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Report: sexual health services for teens must improve
Croydon’s teenagers will have the opportunity to advise on how sexual health services can meet their needs, following a report published today by Healthwatch Croydon. Croydon has some of the highest rates of abortions, repeat abortions, sexually transmitted infections (STIs) … Continue reading
Scott’s ‘secretive’ meeting with the gentrifiers of Hackney
It’s nearly one month since Paul Scott, the councillor for Woodside ward and part of the Croydon clique which controls the Labour group at the Town Hall, staged a secretive meeting to discuss development schemes for the area. Since when, … Continue reading
Two-thirds of Croydon Guardian staff to quit the paper
This week’s edition of the local free newspaper, the Croydon Guardian, could be the last seen in the borough for a while. It will certainly be the very last newspaper on which journalists with good contacts and an understanding of … Continue reading
Brick by Brick’s criminal offence over company records
BARRATT HOLMES, our housing reporter, on a worrying lack of accountability at the Labour-run Croydon Council’s housing company Brick by Brick, the council chief executive Jo Negrini’s house-building brainchild, has broken the law and committed a criminal offence after barely … Continue reading
Newman spends six-figure sum to get back on his bike
Croydon will be staging an evening’s cycling racing this summer after all, as council leader Tony Newman and his cabinet authorised the spending of an estimated six-figure sum for the town centre to host a stage of the Pearl Izumi … Continue reading
Any way the wind blows, doesn’t really matter to Tory Thomas
If anyone sees Croydon Tory councillor Phil Thomas, can they give him a copy of this chart please? The chart shows how the fall-out – because that’s what it will be – of toxic particulates from the Beddington Lane incinerator … Continue reading
Winston Watch: McKenzie loses yet another vote
Will anyone at all lift a phone and make a premium-rate call to “save” Winston McKenzie? Follow our live blog, where STEVEN DOWNES is looking forward to having to watch Celebrity Big Brother for one last time Day four in … Continue reading
Tory MP Philp is quick to curry favour with local party donor
Here in Croydon in 2015, it is still not what you know, but who you know that counts. What other conclusion can any reasonable person reach from discovering that Chris Philp, Croydon South’s new MP, has nominated the Royal Tandoori … Continue reading
No head, no leader, no planning: doubts over Free School
Plans for a three-form entry primary Free School on Highbury Avenue appear to be in some disarray, with no head teacher yet appointed just seven months before the school is supposed to open, no planning approval granted to build on … Continue reading
Trinity face trip to the champions to stay in national cup
RUGBY ROUND-UP: For the second successive year, Whitgift have been knocked out of the national schools’ rugby cup by Hampton School, losing 11-6 in a hard-fought contest in South Croydon yesterday afternoon. Probably most galling of all, Whitgift had led … Continue reading
Defeats put MidWives and Warlingham in drop zones
RUGBY ROUND-UP: Off the back of the “worst performance of the season” a fortnight earlier, Warlingham travelled home from to Medway last Saturday having been dealt another crushing blow, this time a 29-5 defeat. They now stand a vulnerable-looking 10th … Continue reading
Woodside Labour councillor Jewitt fails to win selection
The Croydon Labour party’s selection process for candidates to stand at next year’s Town Hall elections claimed its first casualty on Wednesday night, when Karen Jewitt, councillor for Woodside ward, failed to be selected. Jewitt has been a Croydon councillor … Continue reading
Black-out: Is Parkes exit a sign of culture at council?
The rapid departure from Taberner House last week of Croydon Council HR chief Pam Parkes prompted one insider to contact Inside Croydon to point out: “Given the make-up of the population of the borough as a whole, the director level … Continue reading
Croydon stops LibDem Paddick from using a public library
A planned meeting by Brian Paddick at the under-threat Upper Norwood Library at lunchtime today had to be hastily re-arranged after Croydon Council refused the LibDem London Mayor candidate permission to hold his election event on public premises. A spokesman … Continue reading
Sprint to the finish, not floored by break-in or cash crunch
Last month, SAIF BONAR told of how he started in his quest to find premises in Croydon for a digital economy, post-riots new business. Here, he picks up the story of Matthews Yard, of budget short-falls and attempted break-ins – … Continue reading
Croydon is turning green this Saturday for charity
Croydon Green Fair is being staged at the Garwood Foundation at 27 Bramley Hill, South Croydon, this Saturday, May 28. To be opened at 10.30am by the new Mayor of Croydon (hopefully he won’t be too hungover after his champagne … Continue reading
Selhurst Park has massive role to play in Palace’s future
GOLDIE, our man in the eerie above Selhurst Park, looks behind the gushing headlines about Palace’s proposed move, and assesses the possibilities of the £90m new nest Crystal Palace never do things the easy way. Only we could just manage … Continue reading
Watch out Croydon, here comes Boris!
Croydon’s central role in the London election landscape is demonstrated again by Boris Johnson’s question and no-answer session to be held in the borough this Tuesday. London Mayor Johnson seems to use Croydon as his default location whenever crime is … Continue reading
Campaign to save Croydon’s museums and heritage collection
The Croydon Guardian has launched a campaign to try to salvage the borough’s archive and history collections in the face of the Council’s latest cuts.
