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Mystery after Grade II-listed Leslie Arms is pulled from auction

Auctioneer Swindells claims the landmark pub was never in his company’s catalogue, as Ansari-linked property fails to sell for third time in as many months. EXCLUSIVE by STEVEN DOWNES The Leslie Arms, the Grade II-listed Victorian landmark building in Addiscombe … Continue reading →

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Music at The Oval Tavern, Addiscombe, through Oct. Free entry

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Bricks, ghosts and the Northern line all in the Lit’s new season

Next month sees the start of the latest season of talks and readings at St Mildred’s Literary Society in Addiscombe, continuing a near-century-old tradition. “The Lit” was founded in 1934 and today, from October to March, holds its (non-religious) meetings … Continue reading →

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Councillors in plea to Wetherspoons: Dear Tim, buy our pub!

For sale: one long-neglected, heritage-listed Victorian boozer, likely to require millions of pounds to put right. For the third time in four months, the Leslie Arms is up for auction. And Labour councillors have appealed to pub chains to show … Continue reading →

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Addiscombe locals suspicious as fire destroys heritage house

“Owners and developers should be held responsible when something like this happens.” That was the quick take of one concerned resident yesterday, which was typical of the angry and saddened reactions of many, as firefighters continued to damp down the … Continue reading →

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Music at The Oval Tavern, Addiscombe, through Oct. Free entry

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Canning and Clyde RA charity quiz night, Clyde Hall, Oct 3

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Coughlans’ first bakers’ shop in £5m property portfolio sell-off

EXCLUSIVE by STEVEN DOWNES The bakers’ shop that the Coughlan family first opened on London Road in 1937, and the Thornton Heath commercial bakery, offices and warehouse of the once-thriving retail business, have all been put up for sale as … Continue reading →

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Blues at The Oval, Sunday evenings in Sep and Oct, free entry

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MP Philp’s Green Belt petition slammed as ‘scaremongering’

‘Croydon’s Green Belt under threat!’ was the deliberately alarmist headline on a mass email from the Croydon South MP last week. Some have described it as ‘reckless scaremongering’. Others have called it ‘outright lies’. BARRATT HOLMES, housing correspondent, puts down … Continue reading →

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Canning and Clyde RA charity quiz night, Clyde Hall, Oct 3

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There’s no dough to reopen six former Coughlans bread shops

EXCLUSIVE by STEVEN DOWNES At least six former branches of Coughlans, the bakers business which wasn’t making enough dough and went into voluntary liquidation earlier this summer, will not be re-opening under the branding of the Gloucestershire-based business that acquired … Continue reading →

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Blues at The Oval, Sunday evenings in Sep and Oct, free entry

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20th anniversary Apple Day, Addiscombe Railway Park, Sep 12

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20th anniversary Apple Day, Addiscombe Railway Park, Sep 12

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Blues at The Oval: Two-Gun Mathilda, Sun Aug 30, free entry

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Kit Packham’s One Jump Ahead, The Oval Tavern, Sun Aug 23

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Buskers Barbecue Festival, The Oval Tavern, Sat Aug 22

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10,000 turn out for astronomical society’s solar eclipse events

The Croydon Astronomical Society estimates that close to 10,000 people turned out on Wednesday evening across three special gatherings that they organised to view – safely – the solar eclipse. This week’s phenomenon is reckoned to be a once-in-a-lifetime event, … Continue reading →

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Customer care? With Thames Water, all you get is an AI shrug

After the Teevan Road burst main, when residents in Addiscombe went to fill the kettle or take a shower yesterday, this is the sort of response that they got from a privatised utility company that pays £1m ‘golden hellos’ to … Continue reading →

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In a drought, Addiscombe suffers flood thanks to Thames Water

PHOTOSTORY: pictures by iC reader THOMAS AELBRECHT. Words by our failing utilities correspondent, JR HARTLEY The road had already been dug up. August, after all, is when so many roads get dug up. It’s supposed to help reduce disruption. But … Continue reading →

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Gloucestershire bakery business in rescue deal for Coughlans

EXCLUSIVE by STEVEN DOWNES The majority of Coughlans bakers’ shops will be re-opening under a new name, after liquidators took less than a month to find a buyer for the long-established Croydon business. The 175 Coughlans staff who were notified … Continue reading →

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Ansari’s £90m property empire in collapse as receivers move in

In the latest sign of difficulties for businesses in Croydon, one of the borough’s biggest developers and landlords – a political donor to Sadiq Khan and Yvette Cooper in the past – is being forced to sell several properties. EXCLUSIVE … Continue reading →

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Croydon’s first peregrine falcons fledge from landmark building

For the first time, peregrine falcons have successfully bred in central Croydon, on a ledge of No1 Croydon, the landmark building overlooking the tram lines and bus station at East Croydon, one of the country’s busiest railway stations. The London … Continue reading →

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Perry challenge to Khan: ‘Croydon’s Green Belt is sacrosanct’

Jason Perry, Croydon’s failed Mayor, has put himself on a collision course with Lord Sadiq Khan and City Hall over proposals in the draft London Plan to build hundreds of homes on the borough’s Green Belt. “Whilst I am Mayor, … Continue reading →

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