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Supernatural, a Peter Green celebration, Coulsdon Club, July 23
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Tagged Comrades Club, Coulsdon, Coulsdon Club, Croydon, Music
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Comedy Fyles are worth seeing when they get to Edinburgh
FRINGE REVIEW: As the Croydonites festival enters its final two days, KEN TOWL (Croydon’s answer to Tynan), pictured right, conducts a compare and contrast of two of the shows this week, and marks your card for tonight and tomorrow, and … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Comedy, Croydonites Festival, Ken Towl, Poetry, Stanley Halls, The Front Room, The Front Room, The Oval Tavern, Theatre
Tagged Croydonites, Croydonites Fringe, Edinburgh, Edinburgh Festival, Edinburgh Festival Fringe, Emma Davies, Emmy Fyles, HR, Human Resources, Ken Towl, Stanley Halls, The Front Room
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Blues at the Oval, Sunday nights in July from 6pm, entry free
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Posted in Addiscombe West, Advertisement, Advertisement features, Art, Business, Music, The Oval Tavern
Tagged Addiscombe, Croydon, Music, The Oval Tavern
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Free SWLLC benefits and housing advice sessions, Selhurst
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Poetry emotion: We’re doing it for the craic and for the Cronx
The 2026 Croydonites Fringe began last night. Here, JOHNNY DOBBYN, pictured right, goes behind the scenes to explain the work that goes on to bring the festival’s shows to the stage Fancy being a theatrical, musical or literary performer – … Continue reading
Three things that change for you when you inherit £500,000
SPONSORED CONTENT Receiving a large inheritance is a major life event that brings a mix of complex emotions and sudden financial responsibilities. For many people in the UK, a windfall of this size completely shifts their long-term security and opens … Continue reading
Family Film Club screenings at David Lean Cinema in July
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From cabaret to the World Cup, from Sea Cadets to LTN refunds
PODCAST: The Croydon Insider returns with a new panel of readers to discuss the latest Croydon news, in a Croydonites Fringe special that picks some of the must-see shows at the festival from July 1 to 5. There’s even a … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Comedy, Commissioners, Croydon Council, Croydon Insider, Croydonites Festival, Elaine Jackson, Inside Croydon, Johnny Dobbyn, Music, Poetry, Sea Cadets, Stanley Halls, The Front Room, The Front Room, The Oval Tavern, Theatre, Under The Flyover
Tagged Anna Arthur, Cheryl Fergus-Ferrell, Croydon, Croydon Council, Croydon Sea Cadets, Croydonites, Croydonites Fringe, Crystal Palace, heatwave, Johnny Dobbyn, LTN, LTN fine refunds, Mark Windsor, Sea Cadets, World Cup
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Gardening bargains, MHA The Wilderness, Shirley, Mon-Fri
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South Norwood Community Festival, free entry, Sun July 5
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Sutton defends its Ofsted failure by claiming ‘no child was hurt’
EXCLUSIVE: LibDem council deliberately delayed publication of damning report to avoid its failures of SEND children appearing before the local elections. DAVE BURTON reports how councillors and officials have broken confidentiality rules and tried to pass the buck Ofsted and … Continue reading
Croydonites Fringe Festival, various venues, from July 1 to 5
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Norbury Brook River Revive clean-up, Thornton Heath, July 4
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You can do much with a phone line and a broken-down van
The murder of a white boy in Camden in 1994 sparked fears of a race war. GABRIEL MacARTHUR ventured to north London to see CamdenWalla, a play about that fateful night In 1984, Nasim Ali established the Camden Monitoring Project. … Continue reading
Social media ban is the chance to reclaim children’s childhoods
CROYDON COMMENTARY: The government wants stronger controls on how under-16s use their phones. KEN TOWL welcomes the move We are arming our kids with weapons we hardly understand and, up to now, the rules around these weapons have been principally … Continue reading
Posted in Education, Ken Towl, Schools
Tagged Croydon, Elon Musk, Facebook, Ken Towl, Molly Rose Foundation, Online Safety Act, Sir Keir Starmer, SnapChat, Social media ban, TikTok, Twitter, X
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Croydonites Fringe Festival, various venues, from July 1 to 5
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From Morocco to the Whitgift, captured in broken egg shells
One night in Morocco in 2014, a young artist lay on the flat roof of her home and stared up at the stars in a clear sky. She thought about a documentary she had seen, about the use of eggshells … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Ken Towl, Turf Projects
Tagged Croydon, Egg shell art, Hammersfield, Ken Towl, Sara Hayfa, Turf Projects, Whitgift Centre
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South Norwood Community Festival, free entry, Sun July 5
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Norbury Brook River Revive clean-up, Thornton Heath, July 4
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Croydon Primary Showcase concert, Fairfield Halls, July 6
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Summer Fair, St James the Great, Norbury, Sun July 5
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How to tell if your meeting room has an acoustics problem
SPONSORED CONTENT Many office managers notice that their meeting spaces suffer from poor sound quality during calls, but they can’t always name the exact issue. People struggle to hear speakers clearly on video calls, and conversations bounce off the walls. … Continue reading
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Tagged acoustics, Advertisement, Bulldog Media, Resonics, sound, Sponsored content
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Take a turn around Shirley Windmill for a history masterclass
Making a strong pitch for a promotion to becoming Inside Croydon’s tea and cakes correspondent, KEN TOWL pictured left, makes a visit to the Shirley Windmill and adds it to your summer ‘To do’ list We started on the dust … Continue reading
Gardening bargains, MHA The Wilderness, Shirley, Mon-Fri
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It’s really time to go when they throw ‘Mix’ into gesture politics
CROYDON COMMENTARY: Are you a ‘Mr’, a ‘Ms’, or a ‘Mx’? You’re unlikely to be a ‘Mix’, unless you’re a member of the Labour Party in its troubled Croydon East CLP. KEN TOWL, pictured right, explains A couple of days … Continue reading
