Category Archives: Andrew Pelling

Public’s Town Hall questions on Binmageddon get censored

Posted on October 10, 2018 by

KEN LEE, our Town Hall reporter, sat through nearly four hours of Monday’s Town Hall meeting, so that you didn’t have to… A mere 90 days since the last full meeting of the council, and most of the borough’s councillors … Continue reading →

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We don’t want to deselect Progress MP Reed say Momentum

Posted on September 10, 2018 by

Political editor WALTER CRONXITE on backing for Croydon North’s centrist MP from a surprising source Steve Reed OBE must have had a relaxed weekend after he received a ringing endorsement of his position as MP for Croydon North from the … Continue reading →

Posted in Andrew Fisher, Andrew Pelling, Croydon North, Jane Avis, Niro Sirisena, Steve Reed MP, Tony Newman | Tagged , , , , , | Leave a comment

Failing church secondary could re-open to new pupils in 2020

Posted on August 8, 2018 by

GENE BRODIE, our education correspondent, on how the council and the church are planning to re-open a Waddon secondary school – once all its current pupils have left St Andrew’s High could re-open as a church secondary in 2020 – … Continue reading →

Posted in Alisa Flemming, Andrew Pelling, Coombe Wood School, Education, Robert Canning, Schools, St Andrew's, Waddon | Tagged , , , , , | Leave a comment

Politicians score own goals on the World Cup bandwagon

Posted on July 4, 2018 by

Croydon’s Second Division politicians showed themselves all-too-keen to bask in the reflected glory of England’s World Cup penalty shoot-out success over Colombia last night. They may be dribbling into tricky territory, though. While it is an urban myth that Harold … Continue reading →

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Canning rejects new job after being dropped as cabinet deputy

Posted on May 25, 2018 by

Political editor WALTER CRONXITE reports on the fall-out from the latest round of patronage for Tony’s cronies Tony Newman’s usual tactic of using public money patronage to keep the support of his Labour council colleagues appears to have been less … Continue reading →

Posted in Andrew Pelling, Callton Young, Croydon Council, Pat Ryan, Patsy Cummings, Paul Scott, Robert Canning, Tony Newman | Tagged , , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

Pollard: Losing on planning legal appeals is ‘money well spent’

Posted on April 17, 2018 by

ELECTION COUNTDOWN: Our eager Town Hall reporter, KEN LEE, spent the evening at a debate in Old Coulsdon, so that you didn’t have to Not content with overseeing the publication of an uncosted local election manifesto that contains at least … Continue reading →

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More questions that Negrini blocked from council meetings

Posted on March 27, 2018 by

As we suspected, Jo Negrini’s censorship of the questions that she is willing to answer stretches far and wide – and it is not just the Council Tax-payers who get treated with contempt. Ahead of last night’s council meeting – … Continue reading →

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