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Week-long disruption to rail services across south London
It is half-term week, which for rail passengers means a whole load of disruption to their regular services across south London. Signalling upgrade work started at the weekend and is due to continue until this Friday, November 1, “which will … Continue reading
It’s looking like Howard’s way for LibDems’ mayoral candidate
WALTER CRONXITE, our veteran political correspondent, reports on an unusual occurance for Croydon: the local Liberal Democrats getting ahead of the game While Councillor Rowenna Davis twiddles her thumbs and waits patiently for the Labour Party “machine” to crank into … Continue reading
Posted in 2026 Croydon Mayor election, Andrew Pelling, Claire Bonham, Croydon Council, Crystal Palace and Upper Norwood, Mayor Jason Perry, Richard Howard, Rick Howard, Rowenna Davis, Uncategorized, Waddon
Tagged Andrew Pelling, Claire Bonham, Conservative, Coulsdon, Croydon, Croydon Council, Crystal Palace and Upper Norwood, Labour, LibDems, Liberal Democrats, London Borough of Croydon, Mayor Jason Perry, Richard Howard, Rick Howard, Rowenna Davis, Steve Reed OBE, Tony Newman, Tory, Waddon
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‘I don’t think it’s helpful you ask questions like this’ squirms MP
Pity the poor people of Streatham (and Croydon North), who this morning discovered that they have elected as their MP – effectively given him a job for life – someone who thinks ignorance is some kind of acceptable excuse for … Continue reading
Windrush memories laid out on West Croydon Overground line
Transport for London is marking Black History Month with the release of a Windrush episode of its Mind The Gap podcast series about the inspiration behind the new names for the London Overground lines. The Windrush line is the name … Continue reading
Police use stop and search powers after George Street stabbing
The Metropolitan Police had Croydon town centre on lockdown last night, issuing a Section 60 order following a stabbing on George Street earlier in the day. Shortly before 2pm, a 23-year-old man was stabbed in the neck outside the George … Continue reading
Posted in Broad Green, Crime, Fairfield, Knife crime, Uncategorized
Tagged Croydon, Drug gangs, Drugs crime, Drugs gangs, George Street, knife crime, Metropolitan Police
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Reed took £1,786 football tickets from water company owners
Croydon’s longest-serving MP, Steve Reed OBE, is the latest cabinet member to be named in the mounting scandal around the new Labour government’s apparent endless capacity for accepting gifts and freebies from big-money donors, industry interests and lobbyists. Reed, now … Continue reading
That was the writer that was: Addiscombe girl called the tunes
SUNDAY SUPPLEMENT: A 20th Century star of musical theatre from Croydon was Caryl Brahms. DAVID MORGAN highlights the life and career of this now too often forgotten and overlooked writer Fairfield Halls has hosted an incredible variety of shows over … Continue reading
Posted in Addiscombe East, Addiscombe West, Art, David Morgan, History, Music, Theatre, Uncategorized
Tagged Addiscombe, BBC, Bernard Levin, Caryl Brahms, David Morgan, David Nobbs, Dennis Potter, Doris Caroline Abrahams, Frank Muir, John Cleese, Keith Waterhouse, Kenneth Tynan, Ned Sherrin, Peter Cook, Richard Ingrams, Roald Dahl, Shakespeare in Love, SJ Simon, That Was The Week That Was, Too Dirty For The Windmill
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Police drugs raid on Church Road sees three men sentenced
Three men from what the Metropolitan Police call “a Croydon-based drugs ring” have been found guilty and handed sentences of up to 12 years in prison. Daniel Griffin, 25, of Church Road in Croydon Old Town, was sentenced to 12 … Continue reading
Mitcham killing: police failed to deliver the ‘complete picture’
Three men were sentenced at the Old Bailey yesterday for the April 2023 Mitcham Common killing of Tyrese Miller, with the Metropolitan Police forced to concede that the outcome of the trial failed to provide the victim’s family “with the … Continue reading
Disabled people feel the impact of years of damaging division
CROYDON COMMENTARY: What lay behind the series of riots and civil disorder which erupted across the country this month, and saw the town centre on high alert? Disability rights campaigner PAULA PETERS offers her perspective At last month’s General Election, … Continue reading
Check out rail operator’s ‘Blue Wag’ guide for your dog walks
Govia Thameslink, the operators of Southern, Gatwick Express and Thameslink trains which serve East Croydon, Norwood Junction and Purley and Coulsdon stations, has produced a guide to dog-friendly travel, to encourage pet owners to broaden their horizons for themselves and … Continue reading
Whitgift’s latest England Test cricketer could be the best yet
It was easy to overlook, in the week following a General Election, when he made his cricket debut at a Lord’s Test in which James Anderson bowed out of the international game and his Surrey teammate Gus Atkinson took 12 … Continue reading
Perry admits he has failed in begging letter to Labour’s Rayner
With bail-outs since 2021 of £417m, Croydon’s executive Mayor says that he cannot deliver ‘balanced’ budgets, as he asks the new government to do what his chums in the previous Conservative government refused to do: write off part of the … Continue reading
Posted in Council Tax, Croydon Council, Improvement Board, Jo Negrini, Katherine Kerswell, London-wide issues, Mayor Jason Perry, Section 114 notice, Tony McArdle, Uncategorized
Tagged Angela Rayner MP, Conservative, Council Tax, Croydon, Croydon Council, Jo Negrini, Labour, Levelling Up, London Borough of Croydon, Mayor Jason Perry, MHCLG, Mike Fisher, Ministry of Housing Communities and Local Government, Section 114, Section 114 Notice, Tory
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Garrod named as Greens’ election candidate for Croydon South
The local Green Party will be hoping that its parliamentary candidate for Croydon South is as industrious, and productive, as the bees she has helped nurture in a wildlife project she helped to establish at Heathfield House. Elaine Garrod has … Continue reading
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Tagged Chris Philp MP, Conservative, Croydon, Croydon South, Elaine Garrod, Green Party, Greens, Heathfield House, Tory
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Amnesty International Lindy Hop Dance, Ruskin House, Nov 25
Posted in Dance, Ruskin House, Uncategorized
Tagged Amnesty Croydon, Amnesty International, Ruskin House
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680,000 responses make ticket offices biggest consultation
More people participated in the consultation over the threat of closure to the nation’s railway ticket offices than in any previous public consultation held in this country. In all, two travel watchdogs received a combined 680,000 responses from commuters and … Continue reading
Posted in Commuting, East Croydon, London Assembly, London-wide issues, Transport, Uncategorized
Tagged #SaveOurTicketOffices, Conservative, Coulsdon, Croydon, Department for Transport, DfT, East Croydon station, London, London Assembly, London TravelWatch, Mick Lynch, Purley, RMT, Tory
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New panel established to help care leavers set up homes
Young people leaving care in Croydon are to receive extra help from the council to find a safe, secure and affordable home when they move to independent living. Croydon looks after more children and young people than most other councils … Continue reading
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Town centre’s skyscrapers are ‘kind of psychological pollution’
CROYDON COMMENTARY: Our report that US build-to-rent developer Graystar, who is behind the building of two pairs of tall towers at East Croydon, has now acquired another town centre site has caused concern for reader LEWIS WHITE Something about these … Continue reading
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Kerswell culls 58 more jobs as council wrestles with budget
CROYDON IN CRISIS: Struggling to cut another £38m from its already trimmed spending, council chiefs’ response is to make more frontline workers redundant. By our Town Hall correspondent, KEN LEE Croydon’s cash-strapped council is struggling to make the further multi-million-pound … Continue reading
