Category Archives: Croydon North

Soweto Kinch gives concert to help Wadsworth campaign

Posted on April 18, 2019 by

Multi-award-winning musician Soweto Kinch is doing a fundraising gig on Saturday at top London music studios for a Croydon black activist expelled from the Labour Party. Anti-racism campaigner Marc Wadsworth has been doing a national speaking tour in a campaign … Continue reading →

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Labour names Euro candidates as City Hall selection undecided

Posted on April 18, 2019 by

Our political editor, WALTER CRONXITE, reports on the glacial progress in Labour choosing its candidates for London elections which are now barely 12 months away The Labour Party thought they had sorted a major selection dilemma last night when they … Continue reading →

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MPs warn Palace of ‘racism and violence’ of Lads Alliance

Posted on April 4, 2019 by

In an extraordinary demonstration of cross-party action (for Croydon, at any rate), all three of the borough’s MPs, plus the council leader and councillors, have written to Crystal Palace Football Club to ask them to distance themselves publicly from the … Continue reading →

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Prime Minister agrees to quit – How your MP voted on Brexit

Posted on March 28, 2019 by

Political editor WALTER CRONXITE on how jobless figures in Croydon might increase by three, but perhaps not for a little time yet So, has Brexit become Texit? After last night’s performance at Westminster’s Palace of Varieties, where Theresa May, the … Continue reading →

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Sleep Out raises £45,000, but rough sleepers were not welcome

Posted on March 26, 2019 by

STEVEN DOWNES spent Sunday night speaking to the rough sleepers in the town centre who did not have a roof over the heads It is 10.45pm, and a cold, wintry wind whips along George Street as a handful of people … Continue reading →

Posted in Alison Butler, Boxpark, Brick by Brick, Business, Charity, Croydon BID, Croydon Council, Croydon Nightwatch, Evolve, Jad Adams, Sarah Jones MP, Steve Reed MP | Tagged , , , , , , , , , | 5 Comments

Politicians’ posturing and positioning as Brexit chaos reigns

Posted on March 25, 2019 by

Political editor WALTER CRONXITE tracks the activities of Croydon’s Town Hall and Westminster elites over a weekend where the fate of the nation appeared ever more precarious, in some part thanks to the ill-judged interventions of sometime MP Gavin Barwell … Continue reading →

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£30,000 raised for homelessness ahead of Croydon Sleep Out

Posted on March 21, 2019 by

Croydon’s Labour MPs will be roughing it on Sunday night, as Steve Reed OBE and Sarah Jones take part in Croydon’s first Sleep Out. They will be joined by councillor Alison Butler, as they give up their beds for the … Continue reading →

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