Category Archives: Surrey

Surrey council fined £7,400 over failures for boy with SEND

Posted on February 16, 2023 by insidecroydon

Croydon is not the only local authority in trouble. Tory-run Surrey County Council has been criticised by the Local Government Ombudsman after a second investigation into its failures to properly support a young boy with special educational needs. The Ombudsman … Continue reading →

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Croydon High ‘shocked’ at death of former head at Epsom

Posted on February 6, 2023 by insidecroydon

Emma Pattison, the headteacher at Epsom College who was discovered dead with her husband and daughter yesterday, had joined the private school in 2022 after six years as head at Croydon High School in Selsdon. Pattison, 45, her husband George, … Continue reading →

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Pro-pollution Dombey re-states Sutton opposition to ULEZ

Posted on February 3, 2023 by insidecroydon

Environment correspondent PAUL LUSHION on the cynical games being played with people’s lives by some of the capital’s third-rate politicians Ruth Dombey, the leader of LibDem-controlled Sutton, today declared war on ULEZ, warning Mayor of London Sadiq Khan that she … Continue reading →

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Coroner confirms woman killed by dogs was from Croydon

Posted on January 31, 2023 by insidecroydon

It was confirmed at the Surrey Coroner’s Court this morning that the professional dog walker killed near Caterham earlier this month was from Croydon. The court had named 28-year-old Natasha Johnston when releasing documents yesterday. Johnston had been walking a … Continue reading →

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Police investigations continuing after Caterham dog attack

Posted on January 14, 2023 by insidecroydon

Police cordons in Caterham were being removed this morning after officers finished forensic work relating to the death of a woman in a dog attack on Thursday. The police have described the woman as being “from London”. There has been … Continue reading →

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Passenger group concerned over Surrey’s cuts to bus routes

Posted on January 6, 2023 by insidecroydon

A public transport group representing passengers in Croydon, Sutton and Surrey has warned against widespread cuts to bus services implied in a consultation conducted by Surrey County Council. Surrey CC failed to consult the East Surrey Transport Committee directly, and … Continue reading →

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Shale Trail walk of resistance, Horse Hill to Brockham, Oct 1

Posted on September 28, 2022 by insidecroydon
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More rail cuts coming down the line thanks to Tory Treasury

Posted on August 29, 2022 by insidecroydon

Funding formula for the country’s biggest railway operator represents  ‘levelling down’ for London, according to a member of one of the largest passenger user groups More Southern and Thameslink railway timetable changes were slipped out last week, just ahead of … Continue reading →

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Oversupply of flats in borough is due to ‘profit over need’

Posted on August 3, 2022 by insidecroydon

CROYDON IN CRISIS: Official government data shows that the council’s build-at-all-cost approach that has blighted parts of the borough has created a glut of over-priced ‘executive apartments’. EXCLUSIVE by STEVEN DOWNES The proliferation of block after block of expensive flats … Continue reading →

Posted in Business, Croydon Council, Epsom and Ewell, Heather Cheesbrough, Housing, Jo Negrini, London-wide issues, Paul Scott, Planning, Surrey, Tandridge District Council | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , | 27 Comments

Surrey course all set for some transatlantic golfing rivalry

Posted on July 27, 2022 by insidecroydon

Foxhills, the golf club and spa resort in Chertsey, is to stage the PGA Cup in September, a Ryder Cup-style team event pitching club professionals from Great Britain and Ireland against their rivals from the United States for the Llandudno … Continue reading →

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Capturing every step of non-league Dorking’s meteoric rise

Posted on May 28, 2022 by insidecroydon

SATURDAY SUPPLEMENT: A former Croydon school teacher has been ever-present in the relentless rise through the divisions of a Surrey non-league club. DAVID MORGAN interviews football photographer Steve O’Sullivan, who took the pictures… Whatever the dramas involving the super-rich footballers … Continue reading →

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Tory government rail cuts cause more commuter misery

Posted on May 11, 2022 by insidecroydon

Conservative ministers might expect us to return to work ‘as normal’, but they’re doing less-than-nothing to provide a transport service at pre-pandemic levels, reports JEREMY CLACKSON, transport correspondent New rail timetables are to be implemented from Monday, with Croydon, Purley … Continue reading →

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Route masters let TfL know what they think of bus changes

Posted on November 30, 2021 by insidecroydon

Our transport correspondent JEREMY CLACKSON takes a closer look at TfL’s proposed changes to 13 routes through Croydon and Sutton, and discovers residents’ groups and ward councillors sceptical about the service reductions London Mayor Sadiq Khan has recently said that … Continue reading →

Posted in Andrew Pelling, Chipstead, Commuting, East Croydon, Kenley, London-wide issues, Norwood Junction, Purley, Purley Way, South Croydon, South Norwood, Surrey, Sutton Council, TfL, Transport, Waddon, West Croydon | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , | 12 Comments

Reshuffle sees Philp shunted sideways to the ‘Ministry of Fun’

Posted on September 17, 2021 by insidecroydon

Political editor WALTER CRONXITE on the unlucky ‘escape’ in the government reshuffle for Croydon’s only Conservative MP Croydon’s only Tory MP has finally made his escape from the clutches of Priti Patel at the Home Office. There are rumours, unconfirmed, … Continue reading →

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Government cuts £100m from budget for new Sutton hospital

Posted on September 2, 2021 by insidecroydon

Plans for a new hospital in Sutton have been hit after the government wrote to the local NHS Trust to advise that they would be cutting their contribution to the £511million build costs by around a quarter. The plans to … Continue reading →

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Whyteleafe league exit raises doubts over property investors

Posted on June 16, 2021 by insidecroydon

The Steven Gerrard Football Academy has tried to distance itself and the eponymous former Liverpool and England captain from any mention in the public outrage caused by two non-league football clubs being forced to quit their home grounds after they … Continue reading →

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Eight walks to encompass Croydon’s boundaries and history

Posted on April 25, 2021 by insidecroydon

Over the course of lockdown, one intrepid geographer has managed to complete the ‘beating of the bounds’ and discover the fascinating history of our parish and civic boundaries, stretching back to Saxon times. Words, pictures and mapping by Dr BEN … Continue reading →

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Singapore-based firm buys up Whyteleafe’s football ground

Posted on February 26, 2021 by insidecroydon

Whyteleafe Football Club’s ground has been bought by a Singapore-based company in a half-million-pound deal which could see the Isthmian League side have to leave their Church Road home. “This could end up finishing the club,” a sports website has … Continue reading →

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Covid outbreak takes seven Surrey fire engines out of service

Posted on August 1, 2020 by insidecroydon

The fire brigade in neighbouring Surrey has been hit by an outbreak of coronavirus which has placed nearly one-third of the county’s full-time fire engines out of service. According to the Fire Brigades Union, the outbreak has occurred after Surrey … Continue reading →

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Tories choose NHS’s birthday to sound death knell for St Helier

Posted on July 4, 2020 by insidecroydon

The Tory government chose the weekend of the 72nd anniversary of the founding of the NHS to sound the death knell for acute services at St Helier Hospital, and at Epsom Hospital in Surrey. A 25-year-long battle to maintain and … Continue reading →

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Shock as leader of council with £1bn property debts is ousted

Posted on June 10, 2020 by insidecroydon

The leader of a local council which has gambled hundreds of millions of pounds on the property market has been ousted by party colleagues, and may now face an independent investigation. No, loyal reader, don’t get too excited just yet… … Continue reading →

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Godstone Road water works bring tears to the eyes of traders

Posted on May 14, 2020 by insidecroydon

Residents and businesses in Purley don’t know whether to laugh or cry as, after stoically enduring nine weeks of covid-19 lockdown, they are now bracing themselves for a two-month closure of a major arterial road. Locals have found out almost … Continue reading →

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South of the border, residents brew up a planning rebellion

Posted on May 8, 2019 by insidecroydon

The Conservatives suffered a near-wipe-out in last week’s council elections held in the usually true blue stockbroker belt of Surrey. Our political editor WALTER CRONXITE has crunched the numbers and found that local issues do matter Croydon’s 70 councillors cost … Continue reading →

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Surrey’s voters face a multi-coloured swapshop at the polls

Posted on May 2, 2019 by insidecroydon

Our political editor, WALTER CRONXITE, checks out some straws in the election wind caused by the Brexit storm, as neighbouring councils hold their elections today Londoners might be spared the bother of going to the polling stations today, but for … Continue reading →

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LibDem councillor who rediscovered herself as an Epsom sort

Posted on May 1, 2019 by insidecroydon

BERTIE WORCESTER-PARK reports on how Monica Coleman, having voted through the incinerator in Sutton, has re-invented herself as a residents’ association candidate in West Ewell to jump on the councillor allowance gravy train in local elections in Surrey tomorrow It’s … Continue reading →

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