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Purley Tory Speakman’s Labour past emerges 50 years on
March 31 this year will be the 50th anniversary of the 1966 General Election, when Harold Wilson’s Labour enjoyed a landslide victory over the Conservatives. The BBC has been marking the occasion with a day-long transmission of their election night … Continue reading
Posted in Donald Speakman, Maria Gatland, Purley
Tagged Donald Speakman, Maria Gatland, Purley, South Croydon
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Ahmad to debate with O’Connell on eve of London elections
“After eight years of Boris, London needs a Labour Mayor.” As a motion for debate, it suggests only one answer, though given it is the topic up for discussion in true blue Old Coulsdon, at the Purley and Coulsdon Debating … Continue reading
Posted in Activities, Boris Johnson, Coulsdon, Environment, Kenley, London Assembly, Marina Ahmad, Mayor of London, Purley, Steve O'Connell
Tagged Conservative, Coulsdon, Labour, Marina Ahmad, Purley, Steve O'Connell, Tory
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NHS ‘engagement’ on GP hubs leaves us all with a nose bleed
CROYDON COMMENTARY: Amid the mounting controversy about the effectiveness of the NHS’s 111 phone line service and junior doctors working all hours and over weekends, the local CCG – Clinical Commissioning Group – has been putting forward a case for … Continue reading
Ticket offices at 11 railway stations face possible closure
Ticket offices serving a total of 27 million passengers a year at 11 railway stations in Croydon and Sutton are under threat of closure. Commuters, already fed up with spiraling ticket prices and delayed and over-crowded trains, risk seeing their … Continue reading
Posted in Andrew Pelling, Commuting, Coulsdon, Mayor of London, Norbury, Purley, Sanderstead, Selhurst, Sutton Council, Thornton Heath, Transport, Waddon
Tagged Andrew Pelling, Coulsdon, Coulsdon South, Govia Thameslink, Mayor, Norbury, Purley, Sanderstead, Selhurst, South Croydon, TfL, Thornton Heath, Transport for London, Waddon
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Purley debate gives a couple of subs a bit of a run-out
It’s that time in the football season when “squad players” and those who the manager doesn’t rate and wants to put in the shop window in the hope of getting some transfer interest get a bit of a run-out in … Continue reading
Posted in Activities, Community associations, Coulsdon, Purley
Tagged Coulsdon, Coulsdon and Purley Debating Society, Labour, Purley
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Younger Generation Theatre Group dance workshop, Feb 7
Come and join us at the Younger Generation HQ, St Mark’s Church, Church Road, Woodcote CR8 3QQ, on February 7 for an afternoon of fun and dance.
Posted in Activities, Art, Dance, Purley
Tagged Purley, Younger Generation Theate Group
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Purley Festival pulls the plug on 2016 music in Rotary Fields
There will be no Purley Festival staged on Rotary Fields this year. An announcement on the organisers’ website was posted just before Christmas by the festival’s director, Fiona Lipscombe. The message attempted to compare the event to Glastonbury or Reading … Continue reading
Posted in Community associations, Dance, Music, Purley
Tagged Fiona Lipscombe, Purley, Purley Festival, Rotary Field
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Council seizes vans from operators suspected of major fly-tips
Vans seized by the council after they were connected to conducting illegal tipping may have been owned by groups of travellers who are suspected of dumping mounds of rubbish in Croydon’s parks and open spaces over the past three years. … Continue reading
Posted in Ashburton, Broad Green, Crime, Environment, Fly tipping, Purley, Purley Way, Refuse collection, South Norwood, Stuart Collins, Waddon
Tagged Broad Green, Croydon Council, Fly-tipping, Labour, Purley, South Norwood, Stuart Collins, Waddon
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MP Philp calls meeting on Purley Hospital future, Jan 7
CHRIS PHILP, the MP for Croydon South, on his latest efforts to ensure the continuing services at Purley Hospital I have been calling for restoration of the service level at Purley Hospital’s minor injuries unit for some time. Morning opening … Continue reading
Posted in Chris Philp MP, Coulsdon, Croydon CCG, Croydon South, Health, Kenley, Mayday Hospital, Purley, Purley Hospital, Sanderstead, South Croydon
Tagged Chris Philp MP, Conservative, Croydon CCG, Croydon South, NHS, Purley, Purley Hospital, Tory
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Make a charity splash in the new year with Purley Swimathon
There are still a few lanes available for eager fund-raisers at the 2016 Purley Swimathon on Saturday February 27 and Thursday March 3.
Posted in Activities, Charity, Purley, Purley Pool, Purley Rotary Club, Swimming
Tagged Purley, Purley Pool, Rotary Club
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Ex-UKIP candidate joined Tories after making ‘nuke ISIS’ call
Przemek Skwirczynski, the former UKIP election candidate who has also stood alongside a far-right Holocaust denier in Poland, has been welcomed back into the Conservative Party despite Islamophobic and other extreme views which have even seen him call for western … Continue reading
Posted in 2014 council elections, 2015 General Election, Norbury, Purley
Tagged Conservative, Przemek Skwirczynski, Tory, UKIP, Winston McKenzie
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Loyalty will be up for debate when Philp takes on Benn again
It’s The Posh-Off II: The Re-match. Chris Philp, now the Tory MP for Croydon South, is again to take on The Honorable Emily Benn at the Coulsdon and Purley Debating Society in its first event of 2016, on a somewhat … Continue reading
Don’t panic! ‘Railageddon’ is about to arrive in south London
It’s not just local news websites which are being alarmist about the shut down of a wide range of rail services over the holiday period, beginning as soon as tomorrow evening. The rail companies are getting a bit panicky, too. … Continue reading
Report prompts Skanska to promise to shift Purley lamp post
Where Croydon Council, and its councillors, fail to get results, it seems Inside Croydon helps to deliver required outcomes for residents. The latest example is with the lamp post on Brancaster Lane in Purley, which contractors Skanska managed to plonk … Continue reading
Posted in Croydon Council, Purley, Skanska, Street lighting, Tony Newman
Tagged Conservative, Labour, Purley, Skanska, Tony Newman, Tory
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Boundary change won’t cut £6m cost of top-heavy Town Hall
All change! But as WALTER CRONXITE reports, Croydon’s Labour group won’t be lobbying for any real reform of democracy in the borough, and instead will just shore-up their own self-interest The Croydon Council elections in 2018 will be fought with … Continue reading
Posted in 2018 council elections, Addiscombe West, Ashburton, Bensham Manor, Broad Green, Coulsdon East, Coulsdon Town, Croydon Council, Crystal Palace and Upper Norwood, Fairfield, Fieldway, Heathfield, Kenley, New Addington, Norbury, Purley, Sanderstead, Selhurst, Selsdon & Ballards, Shirley North, South Croydon, South Norwood, Thornton Heath, Tony Newman, Waddon, West Thornton, Woodside
Tagged Addiscombe West, Conservative, Coulsdon, Croydon Central, Croydon Council, Croydon North, Croydon South, Crystal Palace and Upper Norwood, Labour, Liberal Democrats, New Addington, South Norwood, Thornton Heath, Tony Newman, Tory, Waddon
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Ex-UKIP candidate calls for vigilantes to wipe out ‘vermin’
A member of the Conservative Party, who was a General Election candidate in a south London constituency just six months ago, has called for mass vigilantism across Europe and for people to take up firearms and “pre-emptively cleanse the UK … Continue reading
Posted in 2015 General Election, Andy Tarrant, Church and religions, Crime, Norbury, Policing, Purley, Sadiq Khan
Tagged Conservative, Croydon Council, Tory, UKIP, Winston McKenzie
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Tory MP threatened Tesco with shoppers’ strike over BID bid
Croydon South’s new Conservative MP has admitted that he threatened the local branch of the country’s biggest retailers with a shoppers’ strike if they did not support a business scheme he was backing. Tory Chris Philp told Tesco in Purley … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Chris Philp MP, Croydon South, Parking, Purley, Purley BID
Tagged Chris Philp MP, Conservative, Croydon South, Purley, Purley BID, Tesco, Tory
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Skanska’s ‘lightbulb moment’ over Purley street lights
There have been plentiful and regular complaints about the quality of workmanship and service from some of the council’s out-sourced contractors, whether it be the shabby My Croydon App mishap, the trail of rubbish left after the bin men have … Continue reading
Posted in Croydon Council, Purley, Skanska, Street lighting
Tagged Croydon Council, Croydon South, London Borough of Croydon, Purley, Skanska
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Veteran car drivers won’t be stopping for a Croydon cuppa
As celebrities, such as Chris Evans, the new presenter of Top Gear, sports stars and minor royals get themselves ready for tomorrow’s London to Brighton Veteran Car Rally, Inside Croydon has heard from one disgruntled south London trader who has … Continue reading
Picture prizes on offer for spectators at Veteran Car Run
There’s a prize on offer to spectators lining the route for the best pictures shared on Twitter and Instagram that capture this Sunday’s London to Brighton Veteran Car Run, as it pootles its way from Hyde Park, through the length … Continue reading
Posted in Activities, Norbury, Purley, Thornton Heath, Transport
Tagged Coulsdon, Croydon, London to Brighton Veteran Car Rally, Norbury, Purley, Thornton Heath
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Council’s chasm of unaccountability grows wider each day
CROYDON COMMENTARY: Our borough’s elected representatives are being increasingly marginalised by a system that places huge power in the hands of a handful of unaccountable officials, writes STEVEN DOWNES Make the most of it at the Town Hall tonight. For … Continue reading
Posted in "Hammersfield", Bernard Weatherill House, Business, Cane Hill, Chris Philp MP, Council Tax, Croydon Council, Croydon South, Housing, Jo Negrini, Jon Rouse, Julie Belvir, Maggie Mansell, Nathan Elvery, Norbury, Oasis Academy, Paul Scott, Planning, Pubs, Purley, South Norwood, Stuart Collins, Thornton Heath, Tim Pollard, Tony Newman, URV, Whitgift Centre, Woodside
Tagged Chris Philp MP, Conservative, Coulsdon, Croydon Council, Hammersfield, Hammerson, Labour, Norbury, Purley, South Norwood, Thornton Heath, Tony Newman, Tory, Westfield, Woodside
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Talk on pensioners’ rights at Purley group, Nov 3
The next meeting of the Purley and District Townswomen’s Guild will feature a special talk from Barry Todman, of the National Pensioners’ Alliance, on pensioners’ rights. The meeting will take place at the Purley United Reformed Church, Brighton Road, from … Continue reading
Colour-coded divisions over Black History Month events
It surely cannot be deliberate, since Croydon Council’s press and publicity department is too ham-fisted to organise itself so well. But if anyone ever wanted a demonstration of how we live in a divided borough, then they need only refer … Continue reading
Posted in Activities, Art, Badsha Quadir, Black History Month, Chris Philp MP, Coulsdon, Croydon Council, Croydon South, Dance, Education, Fairfield Halls, History, Kenley, London-wide issues, Mario Creatura, Music, Purley, Steve O'Connell, Theatre
Tagged Badsha Quadir, BHM, Black History Month, Chris Philp MP, Conservative, Coulsdon, Croydon, Croydon Council, Kenley, Mario Creatura, Purley, Simon Brew, Steve O'Connell, Tory
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