Category Archives: Humayun Kabir

Micro-flat developers have helped to fund Labour council

Posted on July 6, 2019 by

Our housing correspondent, BARRATT HOLMES, on how a pair of developers investigated for making millions from housing benefits, paid as rents on under-sized flats, have also been generous donors or sponsors of council-run events or to Labour councillors, including Paul … Continue reading →

Posted in Addiscombe West, Alison Butler, Business, Croydon Council, Housing, Humayun Kabir, London-wide issues, Mayor of London, Paul Scott, Planning, Sadiq Khan, Sean Fitzsimons, Tony Newman | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | 3 Comments

Councillors have ‘short attention spans’ declares new Mayor

Posted on May 21, 2019 by

Town Hall reporter KEN LEE reports from last night’s business-lite council meeting, safe in the knowledge that there’s just two further full councils and a Christmas get-together to be held in 2019 Croydon councillors, having only recently voted themselves a … Continue reading →

Posted in Bensham Manor, Croydon Council, Humayun Kabir, Jo Negrini, Tony Newman | Tagged , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

Kabir and Henson to board the mayoral gravy train in 2019

Posted on December 27, 2018 by

The appointment of Mayor of Croydon may well be a case of ‘Buggin’s Turn’ among back bench councillors, but with the selections made for 2019, at least there’s the prospect of wonderfully well-organised raffles, as Town Hall reporter KEN LEE … Continue reading →

Posted in Addiscombe East, Gareth Streeter, Humayun Kabir, Maddie Henson, Tony Newman | Tagged , , , , , , , | 7 Comments

Minster gets new vicar but Negrini and Newman miss ceremony

Posted on September 9, 2018 by

The congregation at Croydon Minster, Croydon’s parish church for more than a century, has a new vicar this Sunday, following a formal service this week. Canon Andrew Bishop was named as the new priest-in-charge at the Minster by the Diocese … Continue reading →

Posted in Bishop of Croydon, Canon Andrew Bishop, Canon Colin Boswell, Charity, Church and religions, Croydon Minster, Croydon Nightwatch, Humayun Kabir | Tagged , , , , , , | 5 Comments

‘Invisible’ Selva suffers knock-out blow from Muhammad Ali

Posted on November 3, 2017 by

Seconds out! Round four… Political editor WALTER CRONXITE on the latest twists in Labour’s selection saga Alison Butler, the deputy leader of the Labour group on Croydon Council, survived a re-selection scare when members in Bensham Manor this week duly … Continue reading →

Posted in Alison Butler, Bensham Manor, Broad Green, Humayun Kabir, Jamie Audsley, Karen Jewitt, Manju Shahul Hameed, Matthew Kyeremeh, Mike Selva, Muhammad Ali, Pat Clouder, Stuart Collins, Thornton Heath | Tagged , , , , , , , | 1 Comment

Labour deputy leader Butler is under threat of de-selection

Posted on October 27, 2017 by

Croydon Labour’s long-delayed local election candidate selection process is beginning to look like a cross between House of Cards and Game of Thrones, as WALTER CRONXITE reports Alison Butler, the all-powerful deputy leader of the Labour group on Croydon Council, … Continue reading →

Posted in 2018 council elections, Addiscombe East, Alison Butler, Andrew Pelling, Andrew Rendle, Bensham Manor, Broad Green, Croydon Council, Crystal Palace and Upper Norwood, Humayun Kabir, Jamie Audsley, Jane Avis, John Wentworth, Karen Jewitt, Louisa Woodley, Maggie Mansell, Manju Shahul Hameed, Mike Selva, New Addington, Norbury, Oliver Lewis, Shafi Khan, Sherwan Chowdhury, South Norwood, Stuart Collins, Thornton Heath, Tony Newman, Waddon | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , | 1 Comment