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Category Archives: Under The Flyover
Podcast: ‘My living nightmare in temporary accommodation’
Last week, we published the account by SHANTAL MOSES (left) of her lockdown year spent with her young son in inadequate and dangerous accommodation provided by Croydon Council. This is Croydon’s real housing crisis, another aspect of the appalling conditions … Continue reading
Posted in Alison Butler, Croydon Council, Housing, Under The Flyover
Tagged Gilroy Court, ITV News, Shantal Moses, Thornton Heath
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WIN! Enter our competition and help homelessness charity
In our final special readers’ offer for 2019, we have three copies to give away of Cash Carraway’s acclaimed memoir of the survival of her and her young daughter on and around the fringes of society in austerity Britain – … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Charity, Croydon Nightwatch, Inside Croydon, Jad Adams, Under The Flyover
Tagged Cash Carraway, Croydon, Croydon Nightwatch, Jad Adams, Skint Estate
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Under The Flyover Election Special podcast: Olga FitzRoy
Political editor WALTER CRONXITE introduces the latest of our innovative virtual hustings Labour won two of the three Croydon parliamentary seats in 2017, and seeking to deliver a cleansweep in 2019 is their candidate Olga FitzRoy. An award-winning sound engineer … Continue reading
Posted in 2019 General Election, Croydon South, Inside Croydon, Olga Fitzroy, Under The Flyover
Tagged Croydon South, Labour, Olga Fitzroy
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Under The Flyover Election Special podcast: Peter Underwood
WALTER CRONXITE, our political editor, introduces the third of our ground-breaking virtual hustings Ahead of the General Election on December 12, Inside Croydon invited some of the candidates from across the three Croydon parliamentary constituencies to join us at our … Continue reading
Under The Flyover Election Special podcast: Chris Philp
Our political editor, WALTER CRONXITE, introduces the second of our ground-breaking virtual hustings, this time with a candidate who has been MP since 2015 Ahead of the General Election on December 12, Inside Croydon invited some of the candidates from … Continue reading
Under The Flyover Election Special podcast: Simon Sprague
Our political editor, WALTER CRONXITE, introduces our ground-breaking and unique virtual hustings
Under The Flyover, Ep 4: TV antiques expert Catherine Southon
Catherine Southon has quickly become one of the country’s favourite television antique experts, with her frequent appearances on the BBC’s Bargain Hunt and, more recently, with her packed auction house featured on Make Me A Dealer. But behind the TV … Continue reading
Under The Flyover, Episode 1: Mark Butcher
On music, Test cricket, and racism Inside Croydon is delighted to launch Under The Flyover, our podcast which over the coming months will be complementing our website reporting with interviews and recordings offered exclusively to our loyal supporters. And first … Continue reading
Posted in Under The Flyover
Tagged cricket, Music, Podcast, Surrey County Cricket Club, Under The Flyover
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Under The Flyover: Homelessness is worse than 40 years ago
Homelessness in Croydon today is “much, much worse” than it was 40 years ago. That’s according to Jad Adams, the chair of Croydon Nightwatch, who has been a volunteer with the charity since 1979 and has seen the devastating impact … Continue reading
Help us to keep reporting news they don’t want you to see
Do you read Inside Croydon regularly? Have you been enlighted, informed and entertained by our coverage of our unaccountable council execs on six-figure salaries, our borderline incompetent councillors and the political machinations within local parties, with our MPs and wannabe … Continue reading
Posted in Inside Croydon, Under The Flyover
Tagged Inside Croydon, Under The Flyover
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Community activist is leading fight to save Love Lane gardens
Hear how a group of neighbours and friends in South Norwood is fighting to save their community gardens from Mayfair-based property developers, as featured in our latest Under The Flyover podcast The strength of the council’s commitment to protecting Croydon’s … Continue reading
Butcher: England should put their ‘batting brute’ Roy in at No3
Surrey’s Jason Roy should be in the England Test team’s top order for the Ashes series and has a hugely important role in tomorrow’s World Cup semi-final against Australia. That’s the view of Mark Butcher, the former Surrey and England … Continue reading
Under The Flyover: Mark Butcher on music, Tests and racism
Inside Croydon is delighted today to launch Under The Flyover, our podcast which over the coming months will be complementing our website reporting with interviews and recordings offered exclusively to our loyal supporters. And first to go Under The Flyover … Continue reading