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Great North Wood goes virtual to plant the ecology message
A wildlife festival has gone online, and an online search engine is offering to plant a tree for you, as PAUL LUSHION, our environment correspondent, reports This is National Tree Week. But like most things in 2020, this year’s events … Continue reading
E-Moo-gency services rescue pregnant cow on Farthing Downs
The steaks were high when the London Fire Brigade got an e-moo-gency call-out on Sunday morning to avoid udder chaos on Farthing Downs. One of the herd of Sussex cattle that are part of an ecology project on the Downs, … Continue reading
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Tagged Coulsdon, Farthing Downs, London Fire Brigade
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Croydon house fires prompt safety warnings over batteries
The London Fire Brigade successfully tackled a fire at a house on Whitehorse Lane in South Norwood this morning. It was the second house fire at a home in Croydon in a couple of days, in a week when the … Continue reading
Posted in London Fire Brigade, South Norwood
Tagged London Fire Brigade, Selhurst, South Norwood
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Police make arrest in murder inquiry over sergeant’s shooting
England’s rugby players paid tribute at Twickenham yesterday to Matt Ratana, the rugby-playing police sergeant who was shot dead while on duty Croydon in September. The emotive gesture came the day after the police announced that they had arrested a … Continue reading
Posted in Old Walcountians, Policing, Rugby Union
Tagged Matt Ratana, Old Walcountians
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Medics strongly support Mayor’s moves to safer streets
Sadiq Khan, the Mayor of London, has received a letter signed by 120 medical professionals – doctors and nurses – supporting Transport for London’s Streetspace initiative and backing road changes that make it safer to walk or cycle around the … Continue reading
Posted in Crystal Palace and Upper Norwood, Environment, Health, London-wide issues, Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan
Tagged Croydon Council, Crystal Palace, Crystal Palace and Upper Norwood, London, Low Traffic Neighbourhood, LTN, Mayor, South Norwood, Streetspace, TfL, Transport for London, Upper Norwood
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Leaders appeal to Londoners to follow new lockdown rules
As the nation goes into its second coronavirus lockdown today, the number of positive cases of covid-19 continues to rise in Croydon, even though the infection rate appears to be falling in 19 other London boroughs. Sadiq Khan, the Mayor … Continue reading
Posted in Croydon Council, Hamida Ali, Health, Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan
Tagged coronavirus, Covid-19, Croydon, Croydon Council, Hamida Ali, London, London Borough of Croydon, Mayor, Sadiq Khan
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Palace in £1m agreement with council for Selhurst scheme
Crystal Palace FC’s long-delayed development plans to upgrade their Selhurst Park home could be about to get underway after Sadiq Khan, the Mayor of London, rubber-stamped a community levy deal that could be worth up to £1million to the local … Continue reading
Lockdown II could last a minimum of four weeks, expert says
Bungling Boris Johnson’s delay in announcing a second national lockdown to reduce the spread of coronavirus – ignoring the advice of government experts calling for a “circuit-breaker” six weeks earlier – has cost people’s lives. That is the view of … Continue reading
Posted in Boris Johnson, Health
Tagged Boris Johnson, Conservative, coronavirus, Covid-19, London, Tory
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Tories accused of ‘playing childish political games’ over TfL
JEREMY CLACKSON, transport correspondent, on the latest last-gasp arrangement forced on the capital by anti-London Dominic Cummings and his government Croydon South MP Chris Philp and his Tory government have consigned the whole of London to significant Council Tax rises … Continue reading
Posted in Boris Johnson, Caroline Pidgeon, Chris Philp MP, Commuting, London Assembly, London-wide issues, Mayor of London, Paul Scully MP, Sadiq Khan, TfL, Tramlink, Transport
Tagged Caroline Pid, Caroline Pidgeon, Chris Philp MP, Conservative, Labour, Liberal Democrats, London, London Assembly, Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, TfL, Tory, Transport for London
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Cane Hill Park unveils sundial artwork to honour its history
Residents of Cane Hill Park have been enjoying a new public artwork, which pays homage to the history of Cane Hill Hospital. Croydon-based Artist Holly Graham has created a sundial artwork entitled While The Piled Cumuli Sail Galleon-Like Above – … Continue reading
Now Tories look to axe Freedom Pass as well as Zip cards
An unelected adviser, an old mate of Boris Johnson, is imposing a range of conditions on TfL and causing anger among Tory MPs, as our transport correspondent, JEREMY CLACKSON, reports The anti-London government run by Dominic Cummings is looking to … Continue reading
Posted in London-wide issues, Mayor of London, Paul Scully MP, Sadiq Khan, TfL, Tramlink, Transport
Tagged Andrew Gilligan, Boris Johnson, Chris Philp MP, Conservative, Croydon, Croydon South, Grant Shapps, Labour, London, Mayor, Paul Scully MP, Sadiq Khan, TfL, Tory, Transport for London
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New leader Ali blames covid for crime report that is a year late
CROYDON IN CRISIS: On crime figures, ‘some are going up, some are going down’, according to the newly elected leader of the council, who has failed in a legal duty to deliver a community safety plan. KEN LEE reports Whichever … Continue reading
Tory MP Philp’s claims on Congestion Charge quickly unravel
Our political editor, WALTER CRONXITE, on the latest wrong turns through Britain’s political swamp made by Croydon’s Tory MP It seems that letting Chris Philp out in public, to spout from his own script, has caused the government problems again, … Continue reading
Posted in Boris Johnson, Chris Philp MP, Croydon South, London Assembly, London-wide issues, Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, Shaun Bailey, TfL, Transport
Tagged Chris Philp MP, Conservative, Croydon, Croydon South, Grant Shapps, Labour, London, London Assembly, Sadiq Khan, Shaun Bailey, Tory
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New leader Ali is set to confront ‘shocking’ council finances
CROYDON IN CRISIS: After winning a Labour group selection battle by 22 votes to 19 over Alisa Flemming, Hamida Ali tells her supporters ‘the hardest graft ever is about to start’. By WALTER CRONXITE, political editor Hamida Ali has no … Continue reading
Posted in 2022 council elections, Addiscombe West, Alisa Flemming, Alison Butler, Callton Young, Chris Clark, Chris Philp MP, Croydon Central, Croydon Council, Croydon North, Croydon South, Hamida Ali, Ian Parker, Knife crime, Mayor of London, Paul Scott, Sadiq Khan, Sarah Jones MP, Sean Fitzsimons, Steve Reed MP, Tony Newman, Woodside
Tagged Alisa Flemming, Alison Butler, Callton Young, Chris Philp MP, Conservative, Croydon, Croydon Central, Croydon Council, Croydon North, Croydon South, Hamida Ali, Labour, Paul Scott, Sarah Jones MP, Steve Reed OBE, Tony Newman, Tory
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Crowley stands down as Tory opposition leader in Sutton
EXCLUSIVE: Our Sutton reporter CARL SHILTON on the latest leadership change in a south London borough All change! Tim Crowley today became the fourth leader of a Town Hall political group in south London in the past few weeks to … Continue reading
10 tips to help you and others on World Mental Health Day
Tomorrow is World Mental Health Day. Here, ROWENNA DAVIS (left) outlines some of the things which all of us can do to help others, and to help ourselves We need World Mental Health Day more than ever this year. According … Continue reading
Time to reverse the damaging cuts to London’s youth services
CROYDON COMMENTARY: After a decade of austerity, it is long overdue for the government to fund properly the capital’s youth services, says Green Party Mayoral candidate SIAN BERRY London’s youth services are in crisis. Councils have been under pressure to … Continue reading
Posted in London Assembly, London-wide issues, Mayor of London, Sian Berry
Tagged Green Party, Sian Berry, Youth Services
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Walcountian clubmates offer their tributes to shot policeman
The police sergeant killed at Windmill Road custody centre in the early hours of Friday has been named as Matt Ratana, a 54-year-old with 30 years’ service in the Met and who was just weeks away from taking retirement. Ratana … Continue reading
Fire Brigade detect a different kind of smoke at workshop fire
Firefighters on an emergency call-out to a vehicle workshop on Stafford Road in the early hours of this morning encountered more than they bargained for – with a suspected cannabis factory discovered in the building. Four fire engines and around … Continue reading
Posted in London Fire Brigade, Waddon
Tagged London Fre Brigade, Stafford Road, Waddon
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London should be placed in covid lockdown now, says Khan
Croydon and the rest of London should be placed in lockdown as soon as tomorrow to stop the spread of covid-19, Sadiq Khan, the Mayor of London, has warned. With large areas of the north of England being placed into … Continue reading
Posted in Boris Johnson, Health, London-wide issues, Sadiq Khan
Tagged coronavirus, Covid-19, Croydon, London, Mayor, Sadiq Khan
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LibDem campaign disarray over candidate’s antisemitic tirade
Well, that didn’t last long. Geeta Sidhu-Robb has been forced out of the race to be the Liberal Democrats’ candidate for London Mayor after it was revealed she had delivered a public antisemitic tirade in 1997, when a Tory parliamentary … Continue reading
LibDems finally reveal candidates to run for London Mayor
The human dynamos who run the Liberal Democrat party today finally got round to naming their candidates for selection to be the fourth-placed finisher in next May’s London Mayoral election – a mere six weeks after their original choice announced … Continue reading
Train on a free course to help others suffering the covid blues
The council is offering a two-day online course for residents to become mental health “first aiders”. Funded by Transport for London and the council, the course is in response to findings from charity Mind which showed the scale of the … Continue reading
Loss of free travel for children is another Tory-made mess
CROYDON COMMENTARY: The Tory transport minister is ‘stealing free travel from young Londoners just when they need it most’. By CAROLINE RUSSELL, the Green Party London Assembly Member Schools are now going back but nobody can yet tell under-18s in … Continue reading
Met Police suffers £1bn ‘daylight robbery’ from Tories
The capital is being “ludicrously short-changed” by the anti-London Tory government, after it received as much as four times less funding from the government’s Safer Streets scheme than smaller regions of the country with lesser amounts of crime, according to … Continue reading
