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Charity Nickel Support is providing people with real life skills
CROYDON CHRONICLES: This week, DAVID MORGAN pays a visit to an organisation operating very much in the present, providing a future for dozens of young people It is rare that any of us don’t require some help to learn a … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Charity, David Morgan
Tagged Carshalton, charity, Cheam, Croydon, Croydon Chronicles, David Morgan, Merton, Nickel Support, Sutton, Whitehall Cheam
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Ratty’s back! Rewilding on the Hogsmill helps endangered vole
There is something of a quintessential English summer that is conjured up by Kenneth Grahame’s delightfully quaint Wind In The Willows, and the adventures of Mole, Badger, Toad and, of course, Ratty. Ratty has been described, by the Daily Torygraph, … Continue reading
Posted in Charity, Community associations, Environment, Epsom and Ewell, Kingston, Outside Croydon, Surrey, Thames Water, Wildlife
Tagged Chamber Meads, Chamber Meads wetlands, Cheam, Citizen Zoo, Epsom and Ewell, Ewell, Kingston, South East Rivers Trust, water voles, Wildwood Trust, Wind In The Willows
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Thousands left without water as SES crisis enters third day
A ‘critical valve’ has left thousands of people across south-west London and Surrey without reliable water supplies, affecting a major hospital and forcing schools to close. BERTIE WORCESTER-PARK reports Up to 4,000 households across Carshalton, Sutton, Cheam, Epsom and even … Continue reading
Post Office scandal: ‘I wept for a few hours’ says Tory MP
Millions of television viewers have been horrified by the impact of the Horizon IT scandal, brought to their screens this week in a shocking mini-series. According to one MP, the government can’t do enough for ‘those who have been pummeled … Continue reading
Exasperated MP Scully sorely wounded by the ‘Spanish archer’
MP Paul Scully won’t be writing a political memoir. He says he’s already recounted all of his ministerial career in 13 tweets, posted just after 8.30 last night, when he revealed he’d been sacked (“got the Spanish archer”, as he … Continue reading
£20,000 reward offered to solve 33-year Lee Boxell mystery
Crimestoppers have today offered a £20,000 reward for information which could finally solve a missing person’s case that goes back 33 years. Lee Boxell was 15 years old when he disappeared from near his home in Cheam in 1988, never … Continue reading
EastEnders star Kemp to front Children’s Trust TV appeal
Martin Kemp, the former star of Spandau Ballet and EastEnders, will be back on our television screens this Sunday, fronting an appeal for a south London-based children’s charity. The Children’s Trust, based in Tadworth and with charity shops in Cheam, … Continue reading
Posted in Charity
Tagged Cheam, EastEnders, Martin Kemp, Purley, Spandau Ballet, The Children's Trust
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Digging into the history of Cheam’s pottery industry
The next illustrated talk at the Croydon Natural History and Scientific Society, taking place on Monday, May 16, will be on the discoveries of evidence for a medieval pottery industry in nearby Cheam, given by Clive Orton of Carshalton and … Continue reading
Sutton official tried to influence vote at incinerator meeting
An audio clip, obtained from the official Sutton Council recording of last week’s controversial planning meeting for the £1 billion incinerator scheme at Beddington Lane, shows that a council official intervened with the meeting chairman to try to force a … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Clare Hilley, Croydon Greens, Environment, Simon Hoar, Stuart Collins, Sutton Council, Waddon, Waste incinerator
Tagged Cheam, Conservatives, Croydon, Incineration, John Leach, Liberal Democrats, London, Sutton
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