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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
Trains, trams and bicycles: get your tickets now for Wolmar talk
With less than a week to go, there’s just a few tickets remaining for the first Talking Inside Croydon event of 2018, when transport expert Christian Wolmar will be discussing his latest book, Railways & The Raj, and taking questions … Continue reading
Posted in Inside Croydon, Local media, Talking Inside Croydon, Transport
Tagged Christian Wolmar, St Andrew's Church
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Standard practice: tram extension story goes off the rails
Transport correspondent JEREMY CLACKSON on the difference between what is really happening, and what an advertising feature in the rag edited by trainee journalist Gideon Osborne says Transport for London has spent the past 24 hours trying to calmly damp … Continue reading
Posted in Evening Boris, Merton, Sutton Council, TfL, Tramlink, Transport
Tagged Evening Standard, London, Mayor, Merton Council, Sadiq Khan, Sutton Council, TfL, Transport for London
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Year Zero at Sadvertiser as local paper abandons archive
It’s as if nothing has happened in Croydon over the past 15 years, if the website of the Guildford-based Croydon Sadvertiser is anything to go by. The non-local paper, which abandoned its home town in 2013 to save a few … Continue reading
Posted in Croydon Advertiser, Local media
Tagged Croydon Advertiser, Croydon Sadvertiser, Gareth Davies
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Local newspaper group seeks funding through a charity appeal
Waitrose’s George Street branch is this month using part of its community charity fund-raiser to support a newspaper business which last year reported profits of £70million and which axed the jobs of around 200 professional journalists. The Croydon branch of … Continue reading
Posted in Charity, Croydon Guardian, Local media
Tagged Croydon Guardian, East Croydon station, Waitrose
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Politics professor gives free talk on the election, and Trump
Next month, Inside Croydon is holding Talking Inside Croydon, a unique, sometimes serious, often off-beat and eclectic set of talks by experts, authors and novelists about their work, and the news and the issues of the day. As you might … Continue reading
Posted in Activities, Local media, Talking Inside Croydon
Tagged Dr Bob Beatty, Talking Inside Croydon
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May Day: Please help our appeal against Boxpark legal threat
Inside Croydon has been around for nearly seven years, and never before have we asked for any financial help from our loyal reader. Until now. The website has incurred legal bills in defending – successfully, we’re happy to say – … Continue reading
Steve Reed OBE to become the next editor of Inside Croydon
Steve Reed OBE, the former deputy chair of Progress and, since 2012, the MP for Croydon North/Lambeth South [delete to taste] is to be the new editor of Inside Croydon, it has been announced today. The former leader of Lambeth … Continue reading
Posted in Evening Boris, Local media, Steve Reed MP
Tagged Appril Fool's Day, Labour, Steve Reed OBE, Tory
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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
Lights! Camera! Thumbs Up! Film-maker asks for your help
A Croydon film-maker has made an appeal to Inside Croydon‘s loyal reader to help her win a £10,000 prize which could help boost her promising documentary career. But Rebecca Richards needs you to act quickly – she needs your clicks … Continue reading
Delay over Upper Norwood Library transfer raises worries
The future of a library which has served thousands of Croydon residents for more than a century has been thrown into renewed uncertainty, with doubts over the funding for Upper Norwood Library after next year, and with the proposed transfer … Continue reading
Posted in Community associations, Croydon Council, Crystal Palace and Upper Norwood, Education, Lambeth Council, Libraries, Local media, Norwood Society, Upper Norwood Library Trust
Tagged Croydon Council, Crystal Palace and Upper Norwood, Labour, Lambeth council, London Borough of Croydon, Save Upper Norwood Library Campaign, Steve Reed OBE, Upper Norwood Joint Library, Upper Norwood Library Trust
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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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And then there were none: journo No4 quits Croydon Guardian
Will the last person to leave the Croydon Guardian offices please turn off the lights? As the journalists on Croydon and Sutton’s free newspapers extend their dispute with rapacious owners Newsquest over compulsory redundancies, news comes of yet another staff … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Croydon Guardian, Local media, London-wide issues
Tagged Chris Baynes, Croydon, Croydon Guardian, Nick Hitchens, Sutton, Sutton Guardian
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Miserable Croydon ranked near bottom of happiness table
It’s official: Croydon is one of the most miserable places to live in London. Well, when we say “official”, we actually mean that the Evening Boris says so. But they did get their source statistics from the Office for National … Continue reading
Posted in Croydon Council, Evening Boris, Tony Newman
Tagged Croydon, Croydon Council, Evening Boris, Evening Standard, London
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More redundancies at free paper take news off the agenda
Most of the journalists – or at least, any journalists who are left – at local free papers the Croydon Guardian and the Sutton Guardian have been put on notice of redundancy by the company which owns them, Newsquest, in … Continue reading
Croydon’s silly season stats which do not stand up to scrutiny
CROYDON COMMENTARY: The infamous maxim that if you repeat a lie often enough it becomes the truth has flourished in Croydon this week. STEVEN DOWNES is just glad the silly season is over Thank goodness it’s September. I wouldn’t usually … Continue reading
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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Former Advertiser reporter: ‘the paper is now beyond saving’
Gareth Davies, until recently the Croydon Advertiser’s chief reporter, has today supplemented his Friday night Twitter outburst about the decline of the newspaper with a detailed essay which picks apart the decade-long disinvestment in local journalism, and journalists, by the … Continue reading
Posted in Croydon Advertiser, Local media
Tagged Croydon, Croydon Advertiser, Croydon Sadvertiser, Gareth Davies
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Former reporter in bitter attack against ‘clickbait’ Advertiser
STEVEN DOWNES on an extraordinary Twitter outburst from a “heart broken” local newspaper journalist who says that redundancies and cut-backs at his old workplace have made things “really shit” The Croydon Sadvertiser is dead. It’s ceased to be. It’s pushing … Continue reading
Vigilantes face stiff task against doggers in Shirley Hills
There’s outrage and uproar in the sleepy suburb of Shirley, according to reports in the Croydon Grauniad. The freebie paper’s online edition’s best-read news report of the last 24 hours is one which glories in having the headline: “Police hunting … Continue reading
Posted in Croydon Guardian, Local media, Shirley North
Tagged dogging, Shirley, Shirley Hills
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