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Songbird Showcase Night, The Oval Tavern, Sat July 18, 8pm
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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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TfL trams boss in public appeal to take care crossing the tracks
UNDER THE FLYOVER VIDEO EXCLUSIVE In our latest podcast, TfL’s Mark Davis urges pedestrians and motorists to exercise due care when crossing tramway, where there’s ‘one near-miss a week’. PLUS: We reveal how a tram has been driven the wrong … Continue reading
Posted in Commuting, East Croydon, Inside Croydon, TfL, Tramlink, Transport, Under The Flyover
Tagged Croydon Trams, London Trams, Mark Davis, TfL, Trams Operations Ltd, Transport for London
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Ruskin House Folk and Blues Festival, Coombe Road, July 18
C O M M U N I T Y A D V E R T I S E M E N T For more information about the festival and all the Croydon Folk and Blues Club performances, click here
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
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Boomer Harris setting records on way to Surrey’s T20 finals
HOOK’S SHOT: The county’s women’s side are guaranteed a place in the T20 finals at The Oval next week, with the men’s side closing in on a place. Here, MARCUS HOOK interviews the players, including Laura Harris and Jason Roy, … Continue reading
Posted in Cricket, Jamie Smith, Jason Roy, Marcus Hook, Sport, Surrey CCC
Tagged Bryony Smith, Dan Worrall, Hook's shot, Jason Roy, Kalea Moore, Laura Harris, Marcus Hook, Surrey, Surrey CCC, Surrey County Cricket Club, T20, The Oval, Vitality Blast
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What AI tagging means for your image searches in 2026
SPONSORED CONTENT Anyone who has ever lost half a morning hunting for one photo knows the problem. The file existed, someone uploaded it, and now nobody can find it. AI tagging is the feature quietly fixing that, and in 2026 … Continue reading
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Tagged Advertisement, AI, AI tagging, Assetbank, Bulldog Media, Sponsored content
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Eco Living Fest, Holy Innocents South Norwood, Sat July 18
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Ruskin House Folk and Blues Festival, Coombe Road, July 18
C O M M U N I T Y A D V E R T I S E M E N T For more information about the festival and all the Croydon Folk and Blues Club performances, click here
Oh! What A Lovely War, Coulsdon Manor Hotel, Jul 29-Aug 7
C O M M U N I T Y A D V E R T I S E M E N T For ticket bookings and more information, visit the Theatre Workshop Coulsdon website by clicking here
Supernatural, a Peter Green celebration, Coulsdon Club, July 23
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Posted in Advertisement, Advertisement features, Art, Coulsdon, Music
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
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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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Tagged Croydon, Gardening, MHA, MHA Hall Grange, MHA The Wilderness
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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
A D V E R T I S E M E N T Click here for full details of the Croydonites Fringe Festival and ticket bookings
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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