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Pot-less council had £300,000 legal fund to battle blogger
“Penniless council found £300,000 to silence blogger” reads the headline in today’s Times. “A Labour council with a £2.8million hole in its finances set up a secret £300,000 fund to silence a blogger who has been accusing it of corruption,” … Continue reading
Posted in Croydon Council, Inside Croydon, Local media
Tagged Julian Saunders, Sandwell Council, Sandwell Skidder
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It’s official(ish)! Croydon’s a rotten borough – Murdoch says so
‘Croydon has not so much overspent as bet on losers,’ according to The Times today. KEN LEE reports on how, belatedly, the collapse of our council has finally become national news The Thunderer has spoken. The parlous state of Croydon’s … Continue reading
Whitgift School old boy appointed as BBC Director-General
The new Director-General of the BBC is an Old Whitgiftian. It was announced today that Tim Davie will become the Corporation’s 17th DG in September, when Lord Tony Hall steps down. A scholarship boy at Whitgift School in the late … Continue reading
Posted in Local media, Whitgift School
Tagged BBC, Tim Davie, Whitgift Foundation, Whitgift School
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Ofcom awards radio licences to two stations based in Croydon
Croydon FM has been granted an official community radio station licence by Ofcom. In announcing six licences yesterday, including Select Radio which also operates in and around Croydon, the regulator said that these would be “the last round of community … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Croydon FM, Local media
Tagged Clive Campbell, Croydon FM, Ofcom, Select Radio
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#saveindependentnews: How government health ads are unfair
By Steven Downes, Editor, Inside Croydon Today, the government launched a public health campaign that will not reach you. It won’t reach you because the government has not included independently-owned community news publishers like Inside Croydon in its campaign. The … Continue reading
Posted in Inside Croydon, Local media
Tagged #saveindependentnews, Conservative, Croydon, Inside Croydon, Tory
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Newman’s Pravda over-promises as his council under-delivers
Even in the middle of the greatest crisis the borough has faced since World War II, there’s nothing stopping the council for gerrymandering on behalf of the beleaguered leader, Tony Newman. The latest edition of Your Croydon, the council’s Pravda, … Continue reading
Sadvertiser ‘celebrates’ 150th anniversary with a sales slump
Our local meeja correspondent, RAY GREENSLIDE, on the continuing decline and fall of a once-proud Croydon institution (another one) Fewer than 1 in 100 Croydon residents bothered to buy a copy of the Croydon Sadvertiser each week in 2019. What … Continue reading
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
Council leader: ‘Seven reasons never to move to Croydon’
Political editor WALTER CRONXITE on how Tony Newman has shown again that he ought not be allowed loose on the interweb unsupervised The increasingly error-prone Tony Newman, Labour’s leader of Croydon Council, dropped another bollock this morning, when he cheerily … Continue reading
Posted in Croydon Advertiser, Local media, Tony Newman
Tagged Croydon, Labour, London, Tony Newman
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Advertiser’s circulation falls below 5,000 per week for first time
Our local meeja correspondent, RAY GREENSLIDE, sifts through some figures which suggest the demise of a once proud Croydon institution The Croydon Sadvertiser, under the editorship of Andy Worden, sold a miserable 3,533 copies in one sorry week last year. … Continue reading
Posted in Croydon Advertiser, Local media
Tagged Andy Worden, Croydon Advertiser, Croydon Sadvertiser, Reach
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A Merry Christmas to Inside Croydon’s loyal reader
And that’s it from us for a couple of days. We’ll be back on Thursday, December 27, with our usual news-breaking, award-winning journalism from the heart of Croydon. Before the end of the year, we will be revealing… The £20million … Continue reading
Electoral Commission ruling is ‘victory for freedom of speech’
A clumsy effort to gag Inside Croydon, thought to have been conducted by Liberal Democrats in Sutton, has failed. A complaint was filed to the Electoral Commission, and is believed to have been made by LibDems in Sutton, where they … Continue reading
Posted in Inside Croydon, Jayne McCoy, Local media, Ruth Dombey, Sutton Council
Tagged Electoral Commission, Jayne McCoy, Liberal Democrats, London, Ruth Dombey, Sutton
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Guildford-based Sadvertiser to merge into London website
The Guildford-based Croydon Sadvertiser is about to dump its own dedicated website. In the latest move in the slow, painful and largely self-inflicted demise of the borough’s own local newspaper, it is being reported that the newspaper’s publishers are to … Continue reading
Posted in Croydon Advertiser, Local media, London-wide issues
Tagged Andy Worden, Croydon, Croydon Advertiser, Croydon Sadvertiser, Sadvertiser
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Shared ownership is an unaffordable joke, says Standard
Things must be bad when even London estate agents’ weekly booster pages identify how one of the housing market’s on-trend deals is failing to deliver. Today’s Homes and Property advertorial section in the Evening Standard (Editor: Gideon Osborne) lays into … Continue reading
Council’s official magazine forgets Remembrance Sunday
A former borough councillor says he is “extremely sad” that the latest edition of Your Croydon, described by Croydon Council as its “main source of community news”, has completely failed to make any mention of the centenary commemorations of the … Continue reading
Posted in Chris Wright, Community associations, Coulsdon, Croydon Council, History, Local media, Museum of Croydon, Old Coulsdon Residents' Association, Tony Newman
Tagged Addiscombe West, Chris Wright, Coulsdon, Croydon Council, London Borough of Croydon, Old Coulsdon, Sanderstead, Tony Newman
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National charity names Inside Croydon among autism heroes
Steven Downes, the editor of Inside Croydon, was honoured by a national charity last night when named Journalist of the Year at the Anna Kennedy Online Autism Hero Awards. According to the official citation, Downes was nominated for the award … Continue reading
Inside Croydon editor nominated for charity’s prestigious award
Steven Downes, the editor of Inside Croydon, has been nominated for a prestigious award for this website’s campaigning journalism over the provision, or lack of it, for young Croydon residents with autism and special educational needs. Anna Kennedy Online, the … Continue reading
House prices are falling just as Brick by Brick comes to market
A collapse in house prices, even in London and the south-east, could put more pressure on the Town Hall’s creaking finances, thanks to chief exec Jo “We’re Not Stupid” Negrini’s cunning plan of spending public money on building 1,000 homes … Continue reading
Information Commissioner orders Sussex Police to come clean over ‘knives and knuckle-duster’ claims
The editorial team of a Crystal Palace fanzine are today being congratulated by football supporters across the country for managing to hold to account the police, after the Information Commissioner’s Office ruled that Sussex Police’s had broken the Freedom of … Continue reading
Posted in Crystal Palace FC, Football, Local media, Sport
Tagged Crystal Palace, Crystal Palace FC, Five Year Plan
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Where in Croydon would you include on a special guided tour?
WIN! We have an exclusive South Norwood Tourist Board T-shirt to give away – the fashion item to be seen wearing in south London this festival season – in our free-to-enter competition Next month, the South Norwood Tourist Board, the … Continue reading
Leaflets target Labour leaders to halt Brick by Brick schemes
Guerilla leafleting has been carried out across three south London boroughs in protest against the councils’ leaderships, and in one case the police have been called in. Political editor WALTER CRONXITE reports Residents’ groups have been flyering their neighbourhoods to … Continue reading
Posted in 2018 council elections, Alison Butler, Bensham Manor, Brick by Brick, Housing, Local media, Merton, Outside Croydon, Paul Scott, Sutton Council, Tony Newman, Woodside
Tagged Alison Butler, Conservative, Croydon Council, Inside Sutton, Labour, Liberal Democrats, Merton Council, Paul Scott, Sutton Council, Tony Newman, Tory, Woodside
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‘Bogus Ben’ and freesheet’s lead story prompt complaints
Sutton reporter BELLE MONT on how a LibDem election candidate has been caught out trying to take credit for a community campaign Sutton’s polluting, thieving and cage-fighting LibDem councillors and ex-councillors, despite having been caught out trying to use tax-payers’ … Continue reading
Newman move to ban councillors who speak to Inside Croydon
With the borough’s children’s services deep in crisis, a pre-election Council Tax hike on the way and amid growing discontent over a scandal involving three senior council employees, Croydon’s council leader has taken to issuing threats to his own Labour … Continue reading
