Tag Archives: Bernard Weatherill

No Access Croydon: council moves to Bernard Wetherill House

Your Council Tax goes up next week, to record levels, and chief exec Katherine Kerswell’s salary has now risen to £204,000 at the cash-strapped council. But as Kerswell wields the axe to more jobs in her drive for a “Digital … Continue reading

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Switch to Shirley church gets choir all back under one roof

By PETER GILLMAN For some of the borough’s music groups, there is the beginnings of a return to “normality”, however slowly. The Croydon Male Voice Choir has managed to get back to indoor rehearsing. After months when only a handful … Continue reading

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“No service will be untouched” in further cuts, says CEO

Maybe it is the “interim” element of the title that gives Nathan Elvery a touch of impermanence as Croydon’s chief executive, a bit like Rafa Benitez, the unloved and unappreciated “interim” manager at Chelsea football club. Or maybe, as a … Continue reading

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Council to spend £1m to furnish its new headquarters

Croydon Council is spending nearly £1 million on furniture for its new headquarters, Inside Croydon has discovered. According to an official document passed to Inside Croydon, our council has budgeted to spend £900,000 on furniture for the PSDH – or … Continue reading

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Croydon’s MPs await news of a game of musical seats

This week, former Croydon Central MP ANDREW PELLING looks at what the Boundary Commission might have in store for our present three Parliamentary constituencies when it publishes its report tomorrow Time to get out the anoraks. No, not to deal … Continue reading

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