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Tag Archives: Britain
Roller Derby get their skates on to back Nightwatch
LILY “COOPER” RAE and ALEX “PUNK” CAMPBELL invite you to support a charity fund-raising event this Sunday This Sunday, December 1, a very special Christmas roller derby event is taking place in a tucked-away sports centre in Carshalton – and … Continue reading
Posted in Activities, Charity, Community associations, Croydon Nightwatch, Sport
Tagged Britain, Carshalton, Christmas, Croydon, January 2014, Roller derby, Toulouse, Vice Squad
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Fisher battle through to second day at Rosslyn Park 7s
RUGBY ROUND-UP: John Fisher School‘s senior rugby squad faces a daunting morning today, as the National Schools 7s go into a second day at Rosslyn Park, kicking off at 11am with a game against Rydal Penrhos. The schools 7s season … Continue reading
Posted in John Fisher School, Old Mid-Whitgiftians/Trinity RFC, Old Walcountians, Old Whitgiftians, Purley-John Fisher, Rugby Union, Schools, Sport, Streatham-Croydon RFC, Warlingham RFC, Whitgift School
Tagged Britain, Coleg Llandrillo Cymru, Croydon, England, John Fisher School, London, Solihull School, Wimbledon
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Off with their heads: time to cut back on councillors
CROYDON COMMENTARY: Politics is broken and we need to fix it, says DAVID CALLAM, as he offers some radical solutions to reduce the costs of democracy at the Town Hall and at City Hall Our institutions need some major surgery … Continue reading
Is Boris the man to make prefabs sprout in London?
CROYDON COMMENTARY: DAVID CALLAM muses over the mess our council has made of one of its most important community responsibilities Housing in Croydon is in crisis. A combination of lazy politicians and greedy developers has brought us to a parlous … Continue reading
Crystal Palace tram decision is “disgraceful and inexplicable”
One of the country’s leading transport experts has described Mayor Boris Johnson’s decision not to fulfil his promise to deliver a tram extension to Crystal Palace as “disgraceful and inexplicable”. Christian Wolmar, the author of several books on transport policy … Continue reading
Posted in Boris Johnson, Croydon North, Environment, London-wide issues, Mayor of London, Steve O'Connell, Tramlink, Transport
Tagged Britain, Christian Wolmar, Croydon, Crystal Palace, Labour, London, Mayor
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Where there’s a wheel, there ought to be a way for cyclists
Croydon is scarred by urban motorways that divide the borough, cutting off people from their homes and work. KRISTIAN GREGORY, of the Croydon Cycling Campaign, says it is time to make people more of a priority than cars The picture … Continue reading
Posted in Activities, Community associations, Commuting, Croydon Cycling Campaign, Croydon Ramblers, Cycling, Environment, Health, London-wide issues, Parking, Planning, Schools, Tramlink, Transport, Walks
Tagged Britain, Croydon, Cycling, London, Netherlands, Royal College Street, Tram, Transport
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Ready, set, go: trowels at the ready to bury a bad idea
An initiative by the Royal Horticultural Society inspires SUSAN OLIVER to start thinking how the idea of competition is doing more harm than we think There is a lot of competitions on television these days. Contests involving baking, cooking, singing, … Continue reading
Our council’s “solution” for the economy: tax the unemployed
CROYDON COMMENTARY: Local trades unionist ANDREW FISHER, pictured left, sees a worryingly spiteful trend in social policy in the borough The campaign against welfare is the centrepiece of the coalition government’s policy agenda. It started with the Chancellor George Osborne, … Continue reading
Posted in Council Tax, Croydon Council, Housing, London-wide issues, Woodside
Tagged Britain, Council Tax, David Cameron, George Osborne, Housing Benefit, Labour, London, Pension Credit
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Londoner forced to go to end of the earth in Olympic sacrifice
Ignore the statistics pumped out so far this week about the Olympic Games and Britain’s quest for 48 medals in the coming 16 days of high-octane sporting action. Here’s a set of stats much closer to home: London is a … Continue reading
Posted in 2012 Olympics, London-wide issues, Sport, Swimming
Tagged Blake Aldridge, Britain, Ellen Gandy, London, Olympic, Olympic Games, Tom Daley, Tony Beckley
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Jubilee pageantry reinforces reasons for the Queen’s reign
DIAMOND GEEZER reports from the banks of the Thames, where he had a prime view of Sunday’s Royal Pageant on the river, and offers his own view after 60 years of the reign of Queen Elizabeth II The Jubilee weekend’s … Continue reading
Posted in Activities, Addington, Charity, Church and religions, History, Outside Croydon
Tagged Britain, Buckingham Palace, Clement Attlee, Elizabeth II, London, Queen, Queen Elizabeth, River Thames
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Krugman or Gideon: who’d you trust to get economics right?
It is a simple choice: at a time of the deepest global economic crisis the world has faced, possibly even worse that the Great Depression of the 1930s, whose advice would you take? Would you trust the judgement of two … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Centrale, Health, History, Housing, Libraries, Outside Croydon, Schools, St Helier Hospital
Tagged Britain, Great Depression, Irving Fisher, John Maynard Keynes, Krugman, New York Times, Paul Krugman, United States
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