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Roll out the barrels for a festival of LocAles: Oct 10-12
ROBERT CANNING previews Croydon’s answer to Oktoberfest next week Croydon’s beer drinkers will soon be raising their glasses at the 20th annual local Real Ale Festival, being staged at Wallington Hall, Stafford Road, from next Thursday. Around 60 real ales … Continue reading
Posted in Activities, Pubs, Robert Canning
Tagged Brighton Road, Cask ale, Croydon, CroydonMinster, London, South Norwood, Wallington Hall, West Croydon station
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Hot dogs help keep Haling Park friends in the shade
This year’s Friends of Haling Grove Dog Show saw pets from across South Croydon dragging their owners to the annual contest in the park on Saturday, the hottest day of the year so far. The Friends of Haling Grove come … Continue reading
Posted in Activities, Community associations, Friends of Haling Grove
Tagged Brighton Road, Croydon, Dog, Duppas Hill, South Croydon, Whitgift School
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Purley’s £11m hospital scheme sweeps value under the carpet
CROYDON COMMENTARY: The much-needed redevelopment work at Purley Hospital may not be money well-spent. And DAVID CALLAM is not surprised Work continues on the £11 million refurbishment of Purley Hospital. The new-look NHS facility will re-open later this year in … Continue reading
Posted in David Callam, Health, Purley, Purley Hospital
Tagged Brighton Road, Croydon, Croydon University Hospital, Hospital, London, National Health Service, NHS, South London
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GPs ditch anti-smoking service due to “unachievable” targets
Cuts in health spending have prompted one South Croydon NHS doctors’ surgery to withdraw two key services, issuing an angrily worded leaflet decrying “unachievable” targets and saying that the government-imposed changes could be “detrimental to patient care”. The Parkside Group … Continue reading
Posted in Croydon Council, Health
Tagged Brighton Road, Croydon, Croydon Council, Department of Health, England, London, London Borough of Croydon, NHS
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Coulsdon residents call for more school places and new library
A Coulsdon residents’ group has called on the council to ensure that a new primary school is provided to cope with the anticipated increase in roll numbers as a result of developing nearly 700 family homes on the site of … Continue reading
Earl of Eldon stages music festival: May 26
For a second year, South Croydon’s Earl of Eldon pub is staging a music festival, on Sunday May 26. Promising 12 bands in 12 hours, the South Croydon Music Festival will run from noon in the pub grounds on the … Continue reading
Posted in Activities, Music, Pubs, South Croydon
Tagged Brighton Road, Croydon, Junction Road, London, London Borough of Croydon, Saturday, South Croydon
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The Sugarloaf, the school and the lost Lawrence connection
What hope for Croydon’s future when so little interest is shown in its past? Local author BRIAN MELICAN on how the area’s links with one of the outstanding novelists of the 20th Century have been ignored, forgotten and … re-developed … Continue reading
Posted in Activities, Art, Education, History, Schools
Tagged BRIAN MELICAN, Brighton Road, Croydon, DH Lawrence, Duppas Hill, Francis Bond Head, John Worthen, London
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Red Deer locals look north for help to rebuff Morrisons
Another landmark Croydon pub is under threat of takeover from a supermarket chain. And our local councillors’ response – where they have bothered to respond – is effectively to shrug their shoulders and say there’s nothing that they can, or … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Community associations, Maria Gatland, Planning, Property, Pubs, Sanderstead, South Croydon, South Croydon Community Association, Steve O'Connell, Tim Pollard, Yvette Hopley
Tagged Brighton Road, London, Maria Gatland, Morrison, Red Deer, South Croydon, Steve O'Connell, Tesco
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Coulsdon cues up to get behind Fu’s snooker challenge
Coulsdon might be a strange place to find a source of support for a player from Hong Kong hoping to make a big impact in snooker’s world championships in Sheffield, writes Ian Lamont. But when Marco Fu steps out into … Continue reading
Posted in Coulsdon, Sport
Tagged Brighton Road, David Gray, Hong Kong, Marco Fu, Matthew Stevens, Terry Griffiths, Tony Drago, Tony Thompson
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Purley residents suspicious as campaign posters disappear
A group of residents in Purley are back on a “war footing”, after what they claim has been heavy-handed treatment from Croydon Council over their on-going campaign against a planning application to build a large hospital on the site of … Continue reading
Ooo errr, missus: Music Hall jokes return to Streatham
Up the A23 in Streatham, the bill-writer for the South London Press must have been on a Frankie Howerd fan club weekend.
Posted in Comedy, Gardening, Local media
Tagged Brighton Road, Croydon, England, Frankie Howerd, London, Recreation and Sports, South London, Streatham
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PR agents sign up Tesco as cut-price festival sponsors
Tesco, the unwitting purveyors of horse meat with a long-time reputation for doing things on the cheap, and now the proud owners of an “express” store in a South Croydon landmark pub despite local opposition have “generously” agreed to sponsor … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Community associations, Croydon Council, Croydon Greens, Croydon South, Environment, Fairfield, Parking, Property, Pubs, Restaurants, South Croydon, Waddon, Whitgift Foundation
Tagged Brighton Road, Croydon, London, London Borough of Croydon, South Croydon, Tesco, White Label, Whitgift Foundation
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Truly, madly… Croydon film club shows art-house demand
If our council was doing its job right, it would have measured the demand among art-house movie goers in Croydon before closing the David Lean Cinema in the Clocktower arts complex 18 months ago. For now the Save the David … Continue reading
Wallander’s not so miserable after seeing Sarah Lund’s jumper
With arts correspondent Bella Bartock entertaining her Wagnerian fantasies at Bayreuth (don’t ask), ANDREW PELLING, Inside Croydon’s contributing editor was sent off to a pre-Edinburgh Festival review at the Scream Lounge What a delight is the Scream Lounge, on Brighton … Continue reading
Posted in Activities, Art, Comedy
Tagged Andrew Pelling, Bayreuth, Brighton Road, Croydon, Edinburgh Festival, London, London Borough of Croydon, YouTube
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Purley’s Got Talent this week highlights Festival build-up
The build-up to the Purley Festival gathers pace this week. After last night’s successful Barn Dance, the first heats of Purley’s Got Talent – you know how that will work – are being staged on Tuesday, June 12. At Christchurch, … Continue reading
Posted in Activities, BRIT School, Comedy, Dance, Music, Purley
Tagged Brighton Road, btinternet.com, Christchurch, Croydon, Got Talent, London, London Borough of Croydon, Purley
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Tesco Town: South End community to meet this Friday
The first meeting of the South End Community Forum takes place this Friday, May 25, when sure to be close to the top of the agenda is the dire threat to local businesses of the decision of the Whitgift Foundation, … Continue reading
Work begins to give Swan & Sugarloaf a new lease of life
Scaffolding went up around the Swan & Sugarloaf pub in South Croydon last week, the first signs that the local landmark is going to be given an overdue fresh lease of life. How a re-opened Swan & Sugarloaf might operate … Continue reading
Films, fiction and a finale fair feature in 2011 Purley Festival
The first Purley Festival gets under way with an opening ceremony at Riddlesdown School (Honister Heights, Purley, Surrey, CR8 1EX) next Monday, June 27, from 11am, when there will be an art exhibition and music from a jazz band, a … Continue reading
Posted in Activities, Art, Purley
Tagged Africa United, BAFTA, Brighton Road, Croydon, Jolly Farmer, Purley Way, Surrey
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Croydon cricket fans face 40% price hike for T20 match
Cricket fans in Croydon are outraged at being charged up to 40 per cent more than standard prices for Surrey’s Twenty20 fixture to be staged at Whitgift School next month. The match between Surrey and Sussex on the evening of … Continue reading
Posted in Cricket, Sport, Whitgift School
Tagged Brighton Road, Croydon, Essex, Oval, Sky Sports, Surrey, Sussex, Whitgift School
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