Category Archives: Outside Croydon

Davey, Pidgeon, Umunna all cave-in over Twitter smears

Posted on December 5, 2019 by

CARL SHILTON on how support for the Sutton and Cheam LibDem candidate’s nasty smear campaign started to evaporate, following challenges through formal complaints and threats of libel action It started yesterday, around noon time. The first of the offending social … Continue reading →

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Hina Bokhari: election candidate with past shrouded in mystery

Posted on December 3, 2019 by

CARL SHILTON checks out the credentials of the controversial Liberal Democrat candidate seeking to win Sutton and Cheam from the Conservatives Hina Bokhari, the Liberal Democrat General Election candidate for Sutton and Cheam who has been accused of libel during … Continue reading →

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Threats of libel action as Sutton election campaign turns nasty

Posted on December 3, 2019 by

EXCLUSIVE: Chuka Umunna, Jo Swinson, Caroline Lucas, even Bianca Jagger, have all taken at face value allegations made by a Liberal Democrat General Election candidate, and so now could now be dragged into a bitter legal action. Our Sutton investigations … Continue reading →

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Wintry Thames towpath walk that’s like entering another world

Posted on November 23, 2019 by

WANDLE WANDERER: Croydon’s own river, the Wandle, eventually reaches the Thames itself, which provides a multitude of possible walks. Here, KEN TOWL sets off for Richmond to see what the towpath has to offer With friends visiting from Hackney and … Continue reading →

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College building in park could end Crystal Palace tram scheme

Posted on November 20, 2019 by

Any prospect of extending the tram network to Crystal Palace could hit the buffers before its backers even check-in at a platform, if the GLA gets its way. Piece by piece, the Greater London Authority, which has responsibility for the … Continue reading →

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Firkin Fantasy beer festival, The Hope, Carshalton, Oct 31-Nov 2

Posted on October 25, 2019 by
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Calls for Sutton’s CEO to resign over secret letter to Morrison’s

Posted on October 24, 2019 by

Our investigations editor, CARL SHILTON, on an attempted land grab by a council chief executive that has caused anger among councillors in two boroughs – and which has favoured the work of a senior Croydon councillor’s firm of architects There … Continue reading →

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