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Oval Primary pupils win art competition for Red Nose Day
Three pupils from Oval Primary have won a regional competition with Amazon and Comic Relief to have their art displayed at their local Amazon Fresh store for Red Nose Day. The children’s work was judged from more than 200 entries … Continue reading
Posted in Addiscombe West, Art, Business, Charity, Oval Primary, Schools
Tagged Addiscombe, Amazon, Amazon Fresh, Ark Oval Primary, Comic Relief, Oval Primary, Red Nose Day, Ruskin Square
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Long-closed Earl of Eldon pub is replaced by Portuguese deli
A long-boarded-up site on Brighton Road in South Croydon has opened for business this week – as Sabores da Terra, a “traditional Portuguese coffee shop and deli”. The Earl of Eldon pub, once a Greene King boozer, closed in 2018, … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Property, Pubs, South Croydon
Tagged Brighton Road, Earl of Eldon, Sabores da Terra, South Croydon
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Now developers peddle padel possibilities at Cancer Hub site
Sutton could get its first public padel courts before Croydon following the announcement from the London Cancer Hub at Belmont. Social Sports Society, the padel operator behind ventures like Wembley Park Padel, has resubmitted a planning application for a change … Continue reading
Councillor slams ‘shameful and deceitful’ waste figures
DODGY LEAFLETS: Local elections are still more than a year away, but the colourful flyers with carefully crafted weasel words are already beginning to appear on residents’ doormats. Not all are overtly from political parties, but as BELLE MONT reports, … Continue reading
Posted in 2026 council elections, Business, Croydon Council, Environment, Kingston, Merton, Nick Mattey, Refuse collection, Suez waste treatment plant, Sutton Council, Veolia, Waste incinerator
Tagged Beddington, Beddington incinerator, Beddington Lane incinerator, Croydon, Croydon Council, Kingston, Kingston Council, Liberal Democrats, Merton, Merton Council, Nick Mattey, South London Waste Partnership, Sutton, Sutton Council, Tim Martin, Veolia, Viridor, Waste recycling
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South Norwood has all the signs of traffic chaos for next month
By PETER GILLMAN South Norwood is soon to be hit with traffic chaos again – but neither Croydon Council nor the alternative possible culprits, Thames Water, have been able to provide more information about precisely which roads they intend to … Continue reading
Network Rail’s compromise too far over #BridgeToNowhere
Angry residents are demanding that Network Rail delivers on its promises and drop a hare-brained scheme which would compromise the £22m piece of infrastructure at East Croydon Station permanently. By JEREMY CLACKSON, transport correspondent Network Rail has admitted that it … Continue reading
Posted in Addiscombe West, Business, Commuting, Croydon Council, East Croydon, Jerry Fitzpatrick, Mayor Jason Perry, Planning, Transport
Tagged #BridgeToNowhere, Addiscombe West, Bridge to Nowhere, Cherry Orchard Road, Croydon, Dingwall Road, East Croydon station, London, Mayor Jason Perry, Network Rail
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When people talk, things happen and they get things done
CROYDON COMMENTARY: Businessman TIM WATES believes that even a small shift in engagement with each other can make a big difference to the borough’s future Across Croydon, many community groups, volunteers and businesses are rolling up their sleeves to make … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Charity, Community associations, Croydon Commitment, Crystal Palace FC, Education, Knife crime, Lives Not Knives, Serious About Youth, Tim Wates, Wates Group
Tagged Croydon, Croydon College, Croydon Voluntary Action, Crystal Palace FC, Fairfield Halls, Lives Not Knives, Palace for Life Foundation, Serious About Youth, Tim Wates, Wates, Wates Group
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Coulsdon photo store’s inspired presents for Mothering Sunday
A Coulsdon photo business owner has come up with a set of alternative, and inspired, ideas for presents for your mums this Mothering Sunday. Flowers and chocolates are safe options, but neither has the enduring impact of a personalised gift … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Coulsdon
Tagged Coulsdon, Fujifilm, Mother's Day, Mothering Sunday, Oscar Palmieri, The Photo Shop
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Purley care home holds party for couple’s 70th anniversary
“We never imagined we’d reach this milestone, but here we are, still holding hands and making memories,” say Roger and Audrey Adcock after celebrating their 70th wedding anniversary at Purley Gardens Care Home, on Russell Hill Road. For the Adcocks, … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Care Homes, Purley
Tagged Avery Healthcare, Purley, Purley Gardens Care Home, Roger and Audrey Adcock
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Council invests £16m in companies ‘complicit in war crimes’
A community group is planning a protest outside the Town Hall tomorrow morning, to bring further attention to how Croydon Labour is backing the Tories over holding investments in companies that have been arming the Israeli military during its genocidal … Continue reading
Wandle Forum in legal challenge to council over nature reserve
INSIDE SUTTON: If the council won’t take action against big business for failing to honour its planning commitments, then a coalition of around 150 community groups – backed up by a major legal firm – will. By ROSE HILL The … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Community associations, Environment, London-wide issues, Sutton Council, Waste incinerator, Wildlife
Tagged Beddington, Beddington Farmlands, Beddington Farmlands Nature Reserve, Beddington incinerator, Housing environment and neighbourhoods committee, Leigh Day solicitors, Liberal Democrats, London, Sutton, Sutton Council, Valencia, Valencia Waste Management, Viridor, Wandle Valley Forum
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Egg-stra offer for dog owners at Woodcote Green garden centre
The Dobbies garden centre at Woodcote Green is staging a Hopping Hounds event, where customers’ dogs get to sniff out an Easter egg trail around the store before receiving a toy and money-off vouchers for the store and its restaurant. … Continue reading
Pub under the Flyover gets a shock as manager opts to move
Locals at the back-street, town centre pub, the Royal Standard, have been sent reeling, and not by an especially strong barrel of Harvey’s, but by the news that the landlord and her team are leaving the pub under the Croydon … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Fairfield, Property, Pubs, South Croydon
Tagged Admiral Taverns, Croydon Flyover, Fuller's, Fullers Brewery, London, South Croydon, The Royal Standard
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Council planning chief Cheesbrough set to take ‘career break’
EXCLUSIVE: After nearly a decade in charge of Croydon’s planning department, one of Jo Negrini’s closest colleagues is to leave Fisher’s Folly. By our Town Hall correspondent, KEN LEE Heather Cheesbrough, Croydon Council’s “director of planning and sustainable regeneration” (try … Continue reading
Posted in "Hammersfield", Brick by Brick, Business, CPO, Croydon Council, Heather Cheesbrough, Jo Negrini, Planning, Unibail-Rodamco-Westfield, Whitgift Centre
Tagged Brick by Brick, Conservative, Croydon, Croydon Council, Fairfield Halls, Heather Cheesbrough, Jo Negrini, London, London Borough of Croydon, Mayor Jason Perry, Planning, Tory, Westfield, Whitgift Centre
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500 flats in £250m scheme proposed opposite Sutton Station
Developers have submitted a £250million proposal to build 507 flats on a site opposite Sutton railway centre, the latest tower block for the town centre. The scheme, which has been dubbed “Press Works”, will retain and repurpose a 19-storey office … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Housing, Sutton Council
Tagged Amro Partners, Sutton, Sutton Station, The Print Works
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Hassan Sentamu given life sentence for Elianne Andam murder
Grieving parents decry their daughter’s murderer for his ‘senseless, monstrous and evil’ actions The Old Bailey judge in the murder case of Elianne Andam told the court at today’s sentencing hearing that the mural painted on Wellesley Road in memory … Continue reading
Addiscombe firm helps young footballers in their title bid
A builders merchant based in Addiscombe is sponsoring a grassroots football team as part of its commitment to supporting the local community. Harris and Bailey, based in Hastings Road, has teamed up with Warlingham Football Club to provide its U13s … Continue reading
Posted in Addiscombe East, Business
Tagged Addiscombe, Harris and Bailey, Warlingham, Warlingham FC
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Opportunity knocks as Negrini does a MIPIM turn for London
Watch out London. The capital city’s Mayor, Sir Sadiq Khan, has made his first visit to MIPIM, the global property developers conference staged each spring in Cannes, with a notorious reputation in the past as a “booze and hookers fest”. … Continue reading
Posted in "Hammersfield", Brick by Brick, Business, Croydon BID, Heather Cheesbrough, Housing, Jo Negrini, Jules Pipe, London-wide issues, Mayor of London, Planning, Sadiq Khan, TfL, Tom Copley, Transport, Unibail-Rodamco-Westfield, Whitgift Centre
Tagged Booze and hooker fest, Brick by Brick, Cannes, Croydon, Homes for Lambeth, Jo Negrini, Labour, Lambeth, Mayor, MIPIM, Opportunity London
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Halfords gears up to take on rival business’s redundant staff
Halfords has extended an offer of job interviews to all members of staff affected by the closure of the ATS Euromaster branches in Croydon, Beckenham, Morden and Sydenham. This follows ATS Euromaster’s announcement last month that 86 of its service … Continue reading
Posted in Business
Tagged ATS Euromaster, Coulsdon, Croydon, Halfords, Thornton Heath
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The Masterplan has just one aim, to make money for Westfield
CROYDON COMMENTARY: The Town Hall planners handing over Masterplan responsibilities for the town centre to Westfield, as Inside Croydon reported this week, has left reader CARL LUCAS angry that our council will be missing a significant opportunity for a sustainable … Continue reading
Posted in "Hammersfield", Business, Centrale, Croydon Council, Environment, Housing, Mayor Jason Perry, Michael Neal, Nicola Townsend, North End Quarter, Planning, Property, Unibail-Rodamco-Westfield, Whitgift Centre
Tagged Carl Lucas, Croydon, Croydon Council, East Croydon station, Hammersfield, London Borough of Croydon, Michael Neal, NEQ, Nicola Townsend, North End Quarter, Tory, Unibail Rodamco Westfield, URW, Westfield, Whitgift Centre
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Southern apprenticeship helped Croydon mum get on track
“Becoming a train driver is a real privilege and thanks to Southern and Career Returners, I get to live my dream every day.” After becoming a mother for the first time, West Croydon resident Elba Lovelace-Francis wanted to take her … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Transport, West Croydon
Tagged Career Returners, Croydon, Elba Lovelace-Francis, international womens day, Southern Rail, West Croydon
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Carers’ Centre staff now face redundancy under new provider
CROYDON IN CRISIS: Valued workers based in George Street look set to pay with their jobs so that Mayor Perry can dodge criticism. EXCLUSIVE by STEVEN DOWNES Just days after Mayor Jason Perry denied he was performing a U-turn when … Continue reading
Posted in Adult Social Care, Business, Carers First, Charity, Croydon Council, Mayor Jason Perry, Whitgift Foundation
Tagged Carers Centre, Carers First, Carers' assessement service, Conservative, Croydon, Croydon Carers Centre, Croydon Council, George Street, Katherine Kerswell, Mayor Jason Perry, Tory, Whitgift Foundation
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3,000 children enjoy a special World Book Day at Waterstones
More than 2,000 primary-aged pupils have been inspired and excited at a book shop in the Whitgift Centre this week, all part of activities around World Book Day. The children, aged from four to 11, were visiting Waterstones to hear … Continue reading
