Blog Stats
- 17,645,427 hits
-
Privacy & Cookies: This site uses cookies. By continuing to use this website, you agree to their use.
To find out more, including how to control cookies, see here: Cookie Policy Email Subscription
Join 20,922 other subscribersinsidecroydon
Follow us on Facebook
Archives
Recent Comments
Our latest Twitter activity
- RT @AndrewJPelling: I voted against this #Croydon #Labour attack on those in need and lost the Labour whip as a result. Labour platitudes a… 59 minutes ago
- patreon.com/posts/80282328… 2 hours ago
- RT @InsideCroydon: Croydon’s Council Tax scheme to face High Court challenge #Croydon #CouncilTax @BBCTimDonovan @itvlondon @standardn… 3 hours ago
- RT @InsideCroydon: Serious concerns after latest spate of youth knife crimes #Croydon #CroydonInCrisis @MPSCroydon @metpoliceuk @Crime… 3 hours ago
- RT @InsideCroydon: It’s a case of Hodgson’s choice for Palace fans as Roy returns #Croydon #cpfc @standardsport @BBCLondonSport @Lawto… 3 hours ago
- RT @InsideCroydon: ‘Too often councils are failing in their duties’ on homelessness #Croydon @LGOmbudsman @SteveChalke @Channel4News… 3 hours ago
Tags
- Addiscombe West
- Alison Butler
- Andrew Pelling
- Barwell
- Boris Johnson
- Brick by Brick
- Chris Philp MP
- Conservative
- coronavirus
- Coulsdon
- Council Tax
- Covid-19
- Croydon
- Croydon Central
- Croydon Council
- Croydon North
- Croydon South
- Crystal Palace
- Crystal Palace and Upper Norwood
- East Croydon station
- England
- Fairfield Halls
- Gavin Barwell
- Hammersfield
- Hammerson
- Jo Negrini
- Labour
- Liberal Democrats
- London
- London Assembly
- London Borough of Croydon
- Mayor
- New Addington
- Norbury
- Paul Scott
- Purley
- Sarah Jones MP
- South Croydon
- South Norwood
- Steve Reed OBE
- Sutton Council
- TfL
- Thornton Heath
- Tony Newman
- Tory
- Transport for London
- Waddon
- Westfield
- Whitgift Centre
- Whitgift Foundation
Category Archives: Local media
Inside Croydon in ‘watershed’ news sites deal with Google
Google has announced what has been described as “a watershed moment for the industry” with a partnership with the Independent Community News Network, including founder member Inside Croydon. Under the deal, Inside Croydon and another 44 hyperlocal publications will be … Continue reading
Posted in Inside Croydon, Local media
Tagged Croydon, Google, Google News Showcase, ICNN, Independent Community News Network, Inside Croydon
10 Comments
Inside track on Council Tax – listen to our latest podcast here
Posted in Andrew Fisher, Charity, Community associations, Council Tax, Croydon FM, Croydon Insider, Inside Croydon, Ken Towl, Schools, Under The Flyover
Tagged Andrew Fisher, Cheryl Fergus-Ferrell, Council Tax, Croydon Council, Croydon FM, Croydon Insider, Ken Towl, Lee Townsend, Under The Flyover
4 Comments
Croydon’s 15% Council Tax hike: now is the time for action
CROYDON IN CRISIS: In the past day, there’s been an overwhelming angry rejection of the idea that ordinary, hard-working families in this borough should pay even more for the mistakes and incompetence of council officials and politicians. Which is why … Continue reading
Posted in Community associations, Council Tax, Croydon Council, Inside Croydon, Local media, Mayor Jason Perry
Tagged Conservative, Council Tax, Croydon, Croydon Council, Department for Levelling Up, DLUHC, Green Party, Labour, Liberal Democrats, London Borough of Croydon, Michael Gove, Parliamentary petition, Tory, Town Hall petition, Wolfie Smith
8 Comments
Pro-pollution Scully to challenge Khan for anti-London Tories
The Conservatives in London, under threat of being wiped out as a political force at the next General Election (with the possible exception of Croydon South), are positioning themselves as the pro-car, pro-pollution party in a desperate effort to win … Continue reading
Chinese whispers catch out part-time Perry over Nestlé Tower
Jason Perry’s reputation for non-delivery took another huge leap forward today with the news that a senior figure involved with the Chinese property company that owns the landmark Nestlé Tower in the town centre is wanted in the United States … Continue reading
#TheLabourFiles: Source of hacked data worked for Evans
Further links to the Labour Party’s General Secretary have been confirmed since Al Jazeera broadcast The Spying Game documentary. EXCLUSIVE by STEVEN DOWNES Further investigations since Al Jazeera broadcast their documentary “The Spying Game” have discovered that the person who … Continue reading
Posted in Alison Butler, Clive Fraser, Crime, Croydon North, Crystal Palace and Upper Norwood, David Evans, Inside Croydon, Local media, Steve Reed MP, Tony Newman
Tagged #TheLabourFiles, Al Jazeera, Alison Butler, Andrew Pelling, Clive Fraser, Croydon, Crystal Palace, Crystal Palace and Upper Norwood, David Evans, David White, ICO, Information Commissioners Office, Keir Starmer, Labour, Labour Files, Morgan McSweeney, Open Our Roads, Robert Canning, Ruth Bannister, Stephen Mann, The Labour Files, Tony Newman
3 Comments
#TheLabourFiles programmes show party ‘corrupt to the core’
A former MP leads a call for those responsible to resign as councillors after failing to report a malicious hack attack to the police. EXCLUSIVE By STEVEN DOWNES A former MP and councillor of 32 years’ service at Croydon Town … Continue reading
#TheLabourFiles: Silence won’t make the hard facts go away
Political columnist Peter Oborne has taken his media colleagues to task for missing one of the biggest stories of the year. By STEVEN DOWNES One of the country’s most respected political commentators has said that “it is impossible to justify … Continue reading
Red faces after doomed supermarket is shortlisted for award
Red faces at Grey Label, the marketing agency that organises the “Croydon Business Excellence Awards”, where they have managed to shortlist as “Best Employer” a business that is about to make its 70 workers redundant. As exclusively revealed by Inside … Continue reading
Thank you Croydon! Website breaks records with 3m views
By STEVEN DOWNES Editor, Inside Croydon Thank you, Croydon. At some point over the weekend, this website eased past the total number of page views we received in 2020, as we set another record in our daily coverage of all … Continue reading
New Star rising at Ruskin House as national paper moves in
While the two local newspapers have long ago abandoned having a proper, physical presence in the borough, Croydon is now the home of a national newspaper, one which Labour politician Tony Benn once described as “the best national newspaper in … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Local media
Tagged Ben Chacko, Croydon, Croydon Central, Morning Star, Ruskin House
3 Comments
Chief whip worked with group that attacks council policy
CROYDON IN CRISIS: Evidence has emerged that shows a Labour councillor negotiating with an anti-LTN group over illegally obtained documents. And now he’s been put in charge of party discipline at the scandal-hit council. By STEVEN DOWNES The Town Hall’s … Continue reading
Posted in Clive Fraser, Commuting, Crystal Palace and Upper Norwood, Cycling, Inside Croydon, Local media, Louis Carserides, Pat Ryan, South Norwood, Stuart King, Transport
Tagged Clive Fraser, Croydon, Croydon Council, Crystal Palace and Upper Norwood, Eliska Finlay, Labour, London Borough of Croydon, Low Traffic Neighbourhood, LTNs, Open Our Roads, Pat Ryan, South Norwood
2 Comments
Community station has questions over council’s radio silence
Town Hall leaders were keen enough to promote themselves with selfies in the studios, but now a manager at the town’s community station claims they have been ‘black-listed’ by the council. By STEVEN DOWNES One week has passed since Croydon … Continue reading
Croydon’s first official community radio station goes live on FM
Croydon FM went live at the weekend, as Croydon’s first official FM community radio station. The station was officially granted its FM broadcast licence by Ofcom last year, but covid-19 and repeated lockdowns had slowed progress to the official launch. … Continue reading
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
4 Comments
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
Leave a comment
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
Leave a comment
#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
2 Comments
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
5 Comments
