP … Continue reading
Posted in Cane Hill, Chris Philp MP, Coulsdon, Croydon South, Education, Planning, Schools
Tagged Boris Johnson, Cane Hill, Chris Philp MP, Conservative, Coulsdon, Croydon Council, Croydon South, Tory
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Old Haunts, MR James’s ghostly tales, Stanley Halls, Nov 11
Posted in Art, South Norwood, Stanley Halls, Stanley People's Initiative, Theatre
Tagged South Norwood, Stanley Halls
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Council spy cars continue to rake in cash with secret CCTV
Croydon Council charged more than £45,000 in driving penalties from its camera car in a single location near the Purley Way in just four months this summer. With such high returns, it is no wonder that the council appears so … Continue reading
Posted in Crime, Croydon Council, Croydon South, Environment, Parking, Waddon
Tagged Croydon, Labour, Purley Way, Waddon
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Parking problems see businesses quit Coulsdon town centre
Businesses are quitting Coulsdon, as trade has dropped off by as much as 50 per cent because of what residents and businesses are describing as the “shambles” of the traffic and parking chaos created by on-going council works and developments … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Chris Philp MP, Coulsdon, Coulsdon East, Coulsdon Town, Coulsdon West Residents' Association, Croydon Council, Croydon South, East Coulsdon Residents' Association, Old Coulsdon Residents' Association, Planning
Tagged Chris Philp MP, Conservative, Coulsdon, Croydon Council, Fairfield Halls, Hammersfield, Hammerson, Labour, London Borough of Croydon, Tory, Westfield
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South Croydon association seeks injection of fresh blood
It is all-change at the South Croydon Community Association. Three years after it was formed by residents and businesses from Croham, Fairfield and Waddon wards where they converge around that nebulous area understood as South Croydon, the SCCA is seeking … Continue reading
Entries open for Emer Casey cancer charity 10km, Nov 1
Brockwell Park is staging the Emer Casey Memorial London 10km road race on Sunday November 1, a popular local event which offers a challenging course with several climbs up what seems to be an ever-steeper hill. This race raises money … Continue reading
Posted in Athletics, Charity, Herne Hill Harriers, Sport
Tagged Brockwell Park, Cancer, Emer Casey 10k, Herne Hill Harriers
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Amnesty backs one-man show about life on death row
Amnesty Croydon and Croydon Youth Theatre Organisation are backing a one-off performance by Swithin Fry about an African-American man on death row in Ohio. The show is this Saturday, October 17 at 7pm at the Shoestring Theatre, South Norwood. Dear … Continue reading
Estate agents chip in to help St Peter’s Christmas Market
Fancy getting some money out of an estate agents’, to go to a good cause? Bairstow Eves in South Croydon has promised to pay £10 towards St Peter’s Church’s Christmas Market fund-raising for every local owner-occupier who agrees to take … Continue reading
Police called out 184 times to Thornton Heath bookmakers’
The Metropolitan Police have responded to 184 call outs for problems encountered by the staffs of the 11 high street betting shops in and around Thornton Heath in the past three years, according to figures provided to a local resident … Continue reading
Heroes and villains lay out their stories across the big screen
It’s Heroes, and heroines, and villains at the David Lean Cinema in November, as shown in the month’s programme, just released. There’s Lance Armstrong, finally revealed as a drug-taking cheat rather than the cycling hero he and his backers would … Continue reading
Lambeth approves ‘omni-shambles’ libraries closure plan
How democracy works in south London, Part 94… STEP 1: Lambeth’s “co-operative” council issues a consultation, cleverly entitled Vision 2020 (geddit?), outlining how the Labour-run Town Halls wants to implement the government’s austerity agenda by making deep cuts to its … Continue reading
58-year-old Doe dons his boots again in Warlingham win
RUGBY ROUND-UP: If you think Wales or Ireland’s Rugby World Cup squads have it bad with injuries, then spare a thought for local club Warlingham, who rocked up for their latest London 2SW fixture at Basingstoke missing pretty much an … Continue reading
Women’s Equality Party announces Croydon launch for Oct 24
The Women’s Equality Party, the political movement founded by broadcaster and author Sandi Toksvig earlier this year, is staging its Croydon branch launch on October 24. Cleverly adopting the hashtag #WE and co-ordinating its activities around key centenaries of the … Continue reading
Posted in Activities, Gillian Manly, South Norwood
Tagged Gillian Manly, Sandi Toksvig, Women's Equality Party
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Shadow chancellor McDonnell to speak at Croydon Assembly
John McDonnell and Andrew Fisher, two key players within Jeremy Corbyn’s Labour leadership team, are among the invited speakers at the third Croydon Assembly, to be staged at Ruskin House on November 7. Entitled “Fighting the Tories – a Manifesto … Continue reading
Posted in Andrew Fisher, Business, Housing, Planning, Property
Tagged Andrew Fisher, Jeremy Corbyn, John McDonnell, trade unions
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Reliable restaurant delivers on the right side of tracks
With nothing much on at the Fairfield Halls, BELLA BARTOCK took her reviewing skills to another form of theatre, and a night out in Coulsdon’s newest restaurant You know what you’re getting with PizzaExpress. The bright interior, the 1960s-style geometric … Continue reading
Posted in Activities, Coulsdon, PizzaExpress Coulsdon, Restaurants
Tagged Coulsdon, PizzaExpress
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This House of Windsor has far from palatial accommodation
Such is the scale of the homelessness crisis in Croydon that the Labour-run council – which last month blocked future “permitted developments” of offices being converted into flats – is to utilise a third ex-office block to provide short-term accommodation. … Continue reading
Posted in Alison Butler, Business, Croydon Council, Housing, Norbury, Planning
Tagged Alison Butler, Croydon Council, Croydon North, Labour, landlords, London Borough of Croydon, Norbury, Windsor House
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Coulsdon commuters offered reduced services by Southern
When the Tannoy system at Coulsdon Town station next announces “Mind The Gap”, they won’t be referring to the distance between platform and train carriage, but the length of time until the next timetabled service on the line. The residents … Continue reading
Pope Head: Secret Life of Francis Bacon, Spread Eagle, Oct 16
Posted in Art, Spread Eagle Theatre, Theatre
Tagged Francis Bacon, Pope Head, Spread Eagle Theatre
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Cameron’s kicked Croydon’s homeless in the teeth, says Butler
David Cameron’s announcement this week that developers will no longer have to provide “affordable” homes (in the sense that the homes are marginally less overpriced than what the speculators might wish) is “another nail in the coffin for social housing”, … Continue reading
Posted in Alison Butler, Business, Croydon Central, Croydon Council, Housing, London-wide issues, Mayor of London, Planning, Property, Thornton Heath
Tagged Alison Butler, Concord House, Conservative, Croydon Council, Croydon North, Labour, London Borough of Croydon, Sycamore House, Thornton Heath, Tory
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