Category Archives: Local media

Sadvertiser ‘celebrates’ 150th anniversary with a sales slump

Posted on February 19, 2020 by

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 →

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Under The Flyover: Homelessness is worse than 40 years ago

Posted on August 24, 2019 by

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 →

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Council leader: ‘Seven reasons never to move to Croydon’

Posted on April 30, 2019 by

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 →

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Advertiser’s circulation falls below 5,000 per week for first time

Posted on March 1, 2019 by

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 →

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A Merry Christmas to Inside Croydon’s loyal reader

Posted on December 24, 2018 by

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 →

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Electoral Commission ruling is ‘victory for freedom of speech’

Posted on December 19, 2018 by

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 →

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Guildford-based Sadvertiser to merge into London website

Posted on December 5, 2018 by

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 →

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