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Jobs fair at Centrale helped to get dozens back into work
More than one-third of Croydon residents attending a jobs fair at Centrale shopping centre went away clutching an offer of work in their hands. The jobs fair, organised by the Department of Work and Pensions and staged at the end … Continue reading
Street dancer shows its hip to be jabbed to help your family
A street dancer from Croydon said his fear of needles prevented him from coming forward to get his first covid-19 jab. Shandy South, 54, who has worked across the world as a hip hop dancer, said he got his first … Continue reading
The day I signed up with the NHS in the fight against covid
What’s it like on the frontline of the pandemic battle? ROBERT WARD found out yesterday, when he volunteered for duties at one of the borough’s largest vaccination centres It’s been a while since I set a 6.30am alarm, but needs … Continue reading
Posted in Centrale, Health, Robert Ward, Selsdon and Addington Village
Tagged Centrale, coronavirus, Covid-19, Croydon, Robert Ward
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Government rolls out 1m daily jabs against Omicron ‘tidal wave’
The government is calling in the army in an effort to double the number of covid booster jabs delivered to more than 1million per day between now and the New Year in a desperate effort to limit the spread and … Continue reading
Posted in Health, Rachel Flowers
Tagged Boris Johnson, Centrale, coronavirus, Covid-19, Croydon, Croydon Council, Croydon NHS Trust, London Borough of Croydon, Omicron, Rachel Flowers
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Represent Book Festival, Centrale Shopping Centre, Dec 4
Posted in Activities, Art, Centrale, Education, Poetry
Tagged Akitoye Sunday, Centrale, Represent Book Festival
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Winning Women, free dance and sport sessions, Centrale
Posted in Activities, Broad Green, Centrale
Tagged Big Local Broad Green, Broad Green, Centrale, Croydon CVA
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Schoolchildren’s half-term homework is to have their covid jab
Parents and carers can, for the first time, book a covid-19 vaccination for their 12-to-15-year-olds during the schools’ half-term this month using the national booking system. Starting tomorrow, October 23, parents and carers can book an appointment to take their … Continue reading
Posted in Centrale, Health, Rachel Flowers, Schools
Tagged Centrale, coronavirus, Covid-19, Croydon, Croydon Council
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Centrale flips out with £2m adventure park planned for summer
Around 75 jobs will be created by turning unwanted retail space into a ‘family fun centre’ It might not be the whole solution to the sorry plight of Croydon town centre, where a year-long lockdown has compounded storeowners’ troubles with … Continue reading
Posted in "Hammersfield", Business, Centrale
Tagged Centrale, Croydon, Flip Out, Hammersfield, Hammerson
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Shopping centres will put limit on visitors when they reopen
Croydon town centre’s two major shopping malls will reopen for business after the coronavirus lockdown in two weeks’ time, it was confirmed today. But it will not be “business as usual” for a while, as pandemic measures will include controlling … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Centrale, Whitgift Centre
Tagged Centrale, coronavirus, Covid-19, Whitgift Centre
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Next takes up vacant Debenhams space to enter beauty contest
When we reported the demise of Croydon’s Debenhams store yesterday, the question posed was “who might move into the large store space next?” And the answer soon offered up was: Next. Hammerson was able to play hardball over the second … Continue reading
Posted in "Hammersfield", Business, Centrale, Debenhams
Tagged Centrale, Debenhams, Hammerson, Next, The Beauty Hall from Next
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Debenhams administration is another blow to Hammerson
The coronavirus lockdown looks about to claim another casualty, as department store Debenhams announced this morning that it is to call in the financial administrators. It will the second time in a year that Debenhams has gone into administration. The … Continue reading
Posted in "Hammersfield", Business, Centrale, Debenhams, Whitgift Centre
Tagged Centrale, Croydon, Debenhams, Hammersfield, Hammerson, Westfield, Whitgift Centre
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Centrale puts rhymes and reason into Mental Health Day
The Poetry Project is coming to Centrale and the Whitgift shopping centres this week, to help raise awareness of tomorrow’s World Mental Health Day. The two shopping centres will be displaying specially commissioned poems created by poet James McInerney to … Continue reading
Posted in Centrale, Poetry, Whitgift Centre
Tagged Centrale, Whitgift Centre, World Mental Health Day
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Centrale offers £5 to first shoppers who ‘declutter to refresh’
Croydon shoppers are being encouraged to recycle before they refresh their wardrobes, as the Centrale shopping mall in the town centre announces it will host an autumn fashion and beauty event with a difference. “Declutter to Refresh” on October 4-5 … Continue reading
Claim a free book ahead of Whitgift Centre’s storytime
Get your bookmarks at the ready, as the Centrale and Whitgift shopping centres invite you and the little ones to storytime corner this Friday, September 6, on National Read a Book Day. Popular children’s author Helen Peters will be reading … Continue reading
Posted in Activities, Business, Centrale, Education, Whitgift Centre
Tagged Centrale, Whitgift Centre
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Centrale transformed into a Wonderland for little superheroes
Centrale shopping centre is treating families to a range of children-friendly activities this summer, starting this week in the central atrium for exclusive workshops and games in Alice’s Wonderland. Families are invited to experience this “Through the Keyhole” fantasy experience … Continue reading
Workers fear House of Fraser store’s lease won’t be renewed
Our retailing correspondent MT WALLETTE reports on suggestions that House of Fraser is considering the status of its Centrale lease There’s growing concern among staff and workers at one of Croydon’s last remaining department stores about the future for their … Continue reading
Posted in "Hammersfield", Business, Centrale, Debenhams, House of Fraser, Whitgift Centre
Tagged Centrale, Croydon, Hammersfield, Hammerson, House of Fraser, Westfield, Whitgift Centre
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Internet can’t replace real life shopping in Surrey Street
CROYDON COMMENTARY: With Debenhams the latest Centrale department store battling for survival, reader LEWIS WHITE offers his views on the blight that is the modern, online retail experience Hindsight says that it’s a pity that Centrale was ever built. Whitgift … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Centrale, Debenhams, Surrey Street
Tagged Centrale, Croydon, Debenhams, Hammersfield, Hammerson, House of Fraser, Surrey Street, Whitgift Centre
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Centrale’s Debenhams is given a reprieve – but for how long?
Our retailing crisis correspondent, MT WALLETTE, on worrying times for employees in one of the town centre’s last remaining department stores Staff working in Debenhams in Croydon’s Centrale shopping centre were given a reprieve this morning when their store was … Continue reading
Posted in "Hammersfield", Business, Centrale, Debenhams, House of Fraser, Whitgift Centre
Tagged Centrale, Croydon, Debenhams, Hammersfield, Hammerson, Westfield, Whitgift Centre
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Debenhams administration puts Centrale store under threat
Another day, another body blow to the prospects of Croydon’s town centre getting the retail regeneration that has been promised for the past seven years or more. Today’s latest nail in the coffin for high street retailing is the news … Continue reading
Posted in "Hammersfield", Business, Centrale, Debenhams, House of Fraser, Whitgift Centre
Tagged Centrale, Debenhams, Hammersfield, Hammerson, Mike Ashley, Westfield, Whitgift Centre
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Ghosts of Christmas past come to haunt the Whitgift Centre
Were we just imagining it, or was the crackling muzak in the Whitgift Centre really playing a version of Wham!’s ‘Last Christmas’? Perhaps it was someone’s idea of a joke. Meanwhile, KEN TOWL has gone all Bob Cratchit on us … Continue reading
Posted in "Hammersfield", Allders, Business, Centrale, CPO, Ken Towl, Whitgift Centre
Tagged Centrale, Hammersfield, Hammerson, Ken Towl, Westfield, Whitgift Centre
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Grand giveaway as three schools could win Centrale’s piano
A Croydon school is about to get an early Christmas present in the form of a Yamaha baby grand piano, worth nearly 10 grand, in a special giveaway being staged at the Centrale shopping centre. And it is the Croydon … Continue reading
BRIT School is going live with town centre dance and drama
The BRIT School will be providing the entertainment for town centre shoppers with a series of pop performances this month. BRIT Presents begins later this month, a programme of outdoor showcases in public spaces, which will run through to Christmas … Continue reading
Posted in BRIT School, Business, Centrale, Croydon BID, Dance, Music, Theatre
Tagged Brit School, Centrale, North End
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Centrale is getting itself all lit-up for Christmas, Nov 15
Croydon shopping malls Centrale and Whitgift are gearing themselves for the annual Christmas business surge, with a big lights switch-on planned for 6pm at Centrale’s Christmas Tree next Thursday, November 15. This might, just, be the last Christmas when the … Continue reading
Posted in "Hammersfield", Business, Centrale, Whitgift Centre
Tagged Centrale, Whitgift Centre
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