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Bingo! Plus live music, quiz nights, darts at Surrey Cricketers
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Posted in Advertisement, Advertisement features, Business, Darts, Fairfield, Music, Pubs, Sport
Tagged Bingo, Croydon, Darts, Fairfield, Music, The Surrey Cricketers
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Foam factory job cuts will have ‘significant’ impact on Croydon
With 100 skilled manufacturing jobs under threat, while failed Mayor Jason Perry refuses to act, other councillors have stepped in to persuade the Nike supplier Zotefoams to reconsider its plan to move operations to Vietnam Croydon’s Green Party councillors have … Continue reading
Posted in Broad Green, Business, Croydon Greens, Paul Ainscough, Ria Patel, Zotefoams
Tagged Broad Green, Cllr Paul Ainscough, Cllr Ria Patel, Croydon, Croydon Council, Eliud Kipchoge, GMB, GMB Union, Green Party, Jakob Ingebrigtsen, Keely Hodgkinson, London Borough of Croydon, Mitcham Road, Vietnam, Zotefoams
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Bingo! Plus live music, quiz nights, darts at Surrey Cricketers
C O M M U N I T Y A D V E R T I S E M E N T Click here for all events at the Surrey Cricketers, 23 West St, CR0 1DJ
Posted in Advertisement, Advertisement features, Business, Darts, Fairfield, Music, Pubs, Sport
Tagged Bingo, Croydon, Darts, Fairfield, Music, The Surrey Cricketers
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Bingo! Plus live music, quiz nights, darts at Surrey Cricketers
C O M M U N I T Y A D V E R T I S E M E N T Click here for all events at the Surrey Cricketers, 23 West St, CR0 1DJ
Posted in Advertisement, Advertisement features, Business, Darts, Fairfield, Music, Pubs, Sport
Tagged Bingo, Croydon, Darts, Fairfield, Music, The Surrey Cricketers
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Got a fryer going cheap? Croydon’s best chippie on the brink
While Ponte Nuovo, one of Croydon’s top-end Italian restaurants, undergoes an expensive refurb, Castellas Fish and Chips, a fixture on Selsdon Road for 60 years, urgently needs replacement parts Croydon’s so-called “Restaurant Quarter” could be on the brink of suffering … Continue reading
Giant PubCo seeking new management for Slug & Lettuce site
The steady hollowing out of what was once Croydon’s thriving town centre will take another step on September 12 when the Slug and Lettuce on Park Street brings down the shutters after 13 years. The current tenants running the venue, … Continue reading
‘Crap’ council is caught taping over the cracks of listed building
Croydon Council has been accused of failing to protect and preserve one of the town centre’s heritage buildings, the Grade II-listed Segas House, on the corner of Katharine Street and Wellesley Road. The office building was given listed status in … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Business, Croydon Council, Croydon School of Art, Fairfield, Mayor Jason Perry, Nestle Tower, Planning, Ria Patel, Segas House, St George's Walk
Tagged Cllr Ria Patel, Conservative, Croydon, Croydon Council, Electric House, Fairfield, Fairfield ward, Grade II, Green Party, London Borough of Croydon, Mayor Jason Perry, Segas House, Tory, Town Centre
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Perry’s plan: More borrowing. More debt. And £58m more cuts
CROYDON IN CRISIS: Reports sneaked out ahead of next Wednesday’s council cabinet meeting talk of ‘difficult decisions’, after residents have already suffered six years of the consequences of ‘difficult decisions’. By STEVEN DOWNES Less than six months since he pushed … Continue reading
Posted in 'Future Croydon', Adult Social Care, Children's Services, Claire Bonham, Commissioners, Conrad Hall, Council Tax, Croydon Council, Elaine Jackson, Jo Negrini, Katherine Kerswell, Mayor Jason Perry, Paul Ainscough, SEND, Stabilisation Plan, Stuart King
Tagged Cllr Claire Bonham, Cllr Paul Ainscough, Cllr Stuart King, Conrad Hall, Conservative, Council debt, Croydon, Croydon Council, EFS, Exceptional financial support, HM Treasury, Jo Negrini, Katherine Kerswell, Labour, Liberal Democrats, London Borough of Croydon, Mayor Jason Perry, MHCLG, Ministry of Housing Communities and Local Government, Section 114 Notice, The Green Party, Tory
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How Labour-Tory marriage of convenience is failing Croydon
CROYDON COMMENTARY: With the Green Party deliberately excluded from the planning committee by a Labour-Tory pact at the Town Hall, new councillor PAUL AINSCOUGH, pictured left, says that the borough’s two largest parties are still not listening to the public … Continue reading
Posted in Croydon Council, Croydon Greens, Fairfield, Paul Ainscough, Planning
Tagged Cllr Paul Ainscough, Conservative, Croydon, Croydon Council, Fairfield, Green Party, Labour, Planning Committee, Tory
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Labour’s secret deal with Tories to block Greens on planning
EXCLUSIVE: Once the election results were in last month, Croydon’s Labour leader agreed what’s been called ‘a shabby, short-sighted stitch-up’ to keep Green councillors away from important planning decisions – while also boosting allowances paid to their party. By STEVEN … Continue reading
Posted in 2026 council elections, Croydon Council, Crystal Palace and Upper Norwood, Jason Cummings, Mark Adderley, Mayor Jason Perry, Paul Ainscough, Planning, Rowenna Davis, Steve Reed MP, Streatham and Croydon North, Stuart King
Tagged Cllr Jason Cummings, Cllr Paul Ainscough, Cllr Rowenna Davis, Cllr Stuart King, Conservative, Croydon, Croydon Council, Green Party, Labour, Liberal Democrats, London Borough of Croydon, Mayor Jason Perry, Reform Ltd, Reform UK, Tory
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Police chief dragged into Surrey Street trader’s latest vendetta
Repeated allegations posted across social media platforms by Jose Joseph could yet be the subject of legal action, as Met officer requires the stall-holder to alter one recent, misleading message. EXCLUSIVE by STEVEN DOWNES Jose Joseph, the eccentric Surrey Street … Continue reading
Posted in 2026 Croydon Mayor election, Business, Croydon Business Association, Jose Joseph, Surrey Street
Tagged asylum seeker, CBA, Croydon, Croydon Business Association, Croydon Council, Home Office, immigration, Jose Joseph, Labour, London Borough of Croydon, Mayor, Reform Ltd, Reform UK, Surrey Street, Surrey Street Market
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Perry’s anti-democratic council has created constitution crisis
For the first time since it was created in 1965, Croydon Council has councillors from five political parties. WALTER CRONXITE, Political Editor, looks at whether they will make any difference – or even be allowed to try While other councils … Continue reading
Posted in 2026 council elections, 2026 Croydon Mayor election, Adam Kellett, Claire Bonham, Croydon Council, Crystal Palace and Upper Norwood, Esther Sutton, Fairfield, Gill Hickson, Mark Adderley, New Addington South, Old Coulsdon, Paul Ainscough, Ria Patel, Scott Holman
Tagged 2026 council elections, 2026 Croydon mayoral election, 2026 local elections, Adam Kellett, Cllr Claire Bonham, Cllr Esther Sutton, Cllr Gill Hickson, Cllr Scott Holman, Conservative, Council constitution, Croydon, Croydon Council, Crystal Palace and Upper Norwood, Fairfield, Green Party, Labour, Liberal Democrats, London Borough of Croydon, Mark Adderley, Mayor Jason Perry, New Addington South, Old Coulsdon, Reform Ltd, Reform UK, Ria Patel, The Green Party, Tory
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Part-time Perry’s Leipzig dilemma as Mayor faces fixture clash
EXCLUSIVE: ‘Life-long’ Palace fan is going to have to do some work to earn his £86,000 council salary, as opposition parties refuse to change date of Town Hall’s annual meeting on the night that the Eagles will be making history … Continue reading
Posted in Claire Bonham, Croydon Council, Crystal Palace FC, Football, Mayor Jason Perry, Ria Patel, Stuart King
Tagged Cllr Claire Bonham, Cllr Ria Patel, Cllr Stuart King, Conservative, Croydon, Croydon Council, Crystal Palace, Crystal Palace FC, Green Party, Labour, Leipzig, Liberal Democrats, London Borough of Croydon, Mayor Jason Perry, Rayo Vallecano, Tory, UEFA, UEFA Conference League
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Perry’s goons abandon threats against George Street homeless
Council security contractors may have failed to follow the law over their ‘thuggery’ and ‘bullying’ of what they called an ‘encampment’ in the town centre. By STEVEN DOWNES and KEN TOWL Threats of enforcement action against what the council described … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Community associations, Croydon BID, Croydon Council, Fairfield, Mayor Jason Perry, North End Quarter, Whitgift Foundation
Tagged Centrale, Community Patrol, Community Protection Notice, Conservative, Croydon, Croydon BID, Croydon Council, London Borough of Croydon, Mayor Jason Perry, Parkguard, Tory, Whitgift Almshouses, Whitgift Foundation
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King faces possible leadership challenge after election defeats
Our Town Hall reporter KEN LEE on the immediate fall-out from Labour’s Rowenna Davis failing to become Mayor of Croydon There will be a Labour Party leadership contest this week – but in Katharine Street, rather than Downing Street. While … Continue reading
Posted in 2026 council elections, 2026 Croydon Mayor election, Amy Foster, Callton Young, Chris Clark, Chrishni Reshekaron, Christopher Herman, Janet Campbell, John Wentworth, Manju Shahul Hameed, Rowenna Davis, Stuart King
Tagged Carole Bonner, Cllr Amy Foster, Cllr Janet Campbell, Cllr John Wentworth, Cllr Rowenna Davis, Cllr Stuart King, Croydon, Croydon Council, Croydon East, Crystal Palace, Crystal Palace and Upper Norwood, Janet Campbell, Joel Bodmer, Labour, Labour National Executive Council, Labour NEC, London, Mayor Jason Perry, Steve Reed OBE, Tony Newman
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Labour dumps their hard-working Thornton Heath councillor
THE TOSS-CARS 2026, Part 2: Inside Croydon reveals the borough’s hardest-working councillors. PLUS: Which Town Hall figure managed just 12 reports to the council’s smartphone app all year? The Labour Party goes in to Thursday’s local elections with the hardest-working … Continue reading
Posted in 2026 council elections, Callton Young, Chris Clark, Croydon Council, Janet Campbell, Karen Jewitt, Lynne Hale, Mayor Jason Perry, Rowenna Davis, Samir Dwesar, Simon Fox, Stuart King, Thornton Heath, Tony Newman, West Thornton
Tagged Cllr Karen Jewitt, Cllr Rowenna Davis, Cllr Stuart King, Conservative, Councillor allowances, Croydon, Croydon Council, Labour, London Borough of Croydon, Lynne Hale, Mayor Jason Perry, Samir Dwesar, Tory, Toss-cars
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Mayor Perry now forced into another U-turn over road fines
One month after Inside Croydon reported how a yellow box trap outside East Croydon Station was generating hundreds of thousands of pounds in unfair fines, the council has – probably reluctantly – painted over the offending road markings. JEREMY CLACKSON … Continue reading
Mayor hopeful’s £40,000 Home Office fine for migrant worker
2026 LOCAL ELECTIONS: Market trader was removed as chair of the Croydon Business Association last October, and is now running as an independent candidate after quitting Labour and Reform in the first three months of this year Jose Joseph, the … Continue reading
Posted in 2026 council elections, 2026 Croydon Mayor election, Business, Croydon Business Association, Fairfield, Jose Joseph, Surrey Street
Tagged asylum seeker, CBA, Croydon, Croydon Business Association, Croydon Council, Home Office, immigration, Jose Joseph, Labour, London Borough of Croydon, Mayor, Reform Ltd, Reform UK, Surrey Street, Surrey Street Market
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Face-less and word-less: fringe candidates who want your vote
Just who are these people wanting you to entrust them with your precious vote on May 7? As KEN TOWL discovered, some appear very reluctant to let you know who they are, or what they really stand for There’s this … Continue reading
Posted in 2026 council elections, Adam Kellett, Donald Speakman, Jose Joseph, London-wide issues, New Addington North, New Addington South, Selsdon and Addington Village, Selsdon Vale and Forestdale, Shirley North, Shirley South
Tagged 2026 council elections, 2026 local elections, Conservative, Croydon Council, Crystal Palace, Crystal Palace and Upper Norwood, Fairfield, Green Party, Jo Negrini, Katherine Kerswell, Labour, Liberal Democrats, London Borough of Croydon, Mark Adderley, Mel Mullings, Michael Castle, Nadia Sawalha, New Addington, New Addington North, Reform Ltd, Reform UK, Tory, TTIP, Your Party
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The ex-Tories standing for Reform all set for New Addington
After the mass resignation a fortnight ago of around a dozen members, including some candidates, Reform is trying to re-stage its New Addington walkabout tomorrow morning, with a promised ‘star guest’. WALTER CRONXITE, Political Editor, reports Wash. Rinse. Repeat. Reform, … Continue reading
Posted in 2026 council elections, 2026 Croydon Mayor election, Adam Kellett, Ben Flook, Dan Milner-Tebbutt, Donald Speakman, Jose Joseph, London-wide issues, Mayor Jason Perry, New Addington North, New Addington South, Selsdon and Addington Village, Selsdon Vale and Forestdale, Shirley North, Shirley South
Tagged 2026 council elections, 2026 Croydon mayoral election, 2026 local elections, Adam Kellett, Ben Flook, Central Parade, Dan Milner-Tebbutt, Dan Tebbutt, Donald Speakman, Fairfield Halls, Jose Joseph, New Addington, New Addington North, New Addington South, Nigel Farage, Nik Stewert, Reform, Reform Ltd, Reform UK, Scott Holman, Selsdon, Shirley
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