Norbury on fire: it took 100 firefighters four hours to get a grass blaze under control yesterday – the cause is now subject of a police investigation
Police investigation underway into causes of the large blaze, which Fire Brigade says threatened to spread to ‘a whole street of houses’
Croydon parks friends groups and volunteers who help out around some of the borough’s open spaces and beauty spots are probably hoping for a decent dousing of rain to avoid suffering the fate of school playing field in Norbury yesterday, which needed 100 firefighters to deal with a grass fire.
Around 35 nearby homes were affected, with nearly 20 residents needing to be evacuated as a precaution, as the fire caught hold across 17 acres of wasteland, shrubs and open space near Turle Road. Continue reading
‘Travel misery’ won’t be over in south London any time soon. After a week of disruption on rail and the Tube, with airline strikes still to come, ANDREW FISHER, pictured left, appraises next week’s industrial action on Croydon’s Trams
Having broken the borough’s political duopoly by winning council seats at the Town Hall elections last month, the Liberal Democrats and Greens will have both taken great encouragement from the results of yesterday’s two parliamentary by-elections, where the Tories lost seats in Tiverton and Honiton in Devon and in Wakefield, Yorkshire.
With nearly two-thirds of people in Croydon reporting that their mental health and wellbeing was affected by the covid pandemic, the counselling service located on the High Street in South Croydon, 
A Croydon-based charity that works to reduce youth knife crime has been forced to issue a public statement to distance itself from aggressive fund-raisers who are accused of harassing shoppers and passers-by on high streets across the country – though not in Croydon.
The incident was one of at least four stabbings in Croydon on Tuesday.
Croydon Council, the local authority that just a few weeks ago put up its council rents by 4.1per cent and took away Council Tax Support from 20,000 of the borough’s poorest households, has today announced that it is to hand out £3million to support “residents in greatest need”.
Jason Perry, the £81,000 per year part-time Mayor of Croydon, is giving Axis – the repairs contractors at the centre of the Regina Road council flats scandal – an additional year of work from the council, likely to cost the borough’s tax-payers at least £20million.
This Wednesday, the council cabinet will be asked to rubber-stamp a proposal that the Town Hall adopts the Croydon Residents’ Charter, drawn up by Yaw John Boateng, Les Parry and Kim Wakeley of the Croydon Council tenants and leaseholders panel. 
