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Category Archives: Croydon Radio
Digital radio station decides to pull the plug one last time
Croydon Radio is to close this Friday. Having been shunted out of its original town centre home, Matthew’s Yard, when its rents were hiked by 150 per cent last year, the digital radio station run by volunteers has spent the … Continue reading
Digital radio station in crisis as it declares itself homeless again
Croydon Radio’s “live programming” is set to go off-air for the second time in six months. The community-run digital station was forced out of its original studios off Surrey Street by a 150 per cent hike in rents by landlords … Continue reading
Posted in Croydon Radio, Local media, Surrey Street
Tagged Croydon Airport, Croydon Radio, Matthews Yard, Surrey Street
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Off-air radio station still without new studio or broadcast date
Croydon Radio say that they “have made the decision to seek new premises with room for development, rather than continue to invest in our current modest space”, as they prepare to leave Matthew’s Yard, off Surrey Street, the home for … Continue reading
Posted in Croydon Radio, Local media, Music, Surrey Street
Tagged Croydon Radio, Surrey Street
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150% rent hike forces Croydon Radio to stop programming
Croydon Radio has gone off-air, the community-run digital station having decided to leave its studio in Matthew’s Yard, off Surrey Street, after a demand for a 150 per cent rent increase. There has been no new or live programming from … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Croydon Radio, Local media, Music, Surrey Street
Tagged Croydon Radio, Matthews Yard, Saif Bonar, Surrey Street, Tim Longhurst, Tracey Rabbetts
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Bonar back-tracks over closure after latest fire safety visit
Saif Bonar, the “founder” of Matthew’s Yard coffee shop off Surrey Street, has backed down from his public threat to close up the property’s workspace and end his work on that part of the building. Bonar had made his threat … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Croydon Council, Croydon Radio, Fairfield, Property, Pubs, Surrey Street, Theatre
Tagged Conservative, Croydon Central, Croydon Council, Fairfield, Jon Rouse, Mario Creatura, Matthews Yard, Saif Bonar, Tory
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Dekker features in Norwood and Thornton Heath film festival
JANET SMITH, from the Save the David Lean Cinema Campaign, is looking forward to next week’s South Norwood and Thornton Heath Free Film Festival The inaugural South Norwood and Thornton Heath Free Film Festival begins on Saturday. This is part … Continue reading
Radio station accused of deceit over inclusion of NF guest
Figures from a range of political parties are accusing Croydon Radio of deceiving them over the inclusion of local fascist Tony Martin in an “election special” aired last night. Andrew Pelling, the former Croydon MP who presented a midweek show … Continue reading
Posted in 2014 council elections, Andrew Pelling, Croydon Radio, Local media, South Croydon, Tony Newman
Tagged Andrew Pelling, BNP, British National Party, Croydon, Croydon Council, Croydon Radio, Labour, Liberal Democrats, National Front, Nick Griffin, Thornton Heath, Tony Martin, Tory
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Croham NF candidate dropped from election broadcast
Croydon Radio was forced into an embarrassing U-turn yesterday, as it withdrew its invitation to Tony Martin, Croydon’s representative of the fascist far-right, to appear on its endurance test of a four-hour “election special” planned for Sunday. Tony Martin – … Continue reading
Spendthrift council forks out £176,000 on sound system
Next week, thousands of Croydon children will make their ways to their schools at the start of the new term without the reassuring assistance of a “school crossing patrol officer” – a lollipop lady or man in old-fashioned, ordinary English … Continue reading
Radio station’s first birthday arrives with some growing pains
Happy birthday, Croydon Radio. The borough’s digital radio station is back on air with live programmes just in time to celebrate its first anniversary. Tim Longhurst and Tracey Rabbetts are the co-founders of the Croydon internet-based station, which uses more … Continue reading
Steaming from the Junction with more hurry than Andy Murray
Summer fairs, festivals and community events provide for busy weekends for Croydon North‘s MP, as STEVE REED writes One of the great pleasures of representing a place as gloriously diverse as Croydon North is the number of cultural festivals on … Continue reading
Posted in Church and religions, Community associations, Croydon North, Croydon Radio, Dance, Fairfield Halls, Gardening, Music, Paul Scott, Steve Reed MP
Tagged Andy Murray, Archbishop Lanfranc School, Croydon, Croydon North, Fairfield Halls, London, Norwood Junction railway station, Sunday
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Bishop says he will always defend the poorest in society
Jonathan Clark, the Bishop of Croydon, says that the government is “placing an additional and unfair burden on the poorest members of our society”. In an interview to be aired on local radio this weekend, Bishop Clark explains why he … Continue reading
Laings quit £30m Croydon libraries privatisation deal
Croydon Council’s plan to privatise our public libraries was in ruins tonight, as its hand-picked partners were revealed to have walked away from the £30 million, eight-year deal. And Eddy Arram, the Tory mayor in charge of tonight’s meeting at … Continue reading
Fisher goes radio ga-ga over council’s broadcast promises
Croydon’s secretive Conservative-run council scrapped the broadcasting of official meetings in 2009, on the pretext of saving money. Last week, more than a year after Croydon Radio offered to record and podcast council meetings for no charge, council leader Mike … Continue reading
Posted in Croydon Council, Croydon Radio, Mike Fisher
Tagged Conservative, Croydon, Local government, London, London Borough of Croydon, Mike Fisher, Radio
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Newman will “blow open the books” on £140m council HQ
Tony Newman, the leader of the opposition group on Croydon Council, has pledged that if Labour wins control of the Town Hall in the 2014 local elections, he “will blow open the books” to expose the hundreds of million pounds … Continue reading
Posted in Croydon Radio, Housing, Mike Fisher, Planning, Property, Tony Newman, URV, Waste incinerator, Woodside
Tagged Council Tax, Croydon, Google, Labour, Labour Council, London Borough of Croydon, Mike Fisher, Tony Newman
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By-election candidate relying on Twitter to reach voters
In an exclusive interview for Croydon Radio to be broadcast on Sunday, one of the candidates for the Croydon North by-election admits that his campaign is relying on social media – Twitter and Facebook primarily – to get his message … Continue reading
Tune-in for business advice in Global Enterprise Week
You might not have noticed, but it is Global Entrepreneurship Week, this year with a focus on passing on practical help for start-ups and those thinking about launching into business. Croydon Radio is playing its part on Sunday with a … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Croydon Radio, Education, Local media, Restaurants
Tagged Business, Croydon, Entrepreneur, Global Entrepreneurship Week, London, Norman Pierce, South Croydon
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